Rent in HA8, London

HA8 is a postcode district mostly in Barnet (it also reaches into Brent, Harrow), with wards including Burnt Oak, Canons, Centenary, Edgware. A two-bedroom home here rents for a median £1,700 a month, −6% against the Barnet figure and −17% against London as a whole.

Rent by home size

HomeHA8BarnetLondonRents recorded
1 bedroom£1,350£1,486£1,68430
2 bedrooms£1,700£1,800£2,03680
3 bedrooms£2,225£2,350£2,47250
4+ bedrooms£2,850£3,425£3,35310

Median monthly rent of private lets recorded by Rent Officers between April 2025 and March 2026. Counts are rounded to the nearest 10; with few rents a single expensive or cheap flat moves the median, and ONS advises caution when comparing areas. The London column is an average of the borough figures weighted by the number of rents. Source: ONS – Private rental market in London, April 2025 to March 2026.

Wards in HA8 include

Burnt Oak · Canons · Centenary · Edgware · Edgwarebury · Queensbury

Who lives in Barnet

Census 2021, whole borough (Barnet vs London). Postcode districts have no census figures of their own.

Owner-occupied homes53.7%46.8%
Private rentals32.7%30.0%
Social housing rentals13.5%23.1%
One-person households28.0%29.3%
Children under 1519.3%18.1%
Aged 65 and over14.4%11.9%

Nearby postcode districts

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