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12 Tones of London

London's demographics explored by processing 2011 Census data with a statistical sorting method called cluster analysis. Attention is then focused on the sounds of the 12 archetypal council wards emerging from the study.

Cluster 2

Second highest for Mixed Race population. All other topic means for Cluster 2 differ by half a standard deviation or less from their equivalent all-London means.

KEY PEOPLE STATS

Mean age: 34.9.

Main occupation groups – Professional: 23.2%. Technical: 15.8%. Administrative: 11.3%. Director/senior officials: 10.7%. Elementary: 10.2%.

Long-term unemployed: 3.1%.

Main ethnic groups – White British: 38.9%. Other White: 16.5%. African: 9.5%. Mixed Race: 6%. Caribbean: 5.6%.

English as main household language: 70.3%.

Households without a car: 42.8%.

LAND USE, HOUSING, TENURE

Residents per hectare: 78.6.

Main land use types – Domestic gardens: 29%. Green space: 23.8%. Roads: 16.1%. Domestic buildings: 13.1%. Non-domestic buildings: 5.6%.

Main housing types – Flats: 35.2%. Terraced: 25%. Conversions: 17%. Semi-detached: 16.2%. Detached: 4.6%.

Main tenure types – Privately rented: 29.7%. Mortgaged: 27.4%. Social housing: 21.5%. Owned outright: 18.8%.

CLUSTER DETAILS

Total wards: 70.

Wards with silhouette values above 0.2 in descending order: Bowes (Enfield), Tooting (Wandsworth), Leytonstone (Waltham Forest), Addiscombe (Croydon), Furzedown (Wandsworth), Colliers Wood (Merton), Ladywell (Lewisham).

Medoid/lowest average distance within: Ealing (Elthorne) 21.05.

Highest silhouette value: Bowes (Enfield) 0.2512.