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GENERAL STATISTICS
Area in Acres 29,650
Population (Registrar-General's Estimate 252,860
for Mid 1969)
Number of dwellings as at 31.12.69 79,993
Rateable value as at 31.12.69 £12,709,500
Estimated product of a Penny Rate £50,000
The natural increase in population (3,898 births less
2,186 deaths) gives a net figure of 1,712, but as the Registrar
General's population estimate of 252,860 is only 570 higher than
the 1967 figure, movement of population away from Havering, as
compared with those who moved into the Borough, must account
for the difference of 1,142.
Of the 33 Authorities comprising the Greater London area,
only 5 showed an increase in population over the previous year
namely City of London, Bexley, Havering, Hillingdon and Sutton.
The net 1969 population of the Greater London area — 7,703,410 —
was 60,410 lower than the same figure for 1968, but this compares
with a decrease of 149,780 between 1967 and 1968 and tends to
indicate that the movement of population away from the London
area may be slowing down. Possible confirmation of this is
shown in the population figures for adjacent areas in Essex —
Basildon U.D., Brentwood U.D. and Thurrock U.D., where the
combined population rose by 7,080 between 1967 and 1968, but
only increased by 4,490 between 1968 and 1969.