Streatham South ward

The boundary circumnavigates Streatham Common and follows round until Cedarville Gardens and Strathbrook Road. It then meanders through Hermitage Lane, Acacia Road and then runs westwards, parallel with Woodmansterne Road. It follows round the edge of Woodmansterne Primary School and along Greyhound Terrace before going around Streatham Vale Park.

Here the boundary follows northwards until meeting the railway line where it turns sharply down through Streatham Common Station and then up the B272 Greyhound lane. The briefly follows north up the A23 Streatham High road until meeting Streatham Common again and follows back up the A214 Streatham Common North.
See a map of Streatham South ward

• A dominating feature is Streatham Common.
• Schools include Granton, Woodmansterne and Immanuel and St Andrews. 
• The ward includes a small library - Streatham Vale.
• There are no major housing estates.

Statistics

The National Statistics page on Streatham South ward provides a comprehensive set of statistics on education, economics, access to services, lifestyle, physical environment and much more.

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Headline statistics

• The population of Streatham South ward rose from 11,084 in 1991 to 13,449, an increase of 21.3%. This is 5.1% of the borough population. Streatham south has an area of 169.9 hectares (6.2% of the borough). For the local elections in May 2002, there were 9,231 electors.
• Streatham South had the largest percentage increase in population between 1991 and 2001 of all Lambeth's wards.
• Streatham South had the largest percentage reduction in white residents between 1991 and 2001 and the largest increase in Asian people.
• Streatham South has the lowest number of people in poor health without long-term limiting illness.
• Streatham South has the lowest proportion of people.
• All all the wards, Streatham South has the highest number of people aged 60+.
• Streatham South has a fairly high proportion of non-deprived households and deprived households, and low proportion of severely deprived households.
• Streatham South has the lowest proportion of one-person non-pensioner households and has the highest proportion of Couple Households with dependent children, and couple family households with all children non-dependent.
• There is a high proportion of overcrowded private-rented one-person non-pensioner households in all Streatham wards.
• There is a high proportion of overcrowded council and registered social landlord rented lone parent households with dependent children in Streatham South.