Thurlow Park ward
A2199 Croxted Road bound the ward on the east from Brockwell Park. It turns down Park Hall Road and Robson Road where it then turns north up the A215 Norwood Road before going down York Hill.
Here is veers back up the railway line to Norwood Road again, before diverting off Hardel Rise, Tulse Hill and Trinity Rise before meeting with Brockwell Park, which it follows round until the junction with Croxted Road.
See a map of Thurlow Park ward
- Schools include Rosendale, Turney, Grove House and St Martins in the Fields.
- The dominant housing estates are Rosendale Gardens, Lairdale and Deronda.
- Other places of note are the Fire Station on Norwood Road (between Lancaster Avenue and Elmcourt Road) and Tulse Hill Station on Avenue Park Road.
Statistics
The National Statistics page on Thurlow Park ward provides a comprehensive set of statistics on education, economics, access to services, lifestyle, physical environment and much more.
Headline statistics
- The population of Thurlow Park ward rose from 10,832 in 1991 to 10,958, an increase of 1.2%. This is 4.1% of the borough population. Thurlow Park has an area of 151.1 hectares (5.5% of the borough).
- For the local elections in May 2002, there were 8,946 electors.
- Thurlow Park has the highest proportion of White British children and a low proportion of Black African children. The ward has a low proportion of people born outside the EU.
- Thurlow Park has a high proportion of children in married familes and a high proportion of children in cohabiting families.
- Thurlow Park has the highest proportion of people aged 60+ who provide unpaid care.
- Thurlow Park has a high proportion of non-deprived households, and a low proportion of severely deprived households.
- Thurlow Park has a low proportion of lone parent households with dependent children.
- All wards in Norwood have a high percentage of houses compared to flats.
- Thurlow Park had a comparatively large increase in self-employed people between 1991 and 2001.
- Norwood has seen the largest fall in the number of economically inactive people, with a ward average decrease of 7%.