Wandsworth
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Comparisons
Compare Wandsworth's overall performance against other boroughs
Wandsworth is highlighted particularly in the relevant indicators listed on the right. In addition, data for all boroughs feature in the indicators below:
- Affordable housing delivered by borough
- Primary school availability by borough
- GP services by borough
- Childcare availability by borough
- Early years development by borough
- Child poverty by borough
- Landlord repossessions by borough
- Mortgage repossessions by borough
- Attainment at age 16
- Premature death by borough
Borough profile
The inner London suburb of Wandsworth is situated to the south-west of the city. The largest inner London borough, covering an area of 13.2 square miles, the borough stretches from central London at Vauxhall out to the edge of Richmond Park in the west and is bordered by Lambeth to the east, Merton to the South, Kingston-upon Thames to the to the south west, Richmond upon Thames to the west and Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea and the City of Westminster to the north, with the River Thames forming the boundary with these northerly neighbours.
The borough was formed in 1965 from the metropolitan borough of Battersea and much of the metropolitan borough of Wandsworth, excluding Clapham and most of Streatham, which were transferred over to the London Borough of Lambeth. There are five town centres: Clapham Junction, Balham, Tooting, Wandsworth, Putney.
In the early 20th Century, slum clearance programmes and industrial decline led to emigration as local residents moved to the outer suburbs, like Croydon, or to one of the new towns, such as Crawley. Following some population regeneration, today the borough has 281,800 residents and population density of 82.3 persons per hectare, which is significantly above the Greater London average, although relatively sparse for an inner London borough. Wandsworth has a high proportion of BME residents compared to the national average although it has the lowest proportion of BME residents in inner London, other than the City of London.
The population growth of the last 20 years is somewhat fuelled by the recent influx of young professional workers. Wandsworth is a generally prosperous borough, with one of the highest average incomes in London and a much higher percentage of households with an income of over £60,000 (23%) than the Greater London average (15%.). In 2006, it did not have a single ward in the poorest 10% of wards in London.
The borough is notable for its high turnover of population, but this is likely to be young, mobile professionals moving into and out of the area.
Borough:
- Barking and Dagenham
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- City of London
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster