MORE SMALL FAMILIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 189, 12 August 1932, Page 2

MORE SMALL FAMILIES

CENSUS LIGHT ON LONDON The two-person family and the threeperson family are becoming increasingly predominant in tho London area. This is one of a number of interesting facts revealed in llie details issued by the Stationery Office, of the census taken in the county of London last year on the night of April 26-27 (states the London Dailv Mail of June 30). The two and three-person families now account for 4.5.6 per cent, of tho total of 1,190.030 families, as compared with 41.1 per cent, in 1921, and 36.4 per cent, in 1911. On the other hand, Iho larger families of, say, eight, persons or more have been halved in number during the past twenty years (94,229 in 1911 to 47.957 last year), and now account for only 4 por cent, of the total. The males and females enumerated in the county were 2,044,108 and 2,352.895 respectively. Those .figures are 27,471 and 60,049 fewer than in 1921. The proportion of females to 1000 males is now 1151, compared with 1165 ten years earlier and 1127 twenty rears before. The population of the county is 1.397.003, a decrease of 87,520 in ten years. Greater London, however—the area covered bv the City and Metronolitan noliee district, and representing '■oughlv a circle of 15 miles around Charing Cross—has a population of 5.203.942, or more than one-fifth of Hie total population of England and Wales. Tt represents an increase of 723,741 over 1921.