[2] Originally a mediaeval hamlet, the St John Baptist church dates from the 14th century and other parts of the historic village include Tudor buildings.

[3]: 34  The earliest surviving private dwelling, East End Farm Cottage, dates from the late fifteenth century.

[3]: 176–184  It was largely from this time onwards that the area (including Hatch End, which forms the northeastern part of Pinner) assumed much of its present-day suburban character.

[5] Pinner lay within the historic county of Middlesex; it was located at the western end of the hundred of Gore, before it was in the Hendon Rural District.

[7] Pinner's St John the Baptist parish church was consecrated in 1321, but built on the site of an earlier Christian place of worship.

Pinner is in the Brent and Harrow constituency for the London Assembly which has been represented since 2024 by Krupesh Hirani (Labour).

Pinner Memorial Park has a large house in it which includes a museum to Illustrator Heath Robinson as well as a cafe which hosts regular music events throughout the summer; while Roxbourne Gardens also hosts a pop-up cafe and music venue on Sundays year-round.

Pinner is both a religiously and culturally mixed area, with the ethnic minority population having grown significantly since the 1970s.

[11] Pinner ward nonetheless had the highest concentration of people describing themselves as white in the London Borough of Harrow, at 72 per cent of the population in 2011.

[14] Pinner holds a number of Fairs and Fetes that are renowned in North West London for bringing its diverse and cosmopolitan community together.

In normal off-peak conditions it roughly takes three-quarters of an hour to Euston railway station.

London's blue plaques scheme, run by English Heritage,[66] celebrates the links between notable figures of the past and the buildings in which they lived and worked.