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The Registrar-General's statistics relating to population, births and
deaths differ slightly from those compiled from local records. The total
figures in respect of the district as a whole, which are supplied by the
Registrar-General, are set out in this report, but where classification has
been made, e.g. by age groups, sex, wards, etc., it has necessarily been based
on our own records, which may, in the aggregate, show slight discrepancies
compared with the Registrar-General's totals.
UNEMPLOYMENT
The following figures in respect of persons living in Carshalton registered
as unemployed at the Sutton Employment Exchange and the
Carshalton Youth Employment Bureau at the end of 1957 are supplied
through the courtesy of the Exchange Manager and the Youth Employment
Officer:
Men 116
Women 35
Boys 5
Girls 4
POPULATION
The Registrar-General's estimate of the home population at mid-year is
60,440. This is 530 less than his estimate for the year before and compares
with 62,721 at the Census in 1951 and an estimated home population of the
same year of 61,730.
In the period since the Census, 544 new dwellings have been erected in
the district and the excess of births over deaths was 1,500. The reduction of
1,290 in the Registrar-General's estimate over the past six years therefore
means that outward migration has exceeded inward movement by 2,790.
Outward movement has undoubtedly been greater than inward, but there
was little evidence that it was significantly in excess until the last year or so.
In 1957 the movement to Crawley New Town and elsewhere increased and
there has been a lowering in the level of occupation where one would
naturally most expect it—in the more densely populated wards of St. Helier.
At the time of the Census in 1951, the number of persons per Local
Government Elector in the St. Helier South ward was 1.69. A recent survey
of the houses in Westminster Road in that ward, shows that the number in
that road is now 1.30. Westminster Road cannot of course be completely
representative of the whole ward, but the changes in it affords an indication
of the increased average age of the population in a part of the district which
in its early days, 25 years ago rehoused a young population.
On the basis of the Registrar-General's estimated total of 60,440, the
estimated population of each ward is as follows :—
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