We reported on how Brent's population has been grossly underestimated by the ONS
to the extent of 257,000 instead of 312,000. As a result, the Council lost £millions
in support grant for the extra needs of this massive undernumeration. At last,
the ONS admitted its mistake and this year the government coughed up c£4m,but only
for this year, no backdating.
We are just getting through the detailed population Census returns breakdown for 2011
from the Office of National Statistics and there is much new information contained,
broken down by ward.
In Fryent, there were 4,419 households with 11,884 people in 2001. The population
jumped to 13,445 in 2011 (a 13.14% change), but not the number of households (4,374).
What does that tell us?
Larger households, obviously, but in fact, size of
households only increased marginally from 2.7 persons to 3 persons on average.
The age group breakdown is also interesting. A large jump in the number of 0-4 infants,
but only a slight increase in youngsters aged 5-19 or in the over 65 age group. Clearly,
the demand for school places is becoming acute - Fryent Primary just doubled its intake
and the Council are promoting a major new school building programme all over the borough
in both primary and secondary areas.
A more detailed ward profile will soon be available, which we will share with you.
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