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9
Census. 1961
The Report for the County of London on the Census of population
taken in 1961, reveals the following information with regard to this
Borough.
The population has decreased by 6,858 since the last census in
1951, equivalent to a reduction of 0.71% per annum which is the
approximate mean for the County. During the intercensal period
1931-51, the population decrease in Stepney was the highest in London,
namely 4.05% per annum. The excess of births over deaths for the last
ten years would have given an increase of population of 0.69% per annum;
the indication is that there was an annual emigration from the Borough
of 1.4% of the population.
Of the total population of the Borough enumerated in the Census
6,550 resided in hotels, hostels, old people's homes, and other
miscellaneous establishments.
The number of private households in the Borough has decreased by
635, whilst the number of structurally separate dwellings has increased
by 1,629. Of the 26,524 dwellings in the Borough, 10,141 are Local
Authority owned. The density of persons per room is 0.86%, as compared
with 0.94% for 1951. The percentage of persons at more than
1½ per room is 16.2, the fourth highest in the metropolitan area.
Households numbering 5,212, equivalent to 18% of the total, live
in shared dwellings. Buildings containing more than one dwelling
number 2,076.
Households without cold water supply in the dwelling number 232
(0.8%), without hot water supply 15,830 (54.2%), without fixed bath
16,530 (56.6%) and without a water-closet 587 (2.0%). 10,578 households
(4.0.4%) have the exclusive use of all the above amenities.
The number of persons of pensionable age, that is men over 65 and
women over 60, is 12,193, there being 13 persons over 95 years of age.
Persons born outside the British Isles number 9,993, including
1,599 West Indians, 905 Indians, 789 Pakistanis, 770 Maltese, 698
Cypriots, 598 Africans and 296 other Asians. 5.9% of the population
were born in the Colonies and Commonwealth countries, slightly more
than the figure for the County of London which is 5.8%.