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SECTION A.
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area (acres) .. .. .. .. .. .. 5,161
Population (Census, 1931) .. .. .. .. 23,646
Population (Mid-year, 1937) Registrar-General's
Estimate : Working Population Figure .. .. 39,770
Present estimated population at 3.75 persons per
house .. .. .. .. .. .. 44,419
Number of inhabited houses end of 1937 .. .. 11,845
Rateable value .. .. .. .. .. £273,872
Sum represented by a penny rate .. .. Gross £1,079
Net (Est.) £986
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The Urban District of Hayes and Harlington is about eight
square miles in extent and lies in the western part of Middlesex.
It is made up of the parishes of Hayes and Harlington and that
portion of Cranford which lies to the west of the River Crane.
Its height above sea-level is 182 feet in the north-western part
of the district and 70 feet in the south-eastern part.
There does not appear to be any halt in the building development
of the district; in fact, this is proceeding with even greater
rapidity than formerly, 1,997 houses having been added during
1937.
A few farms remain in the area, but these are steadily being
encroached upon for building ; those that remain are chiefly
used for keeping dairy cattle. Market gardening takes up the
bulk of the remaining land. About 345 acres (6.7 per cent.)
are scheduled as open spaces.
The population is chiefly industrial, the bulk of the inhabitants
finding employment either in the local or in the neighbouring
factories. Unemployment has increased by 22 per cent, during
the year, the average number per month being 843 as compared
with 691 in 1936.
As most of the houses in this Urban District have been built
since the war, they are nearly all in good condition. 1,485
houses are owned by the Council, some of them being in process
of building in 1937. These were chiefly bungalows built to
house old people without families, and are let at a rental of
five shillings per week inclusive of rates.
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