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POPULATION
The Registrar-General's estimated mid-year population of the borough was 202,560, a
decrease of 2,000 from last year's figures. This is a continuation of the downward trend
which has occurred since 1947.
Births exceeded deaths by 1,458, so that as the estimated population decrease was
2,000, the net estimated movement of residents out of the borough amounted to 3,458
persons.
The density of population is 41.54 persons per acre.
The estimated child population is as follows:-
Under 1 year 1-4 years 5-14 years
15 years
3690 13610 28800 46100
The Registrar-General has published results of an attempt to subdivide the estimates
of net civilian migration into movements wholly within England and Wales and movements
involving other countries.
It is reported that perhaps the most significant feature of the estimates of net
migration is the balanced position for the South East Standard Region. It is clear from
these figures that there is not, and has not been for the last five years, any drift of
population from the remainder of England and Wales to the South East Standard Region.
Estimates for a region as a whole necessarily conceal differences within that region,
and this is particularly significant in the South East. The balanced position for the
region as a whole conceals an overall net outflow of some eighty seven thousand persons
from Greater London. Furthermore, as Greater London is estimated to have gained thirty
thousand persons from outside England and Wales, a net movement from Greater London to the
rest of the country (including other parts of the South East) of some one hundred and
seventeen thousand persons is estimated.
The South East has an average birth rate (a low rate in London off-setting high
rates elsewhere in the region) and a low death rate. The crude death rate in the remainder
of the region outside the Metropolitan Area is high, though not so high as the high
proportion of older persons (especially in the coastal towns) might suggest; but it is
offset by the low rate in London and - particularly - the Outer Metropolitan Area.
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