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The total number of private households in the Borough (i.e.
comprising a person living alone, or a group of persons living
together taking meals prepared together and benefiting from a
common housekeeping) was recorded as 47,551, being 2,185 more than
ten years ago.
Altogether 45,001 structurally separate dwellings were occupied,
being an increase of 5,04l since the last Census.
Of the total population of 146,603, 143,804 (or 98 per cent.)
were residing in private households, 888 were in hospitals, 292 in
hotels, 167 in homes for the aged and disabled, 55 in places of
detention, 27 in children's homes, 27 in educational establishments,
4ll in defence establishments, 440 in civilian ships, boats and
barges, and 491 in miscellaneous communal establishments.
Woolwich had a high percentage of wholly residential permanent
buildings containing one dwelling (87 per cent, of total households),
and also a high proportion of owner/occupiers (42 per cent, of total
households). The Borough had almost the lowest percentage in the
County of London of rented furnished accommodation.
There were 45,549 structurally separate dwellings in the Borough
containing a total of 47,098 household spaces; 20,932 were owner/
occupied; 13,464 were rented from the local authorities; 10,560 were
rented unfurnished; 1,082 were held by virtue of employment; 775 were
rented furnished; and 285 were rented together with business premises.
Almost 40 per cent, of the total accommodation in the Borough consisted
of five-roomed accommodation. At the time of the Census 548 dwellings
were unoccupied.
The density of occupation (persons per room) for the Borough was
0.68, compared with 0.73 at the 1951 Census, and is the lowest density
in the County area.
Twelve per cent, of Woolwich households are one-person households;
29 per cent, two-person households; 22 per cent, three-person households;
and 19 per cent, four-person households. The percentage of Woolwich
persons living at more than 1½ per room was 3.8, compared with 6.1 in
1951. This latest figure is the lowest percentage of any Borough in
the County, the County average being 11.5 per cent.
It is pleasing to report that the number of households in the
Borough without a fixed bath has been substantially reduced in the last
ten years and is now 9,727 (20 per cent.) compared with 15,534 at the
time of the 1951 Census. A further 2,393 households (5 per cent.)
compared with 4,119 ten years ago, were sharing a fixed bath with
another household.
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