St Leonard's ward
The north boundary of St Leonard's ward runs along the railway track, parallel with Sternhold Avenue to A23 Streatham High Road where it turns south. At the junction with Sunnyhill Road it continues eastwards along Wellfield Road until the railway line.
The boundary then follows the railway until the A23 Streatham High Road again at Streatham Railway Station. The boundary then continues down Streatham High road until Greyhound Lane until it meets Streatham Station. It then follows the railway line back northwards until Tooting Bec Road. It continues up Garrads Road to Bedford Hill and then backs up to the railway track again.
See a map of St Leonard's ward
- Schools include St Leonard's.
- Streatham Train Station, Streatham Hill Train Station, Streatham Police Station and Streatham Bus Garage are all located in the ward.
- The main housing estate is Magdelene.
Statistics
The National Statistics page on St Leonard's ward provides a comprehensive set of statistics on education, economics, access to services, lifestyle, physical environment and much more.
Headline statistics
- The population of St Leonard's ward rose from 10,792 in 1991 to 12,215, an increase of 13.2%. This is 4.6% of the borough population. St Leonards has an area of 144.6 hectares (5.3% of the borough). For the local elections in May 2002, there were 9,650 electors.
- St Leonard's has one of the lowest numbers of people in poor health with long-term limiting illness.
- St Leonard's has a high proportion of married couple families and has a high rate of economically active young adults. The wars has a low proportion of lone parent households with dependent children.
- St Leonard's has the highest proportion of older people in communal establishments.
- Streatham has a low proportion of overcrowded council rented households in all wards, and St Leonards has the highest proportion of overcrowded private rented households.
- There was a fairly large increase in private renting in all wards in Streatham, with substantial decreases in owner occupation in St Leonard's and Streatham South.
- St Leonard's has a high proportion of private rented households with no central heating.