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A table is included summarising workplace movements and
giving a comparison of the resident and day population. Out of a
resident population of 121,200, 56,990 males and 64,210 females,
32,515 resident persons worked elsewhere and 16,909 persons
resident elsewhere worked in Walthamstow. This produced an
aggregate of 49,424 inward and outward workplace movements or
408 per 1,000 resident population. The estimated day population
was 105,594.
Of the 32,515 persons resident in the Borough but working
elsewhere, the workplace of 8,688 was in Essex, Leyton predominating
with a total of 3,647; 19,204 persons worked in London and
of these 4,916 in the City, the next highest totals being 2,516 in
Hackney and 2,269 in the City of Westminster ; 4,173 persons
worked in Middlesex and of these 1,977 worked in Tottenham.
In regard to persons working in the Borough and resident elsewhere,
the total was 16,909, i.e., 12,722 from Essex including 3,511
from Chingford, 4,528 from Leyton and 1,570 from Wanstead and
Woodford. There were 1,894 from London and 1,847 from
Middlesex.
Employment.— According to information kindly supplied by
Mr. Percy C. Graham, Manager of the local Employment Exchange,
approximately 350 men and 220 women were placed in employment
every month during the year 1956 through the placing machinery
of the Employment Exchange. The number of persons insured
under the National Insurance Acts employed in the whole area
covered by the Exchange, comprising the boroughs of Walthamstow,
Leyton, Chingford and Wanstead and Woodford was
approximately 82,000. Of this number it is estimated that about
40,000 were employed in Walthamstow. During 1956 the average
numbers of persons unemployed in the whole area was 680 men
and 200 women, including 110 disabled men and 15 disabled women.