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7
Population of the District of Finchley.
According to the Census returns of 1901, the population
of the District amounted to 22,126. The Census returns,
however, give the figures of the population at the end of the
first quarter of the year, whereas for purposes of calculating
the vital statistics, the population in the middle of the
year must be taken. Now if the rate of increase in the
population which took place between the last two Census
returns is assumed to have been maintained up to the middle
of last year, one arrives, by a logarithmetical calculation, at
an estimated population of 23,662 for the middle of last
year. I am confident, however, that this figure is an underestimate
of the population, which has shown an increase during
the past two or three years very largely in excess of that which
occurred in the first eight years which elapsed between the
two last Census enumerations. By a consideration of the
number of occupied houses in the District in the middle of last
year, and by allotting to these the average number of persons
found to be occupying each house at the last Census, I estimate
the population to be about 24,125, and it is on this
figure that the rates in this Report are based.
The approximate population for each of the subdistricts
is as follows:-
East Finchley 9,105
North Finchley 5,450
West Finchley 6,650
Whetstone 2,920
24,125