Thread by @CllrSimonHogg

Happy #CensusDay

Please fill in your form - good data is crucial for good decision making.

Here’s 10 tweets that tell the story of Wandsworth in data.

We’re a healthy, wealthy, well-educated & young borough - with sharp inequalities

Wandsworth’s history is the key to understanding how it is today.

Mostly farmland in 1850, its population went up 10 times over the next 50 years.

Our population of 306,995 (at the last census) is still 100,000 below the 1931 peak!

Life expectancy across the borough ranges from 77 to 88 years - depending on where you live

The ‘Index of Multiple Deprivation’ brings together data (income, jobs, education, health, housing, crime etc) to produce an overall measure of deprivation.

Here is the map for Wandsworth. Red = more deprived

(source: datawand.info/deprivation/ma…)

(The independent Kinghan report into the Clapham Junction riots said that the Winstanley Estate in Battersea was in the worst 1% of places to grow up as a child in the UK)

Wandsworth housing is very expensive.

Houses cost more than double the London average and many times the UK average

Lots of residents rent flats.

66% of Wandsworth homes are flats (versus 22% nationally) and 30% of households are private renters (versus 15% nationally)

A staggering number of Wandsworth residents have a university degree.

More than twice the national average - possibly the highest share of graduates in the country

Thanks to all these graduates moving in, Wandsworth has a large population of people in their 20s and 30s, who are generally healthy and active.

There are correspondingly fewer children and older people in the borough

Average income is high. There are few large employers in the borough – most people commute out to work (or used to!)

I was surprised to find that Heritage Park, in Tooting, had the highest income postcode (SW17 6) in the UK:

yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9966991.h…

(Most of the above charts are from the council’s very helpful Datawand site:

datawand.info

I was looking into the stats for a fun project with @BeeKemiA)

Wandsworth’s history is the key to understanding its current inequalities.

This smart centenary video from Battersea Labour Party charts the social challenges of 19th and 20th century London and the Labour Party’s responses: