Lea Bridge – Hackney London Borough
Lea Bridge contains approximately 5,528 households with a population of about 13,988 according to the 2011 census.
Lea Bridge Ward lies on the north-eastern side of Hackney.
The profile shows that Lea Bridge’s population has a similar age profile to Hackney’s.
In terms of the ward’s ethnicity profile, there are proportionately more Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and black Caribbean residents, and fewer black African and white residents than the borough average.
Over a third of the wards households rented their homes from a private landlord in 2011 and there are proportionally more home owners, but fewer social renters.
Lea Bridge’s economic and social profiles show that qualification levels for the ward are around the same as for Hackney.
Proportionally fewer residents are in full- and part-time work, but there are more self employed people.
Unemployment is higher than the borough average.
In 2011 61% of adults aged 74 and under were in work in Lea Bridge.
Lea Bridge residents have similar health levels to the rest of the borough, though there are slightly higher proportions of residents reporting very bad health
Postcodes in Lea Bridge include the following.
| E5 0xx | E5 8xx | E5 9xx |