Islington
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Points of note
There are points of note about Islington in the following indicators:
- Child poverty
- Working age out-of-work benefits by ward
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Adult ill-health by borough
- Premature death by region
- Low-paid residents by borough
- Newly homeless households by borough
- Premature death by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
Borough profile
Islington is an inner London borough, lying north of the city and bordered by "Haringey"http://www.londonspovertyprofile.org.uk/indicators/boroughs/haringey/ to the north, Hackney to the east, City of London to the south and Camden to the west. It was formed in 1965 by merging the former metropolitan boroughs of Islington and Finsbury. Notable town centres include Finsbury Park, Tufnell Park, Holloway, Archway, Highbury and Kings Cross.
Like much of London, Islington’s population exploded with the establishment of the railways, reaching nearly 400,000 by the turn of the century and peaking at 410,000 before World War One. It saw a steady decline after World War Two as populations migrated out towards the new towns under the Abercrombie Plan for London (1944.) This decline reversed in the 1980s, but, with an estimated population of 187,800, Islington still has less than half of the population than it did in the early decades of this century. Nonetheless, it is London’s second most densley populated borough after Kensington and Chelsea. Islington is an ethnically diverse borough compared to the UK as a whole, but is not unusual within London. The largest ethnic groups after White British (58.9%) are White-Other (12.2%), Black African (4.9%) and Black Carribean (4.1%.).
Interestingly, unlike most other London boroughs, where deprived areas are concentrated in one part of the borough, areas of disadvantage are spread throughout Islington. This is because it does not have the large, high rise estates of other London boroughs, notably neighbouring Hackney and Haringey.
LB Islington website
Comparisons
Compare Islington's overall performance against other boroughs
Indicators where Boroughs are compared:
- Attainment at Age 11 by borough
- Attainment at Age 16 by borough
- Adult ill-health by borough
- Infant deaths by borough
- Premature death by borough
- Overcrowding by borough
- Newly homeless households by borough
- Households in temporary accommodation by boroughh
- Low-paid jobs by borough
- Low-paid residents by borough
- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Working age out-of-work benefits by ward
- Pay inequalities within London
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Pensioners receiving the Pension Credit Guarantee
- Children in households receiving out-of-work benefits