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Further use has been made of the excellent Census
of 1951 County Report for Surrey, which gives copious
information regarding social conditions generally in the
county, by reproducing hereunder certain sections of the
tables and comments compiled by the Registrar General.
"In Surrey the main differentials are between
the areas of older housing adjacent to London, in
which recent population increase has been relatively
small, the more recently developed dormitory
areas on the fringe of the Metropolitan Area, and
the towns and rural districts beyond. In the
County as a whole the number of dwellings has
increased by 60 per cent since 1931, and by
comparison the increases for Barnes (13 per cent),
Wimbledon (20 per cent), Croydon (28 per cent),
Kingston-upon-Thames (30 per cent) and Richmond
(32 per cent) have been small. These areas on
the fringe of the County of London have the
highest proportions of households sharing dwellings,
the highest proportion of one person households
and, with the exception of Croydon, the highest
proportion of households with non-married heads.
At the other extreme six local authority areas
have more than doubled their numbers of dwellings,
viz. Epsom and Ewe 11 with 184 per cent increase,
Carshaltan with 137, Banstead with 136, Surbiton
126, Maiden and Coombe 125, and Merton and Morden
107".
There are 11,537 structurally separate dwellings
in Kingston-upon-Thames (increase of 30.2% since 1931).
The average number of rooms per dwelling is 4.88, and
only 3.14% have one or two rooms only. These figures
together with other associated figures appear below in
the extract tables.