Brent
WardNorth Somerset. About 10,419 people in 90 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 36% of people in Brent live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brent compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brent safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brent at a rate of 59.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 90.4 per 1,000 people across Somerset.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 78 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brent.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (303), other crime (145) and anti-social behaviour (51).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Somerset
These figures are published for the whole of Somerset, not for each ward, so they describe all of Somerset and not Brent alone. See Somerset
Brent in brief
Brent had 10,097 usual residents at the census.
About 36% of people in Brent live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brent, 89.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Brent, 1.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.