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Percentage.
No. of
Families. Population.
1921 1911
Living in 1 room 872 1912 6.0 3.5
2 rooms 1588 5005 10.8 5.9
„ 3 2042 8040 13.9 10.5
„ 4 2308 10952 15.7 15.4
„ 5„ 6120 30802 41.8 47.4
,, 6—7 rooms 1418 6763 9.7 14.1
„ 8—9 ,, 232 1087 1.6 2.3
,, 10 rooms and over 74 374 0.5 0.9
The housing conditions of private families as well as the range of variations
obtaining throughout the County were as follows:—
Edmonton.
Maximum.
Minimum.
Rooms per dwelling
5-l8
6.97
4.68
Families per dwelling
1.23
1.65
1.04
Persons per family
4.43
4.77
3.69
„ „ (in 1911)
4.99
4.99
4.19
Rooms per person
0.95
1.46
0.91
Population living more than 2 persons
to a room
11.2%
13.2%
1.8%
Surplus or deficiency of rooms in 1921
(—)on basis of England and Wales
Standard, 1911 )
-5586
or
23%
-14.7%
-8.4%
Increase in dwellings (per cent.),
1911—1921
7.9
147.2
1.3
Increase in private families (per cent),
1911—1921
17.6
142.3
7.2
Number of inhabited houses.—The Overseer has kindly furnished
me the following returns for 1923:—
Houses.
Tenements.
East.
West.
East.
West.
Bury Street Ward
2,551
1,308
147
34
Church Street Ward
1,246
2,867
348
211
Fore Street Ward
1,518
2,395
15
78
5,315
6,570
510
323
The total number of houses and tenements in assessment is 12,718. The
number of houses on the Council's Housing Estate is 232.