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1 .-STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE
AREA.
Area (in acres) 4,343
Population (Census, 1921) 129,395
,, (Estimated-mid-year, 1929) 124,800
No. of inhabited houses (1921) 25,526
No. of families or separate occupiers (Census, 1921) 29,461
Rateable value £645,572
Sum represented by penny rate £2,670 10s. 3d.
Social Conditions, etc.-The 1921 Census showed Walthamstow
to have then been the thirty-third largest town in England and
Wales, the third largest in Essex, and ranking fourth in Essex with
regard to density of population, having 29.8 persons per acre. The
1921 Census findings with regard to Ward populations are given
on page 8 with a view to comparison with the 1931 figures, which,
it is hoped, will be available in the annual report for 1931:
Twenty-six per cent. of the population lived in but worked out of
the Area, while 4.1 per cent. lived out but worked in the Area,
giving a net outward movement of 21.9 per cent., representing a
"day" population of 100,993.