Editing London Borough of Harrow (section)

==Demographics==
[[File:Harrow population pyramid.svg|thumb|Population pyramid Harrow in 2021]]

===Location===
Its site on and near the green belt and ease of access to [[central London]] (20 minutes by train to [[Marylebone railway station|Marylebone]] and 12 minutes to [[Euston railway station|Euston]] via [[West Midlands Trains]]) make Harrow a convenient place to live. Rising property prices in all London areas have helped to see a large increase in property redevelopment of its existing Edwardian and 1920s to 1940s housing stock.

===Ethnicity===
[[File:Ethnic makeup of Harrow by single year ages in 2021.svg|thumb|Ethnic makeup of Harrow by single year ages in 2021]]
Harrow is a diverse borough, having 63.8% of its population from the BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) communities, with the largest group being of Indian ethnicity (specifically those from [[Gujarat]] and [[South India]]). The borough can also claim to have the largest concentration of [[Sri Lankan Tamil people|Sri Lankan Tamils]] in the UK and Ireland as well as having the highest density of [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] [[Hindus]] in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/gangs/projects/harrow/index.jsp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184646/http://www.london.gov.uk/gangs/projects/harrow/index.jsp|url-status=dead|title=London against gun and knife crime|archivedate=30 September 2007}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
! rowspan="3" |Ethnic Group
! colspan="12" |Year
|-
! colspan="2" |1971 estimations<ref>{{Cite web |title=Migration and London's growth |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/74375221.pdf#page=94 |publisher=LSE}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1981 estimations<ref>{{Cite book |last=Surveys |first=Great Britain Office of Population Censuses and |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zcIAQAAMAAJ |title=Ethnicity in the 1991 Census: Demographic characteristics of the ethnic minority populations |date=1996 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |isbn=978-0-11-691655-6 |language=en}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1991 census<ref>{{Cite book |last=Surveys |first=Great Britain Office of Population Censuses and |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zcIAQAAMAAJ |title=Ethnicity in the 1991 Census: Demographic characteristics of the ethnic minority populations |date=1996 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |isbn=978-0-11-691655-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1991 census – theme tables |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/asv2htm.aspx |access-date=20 January 2017 |publisher=NOMIS}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2001 census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/submit.asp?forward=yes&menuopt=201&subcomp= |title=KS006 - Ethnic group  |publisher=NOMIS |access-date=30 January 2016}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2011 census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/QS201EW/view/1946157259?cols=measures |title=Ethnic Group by measures |publisher=NOMIS |access-date=8 January 2016}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2021 census<ref>{{cite web |title=Ethnic group - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS021/editions/2021/versions/1/filter-outputs/d2f0a39a-75b6-4995-b4bd-a5b68ff79027#get-data |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}</ref>
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
![[White people in the United Kingdom|White]]: Total
!–
!95.8%
!164,781
!85%
!149,689
!73.4%
!121,543
!58.77%
!100,991
!42.07%
!95,233
!36.46%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[White British|British]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 103,207 || 49.90% || 73,826 || 30.8% || 53,567 || 20.51%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[White Irish|Irish]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 9,057 || 4.38% || 7,336 || 3.0% || 5,608 || 2.15%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[White Gypsy or Irish Traveller|Gypsy or Irish Traveller]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| –|| –|| 181 || 0.07% || 179 || 0.07%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[Other White|Other]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 9,279 || 4.49% || 19,648 || 8.2% || 34,458 || 13.19%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[British Asian|Asian or Asian British]]: Total 
!–
!–
!22,223
!11.4%
!42,732
!21%!! 61,314 !! 29.65% !!101,808 !! 42.2% !! 118,152 !! 45.23%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Indians|Indian]]
|–
|–
|17,515
|9%
|33,246
| 16.3%|| 45,310 || 21.91% || 63,051 || 26.3% || 74,744 || 28.62%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Pakistanis|Pakistani]]
|–
|–
|1,395
|
|2,406
| || 4,317|| 2.09% || 7,797 || 3.2% || 10,264 || 3.93%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Bangladeshis|Bangladeshi]]
|–
|–
|290
|
|552
| || 953 || 0.46% || 1,378 || 0.5% || 1,820 || 0.70%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Chinese|Chinese]]
|–
|–
|1,003
|
|1,854
| || 2,567 || 1.24% || 2,629 || 1.0% || 2,784 || 1.07%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 
|–
|–
|2,020
|
|4,674
| || 10,734 || 5.19% || 26,953 || 11.2% || 28,540 || 10.93%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Black British people|Black or Black British]]: Total 
!–
!–
!4,724
!2.4%
!7,664
! 3.8%!! 12,703 !! 6.14% !!19,708 !! 8.1% !! 19,151 !! 7.33%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: [[British African-Caribbean people|African]]
|–
|–
|941
|
|1,731
| || 5,656 || 2.73% || 8,526 || 3.5% || 10,584 || 4.05%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: [[British African-Caribbean people|Caribbean]]
|–
|–
|2,857
|1.5%
|4,537
| 2.2%|| 6,116 || 2.96% || 6,812 || 2.8% || 6,514 || 2.49%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: [[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom|Other Black]]
|–
|–
|926
|
|1,396
| || 931 || 0.45% || 4,370 || 1.8% || 2053 || 0.79%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed or British Mixed]]: Total 
!–
!–
!–
!–
!–
!–!! 5,840 !! 2.82% !!9,499 !! 3.8% !! 9,833 !! 3.76%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Black Caribbean 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 1,371 || 0.66% || 2,344 || 0.9% || 2,187 || 0.84%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Black African 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 633 || 0.31% || 1,053 || 0.4% || 1,104 || 0.42%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Asian 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 2,018 || 0.98% || 3,417 || 1.4% || 3,140 || 1.20%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: Other Mixed 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 1,818 || 0.88% || 2,685 || 1.1% || 3,402 || 1.30%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Other: Total 
!–
!–
!2,208
!1.1%
!3,714
! 1.8%!! 2,847 !! 1.38% !!7,050 !! 2.8% !! 18,836 !! 7.21%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Other: Arab 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| –|| –|| 3,708 || 1.5% || 6,239 || 2.39%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Other: Any other ethnic group 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 2,847 || 1.38% || 3,342 || 1.3% || 12,597 || 4.82%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Ethnic minority: Total 
!–
!4.8%
!29,155
!15%
!54,110
!26.6%!! 85,271 !! 41.23% !!138,065 !! 57.93% !! 165,972 !! 63.54%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Total 
!–
!100%
!193,936 
!100%
!203,799
!100%!! 206,814 !! 100.00% !! 239,056 !! 100.00% !! 261,205 !! 100.00%
|}

