Clapham Common ward
Clapham Common's north boundary is the A3 Long Road (up to The Pavement) and then A2217 Clapham Park Road to Acre Lane. The east boundary goes down the B221 King's Avenue until Clarence Avenue where it goes down to the junction with Poynders Road. Poynders Road and Hazelbourne Road mark the southern boundary to Balham tube station. The side of Clapham Common back up to A3 Long Road is the western boundary.
See a map of Clapham Common ward
- Clapham Common covers a third of the ward.
- Both Clapham North and Clapham Common tube stations are in the ward.
- Clapham Police Station is on the corner of Cavendish Road and Klea Avenue.
- Schools include Bonneville School and St Mary's School.
- The larger estates are Clarence Avenue, Oaklands, James Hayward, Notre Dame and Carfax.
Statistics
The National Statistics page on Clapham Common ward provides a comprehensive set of statistics on education, economics, access to services, lifestyle, physical environment and much more.
Headline statistics
- The population of Clapham Common ward rose from 11,086 in 1991 to 12,270, an increase of 10.7%. This is 4.6% of the borough population. Clapham common has an area of 111.9 hectares (4.1% of the borough). For the local elections in May 2002, there were 8,777 electors.
- Clapham Common has a high proportion of White British people, amongst the highest proportion in the borough. It had a small decrease in White people between 1991 and 2001 compared to the Lambeth figure.
- Clapham Common has a high proportion of White Irish children.
- Of all Lambeth's wards, Clapham Common has the lowest proportion of people with long term limiting illness and one of the lowest rates of poor health.
- Clapham Common has a low proportion of one-parent families with dependent children.
- The ward has high level of economic activity amongst 16-24 year olds and there has been an increase in the proportion of all economically active residents since 1991.
- Clapham Common is the least deprived ward, with the highest proportion of not deprived households and the lowest proportion of deprived and severely deprived households.