Petts Wood Statistics


STATISTICS
Population
	The resident population of Petts Wood and Knoll in mid 1998 was 15200 people, 5 per cent of the population of Bromley local authority. 17 percent of Petts Wood and Knoll’s population in mid 1998 were aged under 16, 60 per cent were aged between 16 and 59 and 23 per cent were aged 60 and over. This compares with 19, 59 and 22 per cent respectively for Bromley as a whole
Vital Statistics
	A total of 149 live births to mothers usually resident in Petts Wood and Knoll and 133 deaths of residents of this ward were registered in 1998. These represented crude rates of 10 births and 9 deaths per thousand residents compared with 12 and 10 respectively across the whole of Bromley local authority.
Employee Jobs
	There were 3100 employee jobs in Petts Wood and Knoll at September 1998, 3 per cent of the Bromley total.
Businesses
	In March 2000 there were 455 VAT registered businesses in Petts Wood employing a total of 3100 people.
Indices of Deprivation
	The Indices of Deprivation 2000 (with rank 1 being the most deprived ward in England) gave Petts Wood and Knoll the rank of 8361 out of a total of 8414 English wards.