{{Historical populations
|type = UK
|title = Population
|footnote = Source: [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10064028&c_id=10001043&add=N ''A Vision of Britain through time, citing Census population'']
|1801|3240
|1811|3969
|1821|4383
|1831|5342
|1841|5829
|1851|5980
|1861|7424
|1871|8869
|1881|10313
|1891|12231
|1901|22683
|1911|42065
|1921|64431
|1931|98694
|1941|146617
|1951|217811
|1961|210424
|1971|203309
|1981|196147
|1991|203769
|2001|207389
|2011|239056
}}

Wards with the highest white British population were:
*Pinner
*Pinner South (a long-stretched ward covering Pinner Village, the area west of North Harrow and Rayners Lane, and east of [[Eastcote]])
*Stanmore Park (an area mostly covering [[Stanmore]])

The lowest wards meanwhile were:
*Kenton East (the area west of Honeypot Lane, bordering Kenton Lane),
*Queensbury (the area north of the station, around Honeypot Lane)

Since 2005, on the last Sunday in June Harrow Council hosts ''Under One Sky'' - Harrow's largest festival, to celebrate and the joint communities of Harrow. This has a programme of dance, world music, sports activity, youth music, spoken word, free children's activity, a carnival parade, information and stalls, health promotion, a world food zone and outside radio broadcast.

