Vassall Ward
A202 Camberwell New Road, as far as Flodden Road/Denmark Road, and the railway line into Loughborough Junction, bound Vassall to the north. The ward reaches as far south as Lilford Road/Loughborough Road, and across Brixton Road to Robsart Street.
The eastern boundary of Vassall is the A3 Clapham Road between Stockwell Park Road and South Island Place. Vassall includes the section of A23 Brixton Road between South Island Place and Loughborough Road.
See a map of Vassal Ward
- The largest open spaces are Myatt's Fields, Mostyn Gardens and Slade Gardens.
- The ward includes Minet Library, home of the Lambeth archives.
- There are several large housing estates in the ward, including Myatt's Fields North, Myatt's Fields South, Cowley, Holland Town and Caldwell Gardens.
Statistics
The National Statistics page on Vassall ward provides a comprehensive set of statistics on education, economics, access to services, lifestyle, physical environment and much more.
Headline statistics
- The population of Vassall ward rose from 12,429 in 1991 to 13,172, an increase of 6.0 per cent. This is 4.9 per cent of the borough population. Vassall has an area of 112.8 hectares (4.1 per cent of the borough). For the local elections in 2002, there were 9,448 electors.
- Vassall had a large percentage decrease in Chinese/Other Ethnic Group people between the 1991 and 2001 Census', a reduction of 2.4 per cent compared to the borough figure of 0 per cent.
- Vassall also had a large percentage reduction in White people, -10.3 per cent compared to the borough reduction of 7.3 per cent.
- Vassall has one of the highest numbers of people with long term limiting illness, and had the lowest decrease in people aged 65 and above with long term limiting illness, and a small decrease in the number of people aged 0 to 15.
- Vassall has a high proportion of children in all age groups. All wards in North Lambeth had a decrease in the proportion of people under 16 between 1991 and 2001.
- Vassall has a high proportion of children in lone parent families and a low proportion of children in married families.
- Vassall has a high proportion of deprived households and a high proportion of severely deprived households using the Census deprivation score of Employment, Education, Health and Disability and Housing deprivation.
- Vassal has a high proportion of overcrowded council rented households but there was a substantial increase in home ownership between 1991 and 2001.