Gipsy Hill ward
The northernmost boundary of Gipsy Hill starts at West Norwood library and goes along Robson Road by the cemetery and Park Hall Road until the junction with South Croxted Road.
The eastern boundary goes along the A2199 South Croxted Road to the Paxton roundabout and then up Gipsy Hill to Woodland Road and the jasper Road until meeting Crystal Palace Parade.
The southern border runs along the A214 Central hill and then turns north up the B232 Elder Road and Norwood High Street until meeting back up with West Norwood Library.
See a map of Gipsy Hill ward
- The ward is dominated by West Norwood Cemetery and Norwood Park.
- Schools include Elm Wood, Kingswood and Paxton.
- The ward includes West Norwood Library.
- Gipsy Hill Police Station is in the ward.
- The primary housing estates are Central Hill, Bloomfield, Berridge Road, Olive Road, St Louis and Vicennes.
Statistics
The National Statistics page on Gipsy 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 Gipsy Hill ward rose from 12,434 in 1991 to 13,601, an increase of 9.4%. This is 5.1% of the borough population. Gipsy hill has an area of 157.0 hectares (5.8% of the borough). For the local elections in May 2002, there were 9,267 electors.
- Gipsy Hill and Knight's Hill have high numbers of people with long term limiting illness, and the highest proportion of those people aged 65+.
- Gipsy Hill has a high proportion of children in cohabiting couple families and has a high proportion of lone parent households with dependent children.
- There has been a decrease in couple households since 1991.
- Gipsy Hill has the highest number of unpaid carers providing over 50 hours a week.
- The ward has a high proportion of overcrowded council and RSL rented lone parent households with dependent children.
- Gipsy Hill ward has a high percentage of residents with no qualifications.