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These tables give a good indication of certain of the special features
of the population of the City. It is essentially an older population, the
average age being 35.5 years for males and 36.9 for females, as compared
with the averages for the whole County of 32.0 and 33.9 The preponderance
of females over males is above the average for the County, and
the proportion of single persons, especially females, is high. The last
facts, and the greater number of married women who are over childbearing
age in an older population, account largely for a low birth-rate.
The relatively very low proportion of children in the population is due
to this low birth-rate, and to the fact that the larger families are particularly
apt to move away from Central London. The City offiers much
employment to single persons in resident posts as hotel, club or domestic
servants, and to married couples without children as caretakers. 17.2 per
cent, of the population recorded in the Census were resident in hotels,
boarding houses and lodging houses, as compared with 3.6 over the
whole County.