Tulse Hill ward
Tulse Hill wards starts at Lambeth Town Hall and goes down the A204 Effra Road and turns down Brixton Water Lane before following the eastern edge of Brockwell Park to Trinity Rise, where it meets up with Tulse Hill and Hardel Rise.
It then follows the A205 Christchurch Road before turning up Roupell Road and on to Upper Tulse Hill. It turns up Somers Road until meeting the A23 Brixton Road, which it follows back to the junction with Effra Road.
See a map of Tulse Hill ward
- St Matthews Church is in the ward, which contains a nightclub, bar and restaurant.
- Schools include Fenstanton and Holy Trinity.
- St Matthews, Tulse Hill and St Martin's are the main housing estates.
Statistics
The National Statistics page on Tulse Hill ward provides a comprehensive set of statistics on education, economics, access to services, lifestyle, physical environment and much more.
Headline statistics
- The population of Tulse Hill ward rose from 11,882 in 1991 to 13,119, an increase of 10.4%. This is 4.9% of the borough population. Tulse hill has an area of 103.1 hectares (3.8% of the borough). For the local elections in May 2002, there were 9,664 electors.
- Tulse Hill had a small percentage increase in Black people between 1991 and 2001 compared to the rest of the borough. There has also been a large increase in the 30-44 age range during this time.
- Tulse Hill has a high proportion of children in lone parent families, and a low proportion of children in married families.
- Tulse Hill has a high proportion of older people not living alone, and not in a couple. Tulse Hill has a low proportion of couple families with dependent children with both parents working.
- There is a high proportion of overcrowded council and registered social landlord rented lone parent households with dependent children but overall there has been a large decrease in council renting since 1991.
- Tulse Hill had a large percentage decrease in purpose built flats between 1991 and 2001, and a large increase in converted flats.
- There has been a small growth in full time employees between 1991 and 200, but there still are high rates of unemployment and long term unemployment.