The 2001 Census statistics pages provide a summary of information from the latest Census. The information is arranged by theme and looks at things such as people, their background, education, homes and health in addition to profiles of each of Waltham Forest's wards.
2001 Census statistics - ward profiles
Deprivation
The Indices of Deprivation 2004 are measures of the lack of facilities or opportunity, for Super Output area (definition below) and local authority areas in England. It combines a number of indicators that cover a range of measures (income, employment, health deprivation and disability, education skills and training, housing and geographical access to services) into a single deprivation score for each area.
Economy
Information about the economic activity, number of hours worked, number of people not working and length of time since last worked, type and industry of employment, approximated social grade used by market researchers and marketing industries and socio-economic classification based on occupation.
Education
Education statistics for Waltham Forest: qualifications gained and highest level, student status and student accommodation.
Ethnicity and religion
Provides information about religion, ethnicity and the country where people were born.
Health
Information about peoples’ health, permanent sickness or disabled status, limiting long-term illness and the provision of unpaid care.
Housing
Information about the housing in Waltham Forest: type of accommodation, ownership of accommodation, number of rooms, facilities available and ownership of cars. Information about managed residential care such as hospitals and care homes, details of the type of establishment and the age and type of people residing there.
Waltham Forest Statistics
Waltham Forest Statistics allows access to data at the local level through a single source on the Internet. WF Statistics has a set of tools that can be used to view data in basic tables or conduct further analysis by comparing data using charts, graphs or maps.
People
Information about people such as age, gender, family type, number of adults, children or pensioners living within the household and migration patterns, country of birth, ethnic group and religion.
Transport
Information about residents’ means of transport and distance travelled to work.
Super Output Areas are units of geography used in the UK for statistical analysis. They were created with the intention that they would not be subject to frequent boundary change. This makes SOAs more suitable than other geography units (such as wards) because they are less likely to change over time.
