Streatham Hill ward
The northern border of Streatham Hill starts at the junction of Streatham Place and Atkins Road and goes along the A205 along Christchurch Road to the junction with Norwood Road. It then follows the railway line westwards, momentarily deviating around Mount Nod Road and Hailshal Avenue, before it eventually meets Rastell Avenue. Here it turns northwards, along Emmanuel Road and New Park Road until the junction again with Streatham Place.
See a map of Streatham Hill ward
- Places of note include Brixton Bus Garage, Clapham High School and Streatham Wells School.
- The ward is dominated by Leigham Court and Palace Road Estates, but also contains Claremont Estate.
- There is an Adult Education Centre on Palace Road.
Statistics
The National Statistics page on Streatham 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 Streatham Hill ward rose from 12,029 in 1991 to 13,359, an increase of 11.1%. This is 5.0% of the borough population. Streatham hill has an area of 127.3 hectares (4.7% of the borough). For the local elections in May 2002, there were 9,722 electors.
- Streatham Hill has a fairly high proportion of non-deprived households and deprived households, and low proportion of severely deprived households.
- Streatham Hill has a low proportion of non-working lone parent families.
- There is a high proportion of overcrowded private-rented one-person non-pensioner households in all Streatham wards.
- Streatham Hill has a low proportion of overcrowded council rented households in all wards. There was a fairly large increase in private renting in all wards in Streatham.
- The ward had one of the largest reductions in retired people between 1991 and 2001.
- Streatham Hill had a large decrease in the proportion of residents employed in skilled trades between 1991 and 2001.