===Religion===
{{Pie chart
| caption=Faith in Harrow (2021)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS031/editions/2021/versions/1|title=Religion - Religion in England and Wales (detailed dataset including Jain: Census 2021, ONS}}</ref>
| label1 = [[History of Christianity in Britain|Christian]]
| value1 = 33.9 | color1 = Dodgerblue
| label2 = [[Hinduism in the United Kingdom|Hindu]]
| value2 = 25.8 | color2 = darkorange
| label3 = [[Islam in the United Kingdom|Muslim]]
| value3 = 15.9| color3 = green
| label4 = [[Irreligion in the United Kingdom|No Religion]]
| value4 = 10.6 | color4 = honeydew
| label5 = [[Judaism in the United Kingdom|Jewish]]
| value5 = 2.8 | color5 = turquoise
| label6 = [[Jainism in the United Kingdom|Jain]]
| value6 = 2.4 | color6 = darkorchid
| label7 = [[Buddhism in the United Kingdom|Buddhist]]
| value7 = 1.1 | color7 = goldenrod
| label8 = [[Sikhism in the United Kingdom|Sikh]]
| value8 = 1.1 | color8 = yellow
| label9 = Other Religions
| value9 = 0.5 | color9 = deeppink
|color10=lightgrey|value10=5.9|label10=Religion not Stated}}
[[File:Hindu Temple, Kenton, Harrow - geograph.org.uk - 98989.jpg|thumb|[[Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, London (Harrow)]]]]
Harrow is the most religiously diverse local authority area in the UK, with a 62% chance that two random people are from different religions, according to Office for National Statistics, October 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/eth1006.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=9 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070109002329/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/eth1006.pdf |archive-date=9 January 2007  }}. National Statistics. Retrieved 8 October 2006.</ref> According to the 2011 census, 25.3% of Harrow's population identified themselves as Hindu - the highest in the UK. A large number of [[Jewish]] people live in [[Stanmore]] and [[Hatch End]]. The [[Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue]], until 2019, boasted the largest membership of any single [[synagogue]] in the whole of [[Europe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Israel/Partnerships/Regions/Kavimut/Britain+Communities/Stanmore+11.htm|title=Partnership2Gether|website=The Jewish Agency|access-date=19 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426075317/http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Israel/Partnerships/Regions/Kavimut/Britain+Communities/Stanmore+11.htm|archive-date=26 April 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Harrow also has a sizable Muslim community, about 1 in 10 of its population.

As per the 2011 census, Harrow has a larger than average Jewish, Hindu and Muslim population.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2" | Religion
! colspan="2" |1995 estimates<ref>{{Cite web |title=A PROFILE OF BRITISH JEWRY - 1995 |url=https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/a_pr/A%20PROFILE%20OF%20BRITISH%20JEWRY.pdf |page=12}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2021 census<ref>{{cite web |title=Religion - Religion in England and Wales: Census 2021, ONS |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/religion/bulletins/religionenglandandwales/census2021}}</ref>
|-
!Population
!%
!Population
!%
|-
|Christianity
|–
|–
|
|33.9
|-
|Hinduism
|–
|–
|
|25.8
|-
|Islam
|–
|–
|
|15.9
|-
|Judaism
|14,100
|7%
|
|2.8
|-
|Jainism
|–
|–
|
|2.4
|-
|Buddhism
|–
|–
|
|1.1
|-
|Sikhism
|–
|–
|
|1.1
|-
|No religion
|–
|–
|
|10.6
|-
|Religion not stated
|–
|–
|
|5.9
|}

===Other===
In a national detailed Land Use Survey by the [[Office for National Statistics]] in 2005 it was found that the London Borough of Harrow had the second highest proportion of land being domestic gardens: 34.7% of all 326 districts in England; this compared with the [[London Borough of Sutton]]'s 35.1% (highest proportion nationally) and [[Bournemouth]]'s 34.6%.<ref name=ons>[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005] published alongside the data of the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]] see Physical Environment.</ref>