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.
Highest for households without a car, long-term unemployed, Mixed Race, African and Caribbean populations, social housing. Second highest for caring/leisure occupations and Other Ethnicities population. Second lowest for outright ownership of housing.
Mean age: 33.
Main occupation groups – Professional: 20.2%. Technical: 16.3%. Elementary: 13.9%. Administrative: 10.3%. Caring/leisure: 9.6%.
Long-term unemployed: 4.6%.
Main ethnic groups – White British: 31.4%. African: 19.9%. Other White: 14.6%. Caribbean: 8.7%. Mixed Race: 6.8%.
English as main household language: 69.1%.
Households without a car: 60.6%.
Residents per hectare: 126.5.
Main land use types – Roads: 20.3%. Domestic gardens: 19.7%. Green space: 18.4%. Domestic buildings: 14.2%. Non-domestic buildings: 9.7%.
Main housing types – Flats: 55.3%. Terraced: 18.4%. Conversions: 16%. Semi-detached: 6.1%. Detached: 2.5%.
Main tenure types – Social housing: 46.3%. Privately rented: 25.1%. Mortgaged: 16.3%. Owned outright: 9%.
Total wards: 66.
Wards with silhouette values above 0.2 in descending order: Camberwell Green (Southwark), Coldharbour (Lambeth), East Walworth (Southwark), Chatham (Hackney), South Bermondsey (Southwark), Wick (Hackney), Brunswick Park (Southwark), Peckham (Southwark).
Medoid/lowest average distance within: Brunswick Park (Southwark) 23.34.
Highest silhouette value: Camberwell Green (Southwark) 0.2825.