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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Area in acres 6,300
Population, 1937 (Midsummer)—
Estimated by Registrar-General 114,700
Population (Census) 1931—
Wembley 48,561
Kingsbury 16,636
65,197
Estimated number of inhabited houses at end of
1937 29,480
Rateable value—31st December, 1937 £1,271,714
Sum represented by the product of a Penny Rate
(estimated) £4,661
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Industries.—There has been little change in the social
conditions of the area during the year. The industries may,
for the most part, be described as of a light engineering type;
for example, electrical and wireless apparatus, carburettors,
baking and laundry machinery are made. Various food
products are manufactured in the district; fibre board and paper
goods, cosmetics and motor accessories are produced. There
are heating and ventilating engineering works, printing works
and laundries. According to the present information of the
Department, there are 270 factories in Wembley and 70 other
premises meantime known as work-shops which will, under the
new Factories Act, 1937, on the 1st July, 1938, become factories.
Unemployment.—Owing to Wembley's geographical
position, many of the persons employed in industry may live in
London or the surrounding districts, while many of those who
live in Wembley work outside the Borough. Any problem of
unemployment in Wembley then, is really part of a larger
problem affecting the metropolitan area or, at any rate, the
North Western area of Greater London.
The following figures have been kindly supplied by the
Managers of the Employment Labour Exchanges serving the
Borough:—
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