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A very densely populated area where most people live in flats and pay rent. With a population of 310,300 as at the 2021 Census, Tower Hamlets has been the fastest growing area in the country over the past decade, with the population increasing 22% since 2011. Tower Hamlets is 19.8 square kilometres in size.
relatively high in Tower Hamlets: 35 per cent compared with 8 per cent nationally - the fourth highest percentage in England (out of 326 local authorities), after Newham, Brent and Ealing. Tower Hamlets also has a relatively high proportion of residents with poor English proficiency levels: 9 per cent of Tower Hamlets residents said they could not
East End history. Tower Hamlets covers a large chunk of London’s historic East End, and so it’s easy to journey back in time here. Characterised by 19 th -century docks, Victorian townhouses and tales of Jack the Ripper. Walking tours that tell the story of the area’s heritage come highly recommended.
The Tower Hamlets Overview and Scrutiny Committee identified food insecurity in the Borough as a subject for a Scrutiny Review. The rise of cost of living in the country due to unprecedented rise in inflation rates, along with high energy costs, has impacted on many people’s ability to buy basic essentials including food. As Tower Hamlets has the
Mar 24, 2023 · Tower Hamlets: A History and People. 24th March 2023 by Malcolm Oakley. Tower Hamlets is a London borough in East London, England. It was formed in 1965 by merging the former metropolitan boroughs of Stepney, Poplar, and Bethnal Green. The borough is named after the historic Tower Division, an area of southeast Middlesex focused on (but not ...
With housing costs factored in, the disparity between the borough with the highest (Tower Hamlets) and lowest rates (Merton) of poverty soars to 23 points. Before housing costs, only Lewisham and Wandsworth – the boroughs with the highest BHC poverty rates – have a poverty rate above 20%.
3.1 Poor air quality has significant impact on the health and quality of life of all in Tower Hamlets and London ranging from worsening respiratory symptoms and poor quality of life to premature deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. It causes 9,400 early deaths in London every year due to exposure to particulate matter (PM) and ...
