King’s Park – Hackney London Borough
King’s Park contains approximately 4,835 households with a population of about 12,696 according to the 2011 census.
King’s Park Ward lies in the east of Hackney.
King’s Park Ward includes Hackney Marshes, the largest area of parkland in the borough.
The profile shows that King’s Park’s population has a greater proportion of children, middle aged and older adults, aged 45-84 and fewer young adults aged 20-44 than Hackney.
It has fewer white British and other white people and more black residents than the borough as a whole.
The ward has more married couple and lone parent households, but comparatively fewer single person, multi-person and cohabiting couple households without children.
In 2011, over half of households in King’s Park lived in social housing, and only 17% rented from a private landlord, compared to 29% of Hackney households.
King’s Park’s economic and social profiles show that just over 30% of adults living in King’s Park have degree-level qualifications or higher, compared with a borough average of 41%.
Unemployment is nearly 2% above the borough average.
Just over half of the working-age population in King’s Park Ward is in work.
Residents of King’s Park Ward experience levels of health that are worse than the borough average.
Postcodes in King’s Park include the following.
| E15 2xx | E5 0xx | E5 9xx |
| E9 5xx | E9 6xx |