About Highgate

This is a snapshot of Highgate in numbers, at the time we published the Neighbourhood Plan in 2017:

  • 18,000 residents in 8,000 households
  • about 3,300 under 30s and 3,300 over 60s
  • covers nearly 5m sq metres – equivalent to 700 football pitches
  • gained 1,800 people, a 10% increase in the last decade
  • 27% of it is garden, and 44% green space
  • reported 1,600 crimes in the past year, one for every five households with anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime topping the list
  • over a half owner occupiers and a third who rent privately
  • has more road (11% of area) than domestic buildings (9%)
  • 7,000 cars owned by its residents
  • three out of ten residents born abroad
  • contains schools with more than 3,000 pupils
  • about 1,000 residents aged over 75 and 140 over 90

Jacksons Lane’s local projects

An interview with Stuart Cox, Participation Manager at Jacksons Lane Stuart, Jacksons Lane offers such a broad range of events – can you give us a bit of an overview? Yes indeed, we define ourselves as ‘North London’s Creative Space’. We produce and host three key...

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