Hackney Borough Profile 2006

The Hackney Borough Profile has been produced by the Strategic Policy and Research Team, with the support of Team Hackney, the Local Strategic Partnership, to provide key data about the borough. It supports the community strategy, Mind the Gap, which sets an agenda for reducing inequalities and proverty and increasing opportunity over the next ten years. It is organised to support the themes of the community strategy:

• A good place to grow up
• Thriving, healthy communities
• A safer, cleaner place to live
• Better homes
• A dynamic, creative economy
• A sustainable borough

To understand the needs of our communities and put in place the projects, programmes and services that we will need to make Hackney a better place we must have good quality research and information. The profile is intended to support policy developers, planners and decisionmakers across the public, private and voluntary and community sectors with the information and analysis they need. It is also intended as a source of information about the borough for wider public interest.

The profile draws strongly on the 2001 Census which allows comparisons to be made between the borough, neighbouring boroughs, the London region and England and Wales more generally. It also allows more detailed internal comparisons between wards and smaller areas to create statistical pictures of Hackney’s local neighbourhoods. Census data is supported by a large range of other sources and the most up-to-date information has been used throughout. We hope that this publication will be of value to users and that it will be complemented in the future by further analysis and exploration that will further build our understanding of our borough and its communities.

You can contact us at research@hackney.gov.uk

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Page updated: 3 Oct 2007