London Borough of Ealing

This page covers the whole London Borough of Ealing, official code E09000009, using the Office for National Statistics December 2025 full-resolution, full-extent boundary. Every polygon component and any interior exclusion in the source is retained. Neighbouring boroughs and all land outside the outline are excluded. A postcode, ward, locality or town-centre search covers a different scope and cannot replace this borough report. Use the visible outline when checking an address near an edge: familiar place names and postal labels do not decide which approximate published crime locations fall within the selected area.

Ealing Council's community website identifies seven towns in the borough: Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale and Southall. It describes each as having its own local identity, character and community priorities, and links to town information and voluntary groups. This distinction matters when reading a page called Ealing. Ealing town and its shopping centre are parts of a wider borough that also includes the other six towns. This page uses the complete administrative outline, so a combined total is not a result for Ealing Broadway or for one town alone. Use the council's town pages to explore local services and participation.

The council's local history account describes scattered settlements and farming before nineteenth-century growth changed Ealing. The Great Western Railway and the opening of Ealing Broadway station in 1838 helped connect the area with London. Subsequent housebuilding, roads, drainage, schools and civic buildings accompanied the town's development. The account identifies Charles Jones as borough surveyor from 1863 to 1913 and discusses his work on local town halls. It also records Walpole Park's opening and electric trams on the Uxbridge Road in 1901. This history concerns Ealing town's development and should not be treated as a complete history of all seven towns in the present borough.

Ealing's heritage directory points to a combination of historic buildings, conservation areas, municipal parks, woodland, canals and ancient monuments. It provides separate routes to information on listed buildings, locally listed buildings and conservation areas. Those designations help readers research the character of a particular setting, but they describe different things and do not replace the borough boundary. The council's history account notes that Lammas Park and Walpole Park retained open land as surrounding development expanded. These connections between buildings and landscape are useful local context. They are not evidence that every historic or green setting shares the same pattern of recorded incidents.

The Local History Centre is the archive for the London Borough of Ealing and is based at the Dominion Centre and Library on The Green in Southall. Its council page describes archival records, photographs, books and microfilms, with links to family-history sources, local resources and the Martinware Collection. This is a useful reminder that borough-wide institutions are not all located in Ealing town. Researchers can use dated records to explore how individual areas changed, while checking opening arrangements and research requirements with the centre. Historical photographs or an archive's remit explain local history; they do not define the current map polygon or establish a crime trend.

The council's parks service covers open spaces and nature-conservation areas as well as allotments, cemeteries, playgrounds and sports pitches. Its directory links to individual parks, park rangers, nature conservation, maintenance information and Hanwell Zoo. Start with the specific entry for the destination you want to use, and check rules, facilities and accessibility there. The borough's towns and green spaces provide different everyday settings, so consider your actual journey between home, transport and services when exploring the map. A broad borough total combines those settings and cannot explain the experience of every street, household or person who travels through them.

The default period is March to August 2026, the six complete imported Police.uk months checked for this borough. Published street locations are approximate; reporting delays, unavailable records and coverage gaps limit interpretation. Raw totals are not personal safety scores. Plus adds monthly, category, outcome and repeated-location detail for the same full borough polygon and selected dates. The linked shared methodology explains the data limitations and map and report tools.