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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney covers an area of
3,292 389 acres (land and inland water 3,287 192 acres, and tidal
water 5.197 acres) and is divided into three Registration Subdistricts—Hackney
North includes the Stamford Hill, Downs and
West Hackney Wards, Hackney South-West includes the Hackney,
Kingsland and South Hackney Wards, whilst Hackney South-East
is made up of the Clapton Park and Homerton Wards.
POPULATION.
The population of the Borough, as ascertained at the last Census
(1931), was 215,333. The Registrar-General has estimated that
at mid-1934 the population was 211,120. This latter figure gives
a density of population of 642 persons per acre. The following
table shows the estimated population and density of population of
London, Hackney and each of the Electoral Wards and Registration
Sub-Districts of the Borough:—

PHYSICAL FEATURES AND GENERAL CHARACTER
OF THE AREA.
The Borough varies in elevation between 16 feet and 110 feet
above ordnance datum. The north-west portion lies on yellow clay,
and there is a considerable area on a bed of gravel and sand of
varying depths. Other portions are on brick earth, and in the Lee
Valley there is a bed of alluvial gravel. Underlying the whole of
the Borough is the London blue clay which in a few places appears
near the surface
Number of inhabited houses (Census 1931) 34,155
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1934)
according to Rate Books 37,197
Number of families or separate occupiers
(1931) 59,143
Rateable value (December, 1934) £1,476,068
Sum represented by a penny rate £5,945