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SECTION A.
Statistics and Social Conditions
of the Area.
Area (in acres) 8,970 (14 sq miles approx.)
Population 25,170
Number of inhabited houses 7,884
Number of separate families or separate occupiers
—not available
Rateable value £245,179
Sum represented by a penny rate £980
The rate in the pound for 1945/46 is 15/4
The district comprises roughly 5½ miles of the
Roding Valley with much open forest and farm land.
The soil is clay with pockets of gravel on the higher
ground. There must inevitably in the near future be
encroachment on what is at present open space, but
the Abercrombie Report suggests an optimum population
of 50,000; this figure, however, does not take into
account the full extent of the new L.C.C. Estates in
Loughton and Chigwell and a total population of about
60,000 must be envisaged at no distant date.
There is a large dormitory population in the district,
but many persons are employed locally in agriculture,
railways and transport and local factories and
business premises.

Birth rate per 1,000 estimated resident population 17.7
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