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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 1962 are supplied through the
courtesy of the Exchange Manager and the Youth Employment Officer:
Men 122 approx.
Women 33 „
Boys 12
Girls 8
The figures are very slightly higher than those of a year ago.
POPULATION
As is noted above there was a substantial reduction in the population
in the 10 years of the last intercensal period, the fall being 5,259. The
home population which excludes temporary residents, such as patients in
hospital from other areas at mid 1962 is estimated by the Registrar-General
as 56,380 which is a reduction on his estimate for the previous year of 110.
Figures are now available for the defacto population of the various
wards at the official enumeration of 1961 and are shown below. They are
the actual number of individuals in the wards on the night of the census
including temporary visitors from other areas and from abroad, but do
not include residents who were on that night temporarily out of the district.
St. Helier North 7021
St. Helier South 6211
St. Helier West 6606
North-East 8949
North-West 6761
Central 5725
South-East 9113
South-West 7098
Total 57484
The figure for St. Helier South ward includes the patients in St.
Helier Hospital, most of whom were not residents of Carshalton, approximately
500. The same applies to the South-East ward which includes
the patients of Queen Mary's Hospital with approximately the same
number of non-residents. To a very much smaller degree deductions
have also to be made from the St. Helier North ward in respect of the
Wandle Valley Hospital and from the Central ward in respect of the War
Memorial Hospital, in order to arrive at the home population. The number
of non-residents who were included in the census count was approximately
1,000 which explains why the Registrar-General's estimate of the home
population is approximately that number less than the defacto population
count at the census.
The number of structurally separate dwellings at the census was
17,545 and the population in private households was 55,254. The average
number of persons per private dwelling was therefore 3.15, which compares
with 3.63 per dwelling at the 1951 census 10 years earlier and 3.89 at the
census of 1931 30 years ago.
The following table shows the estimated home population of each ward
at the middle of 1962 and is an estimated apportionment of the RegistrarGeneral's
total figure for the year.
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