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11.9 per cent, of the population are aged 65 or over, as
compared to 11.1 per cent, so aged for the County. 14.5 per cent,
of the population are aged 14 or less and 47.4 per cent .are between
the ages of 15 and 44, with 26.2 per cent, aged 45 to 64. The total
number of school children is lower than the average which is about
20 per cent. The City of London, Holborn, St. Marylebone and
Westminster also have a lower proportion of school children.
Place of Birth.
A total of 19,349 people were born outside the United Kingdom
and the Irish Republic and Table III shows the totals from each
continent.
Of these, 3,699 came from Commonwealth countries and from the
Colonies. The proportion of the population who are immigrants
(20 per cent.) is higher in Hampstead than in the County of London,
(7.1 per cent.) and this figure itself is nearly 2 ½ times the
proportion for the country as a whole.
A large part of this excess of London over the remainder
of the country is accounted for by the increase of numbers of
Commonwealth and Colonial born persons. 62.5 per cent, of the
present population of London were born in London, but it is
calculated that below 45 per cent, of the population of Hampstead
were born in Hampstead.
Social Class.
The Registrar General divides the working population into
five social classes, which are constituted approximately as
follows:-
Social Class 1 - Professional etc. occupations.
" " 2 - Intermediate occupations.
" " 3 " Skilled occupations.
" " 4 - Partly skilled occupations.
" "5 - Unskilled occupations.
The total figures for each class and the proportions per
1,000 of the total are shown in Table IV.
As is the case in the County and in all the Metropolitan
Boroughs, the biggest proportion of the male population over
15 occurs in class 3 and in Hampstead the second largest class
is class 2, followed by class 1. This distribution only occurs
in Chelsea, Kensington and St. Marylebone. Hampstead has a
low proportion of classes 4 and 5 (15.4 per cent.). This figure
is the lowest amongst all the Metropolitan Boroughs, the average
for the County of London being 28 .8 per cent. This distribution
ties up with the other findings in this report. The relatively
low density of the population and the lower proportion of children