Editing Edgware (section)

==Demography and religion==
{| class="wikitable" align="right" style=font-size:85%;margin-left:10px; 
|+'''Edgware (parish) population'''
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 1881
| style="text-align:center;"| 816
|-  
! style="text-align:center;"| 1891
| style="text-align:center;"| 864
|-  
! style="text-align:center;"| 1901 
| style="text-align:center;"| 868
|-  
! style="text-align:center;"| 1911 
| style="text-align:center;"| 1,233
|- 
! style="text-align:center;"| 1921 
| style="text-align:center;"| 1,516
|-
| colspan=2| Absorbed by Hendon parish [[Hendon|►]]
|- 
| colspan="2" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"|source: [[Census#United Kingdom|UK census]]
|}
[[File:Edgware station menorah.JPG|thumb|right|[[Hanukkah]] [[Menorah (Hanukkah)|menorah]] outside [[Edgware tube station|Edgware Underground station]], 2006]]
Until the 20th century there were no major rises in the population of Edgware. In the [[Manorialism|manor]] of Edgware in 1277 there were eight free tenants (excluding the Grand Priory of Clerkenwell) and 52 customary tenants (assumed to all be men); the survey from which these figures are taken, however, includes lands appurtenant to the manor lying in Kingsbury. In 1425–26 the manor of Edgware had three free and 29 customary tenants in the parish, and in 1525–26 the numbers were two or three free and 26 customary tenants. In 1547 there were 120 (adult or teenage) [[Holy Communion|communicants]] in the parish. In 1597 there were between 60 and 70 houses in the parish, and 44 more in the village of Edgware but on the west side of Watling Street and therefore in the parish of [[Little Stanmore]]. In 1599 there were six free and 25 customary tenants of the manor within Edgware. In 1642 in the [[English Civil War|Civil War]] the [[Protestation of 1641|protestation]] oath of 1641 was taken by 103 adult males. In 1664 there were 73 houses in the parish, but the [[hearth tax]] of 1672 gives only 66. During the 18th century the average numbers both of baptisms and burials declined gently but steadily; in the period 1717–26 the average number of baptisms was between 15 and 16 a year and the average number of burials 20, but by 1801–10 the figures were 11 and 9, respectively. There were said to be 69 houses in the village in 1766 and 76 houses in 1792. At the first census in 1801 the population was 412. Throughout the 19th century numbers rose slowly, except for the years between 1851 and 1871; the censuses of 1861 and 1871 show successive declines of 7 percent, attributed in 1871 to migration and to the absence of direct trains to London.<ref name="bh" />

Ten years later the losses had been more than made good, and in 1901 the figure of 868 had been reached. By 1921 the population had grown to 1,516, but the great infilling of the southern part of Edgware after 1924 caused the most spectacular increase. In 1931 the population was 5,352; this had increased to 17,513 by 1951 and to 20,127 by 1961.<ref name="bh" />

As well as Christian and subsequent settling of other religious groups, Edgware's development coincided with that of its Jewish community,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22460 |title=Edgware: Jews |editor1-first=T. F. T. |editor1-last=Baker |editor2-first=J. S. |editor2-last=Cockburn |editor3-first=R. B. |editor3-last=Pugh |author1-first=Diane K. |author1-last=Bolton |author2-first=H. P. F. |author2-last=King |author3-first=Gillian |author3-last=Wyld |author4-first=D. C. |author4-last=Yaxley |work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4 |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1971 |access-date=5 November 2014 }}</ref> currently forming the largest single religious group.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-first-eruv-enclave-for-jews-divides-local-opinion-638639.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302190538/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-first-eruv-enclave-for-jews-divides-local-opinion-638639.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 March 2009 |title= Britain's first 'eruv' enclave for Jews divides local opinion | newspaper=The Independent |date= 3 August 2002 |access-date=26 February 2009 | location=London | first=Cahal | last=Milmo}}</ref> In the 2001 Census, 36% of Edgware residents give their religion as Jewish, 28% Christian, 9% Hindu and 5% Muslim.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.barnet.gov.uk/census-profile-edgware.pdf |title=see Barnet Census Profile |access-date=30 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062412/http://www.barnet.gov.uk/census-profile-edgware.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Jewish community in Edgware has constructed its own [[Eruv]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edgwareeruv.org |title=The Edgware Eruv |publisher=The Edgware Eruv |date=17 October 2006 |access-date=30 June 2011}}</ref>

Edgware has a strong Jewish character, and also has significant Hindu and Muslim minorities, mostly of Indian origin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/edgware/|title = Edgware - Hidden London}}</ref>

According to the 2011 census:

*Edgware ward of Barnet was 60% white (47% British, 12% Other White, 1% Irish). 13% was Indian and 7% Black African. 33% of the population was Jewish, 28% Christian and 11% Muslim. The most spoken foreign language is Gujarati.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/edgware-e05000050|title=Edgware – UK Census Data 2011|first=Good Stuff IT|last=Services|website=UK Census Data|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=11 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111142659/http://www.ukcensusdata.com/edgware-e05000050|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Hale ward of Barnet (east from the centre) was 59% white (45% British, 12% Other, 2% Irish) and 10% Indian. 39% was Christian and 19% Jewish. The most spoken foreign language is Gujarati followed by Persian and Romanian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/hale-e05000054|title=Hale – UK Census Data 2011|first=Good Stuff IT|last=Services|website=UK Census Data|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=11 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111142656/http://www.ukcensusdata.com/hale-e05000054|url-status=dead}}</ref>