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cent, of the families are in undivided occupation of separate dwellings.
Islington is the only other borough with more than two
families per dwelling (2.12) on the average. In both boroughs,
however, the dwellings are larger and the families smaller than in
the rest of the county, the combination of these factors improving
their relative positions as evidenced by the ratio of rooms to
persons.
The average size of families in the several Boroughs varies from
4.26 to 3.12 persons. The biggest are found in the poorer boroughs
in the following order: Stepney (4.26 persons per family), Poplar
(4.19), Bethnal Green (4.14), Greenwich (4.10), and Bermondsey
(4.08); the smallest is Holborn (3.12), City (3.31), Westminster
(3.31), St. Marylebone (3.33), Paddington (3.43), and St. Pancras
(3.45). In every Borough the families of 1921 are smaller than
they were in 1911, the reductions varying from about 6 per cent,
to 14 per cent. As compared with 1911, the density figure shows
an improvement in every borough with the exception of Greenwich.
Hammersmith and Stoke Newington.
The particulars contained in the Census Returns relating to
buildings, dwellings, rooms and families in Battersea as compared
with the County of London will next be found of interest.
The total number of structurally separate occupied dwellings
in the Borough according to the recent census is 27,191, containing
157,323 occupied rooms, with an average of .96 rooms per person.

Of the nine institutions containing dwellings the population
at date of census was 2,778.
The number of unoccupied dwellings was 523 containing 2,863
rooms.
Analysing the dwellings occupied by private families in Battersea,
it is shown that slightly more than half the total dwellings
(15,297) contain six to eight rooms, 8,648 four to five rooms, 1,931
one to three rooms, and 1,740 have nine or more rooms.