Clapham and Brixton Hill

2025 parliamentary constituency

Date elected

12th Dec 2019

Place

Constituency history

This constituency was introduced at the July 2024 general election, and replaced the previous two new constituencies:

Streatham

Covered approximately 48% of this new constituency’s population, and 44% of this new constituency’s area.

Vauxhall

Covered approximately 38% of this new constituency’s population, and 35% of this new constituency’s area.

Constituency age distribution

This area National average
Ages 0 - 15 13.9% 18.3%
Ages 16 - 24 12.8% 10.5%
Ages 25 - 34 30.5% 13.2%
Ages 35 - 49 20.2% 19.1%
Ages 50 - 64 15.0% 19.8%
Ages 65 and over 7.6% 19.1%

Constituency Population

105,000

102,977.2 national average

Current Industry

This area National average
Agriculture, energy and water 0.4% 1.1%
Construction 2.6% 4.1%
Distribution, hotels and restaurants 9.1% 9.2%
Financial, real estate, professional and administrative activities 20.8% 7.9%
Manufacturing 1.4% 3.5%
Does not apply 38.5% 53.4%
Other 3.9% 2.1%
Public administration, education and health 15.7% 14.3%
Transport and communication 7.6% 4.4%

Current Occupation

This area National average
Administrative and secretarial occupations 4.1% 4.3%
Associate professional and technical occupations 12.6% 6.1%
Caring, leisure and other service occupations 3.9% 4.4%
Elementary occupations 5.1% 4.8%
Managers, directors and senior officials 8.7% 6.0%
Does not apply 38.5% 53.4%
Process, plant and machine operatives 1.8% 3.2%
Professional occupations 20.0% 9.4%
Sales and customer service occupations 2.8% 3.5%
Skilled trades occupations 2.5% 4.8%

Disabled under the Equality Act

12.5%

17.7% national average

Ethnicity

This area National average
Asian / Asian British 5.7% 8.1%
Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups 7.4% 2.8%
Other ethnic groups 5.3% 1.8%
Other White 17.2% 6.3%
White British 41.4% 77.5%

General Health

This area National average
Bad or very bad health 3.6% 5.3%
Fair health 9.0% 12.8%
Very good or good health 87.4% 81.9%

Have missed a bill payment in the last six months

44%

31.5% national average

Have missed a credit payment in the last six months

30.7%

23.6% national average

Have missed a rent payment in the last six months

34.6%

19.0% national average

Have not been able to afford to turn the heating on at home when they have felt cold in the past month

38.3%

37.5% national average

Main Language

This area National average
African languages 1.6% 0.3%
Asian languages 1.6% 3.0%
English or Welsh 82.1% 88.9%
European languages (EU) 10.9% 3.8%
Does not apply 2.7% 3.1%
North or South American languages 0.0% 0.0%
Oceanic or Australian languages 0% 0.0%
Any other languages 0.8% 0.6%
Other European languages (non-EU) 0.3% 0.1%
Any other UK languages 0.0% 0.0%
Sign and supported languages 0.1% 0.0%

Travel to work method

This area National average
Bicycle 3.3% 0.9%
Bus, minibus or coach 6.2% 1.8%
Driving a car or van 4.7% 21.3%
On foot 3.0% 3.5%
Work mainly at or from home 33.5% 14.5%
Underground, metro, light rail, tram 7.6% 0.7%
Motorcycle, scooter or moped 0.4% 0.2%
Not in employment or aged 15 years and under 38.5% 53.4%
Other method of travel to work 0.5% 0.5%
Passenger in a car or van 0.3% 1.8%
Taxi 0.3% 0.3%
Train 1.8% 0.8%

Worried about having to use a foodbank in the next year

34.8%

28.7% national average

Worried about not being able to afford their mortgage or rent in the next year

53.3%

40.0% national average

Country of the UK

England

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

2

2.8 national average

Public opinion

Do you think immigration has generally enriched or undermined society?

This area National average
Enriched 62.6% 37.2%
Neither 10.6% 12.5%
Undermined 26.8% 47.3%

Should the welfare system be expanded to help more people, or reduced to make benefits harder to get?

This area National average
Expanded 52.5% 34.1%
Neither 12.9% 11.5%
Reduced 34.7% 51.5%

Would you be comfortable paying more tax, if it meant more money were invested in public services like the NHS and education?

This area National average
Comfortable 62.3% 44.3%
Neither 4.2% 6.0%
Uncomfortable 33.5% 46.8%

Would you be comfortable with government debt going up, provided that money were invested in the economy and local services?

This area National average
Comfortable 65.1% 52.5%
Neither 5.2% 7.6%
Uncomfortable 29.7% 37.0%

Would you support or oppose the building of new housing in your area?

This area National average
Neither 13.6% 21.1%
Oppose 5.4% 17.8%
Support 80.9% 58.2%

Second placed party at most recent election

Liberal Democrats

Loss of nature and destruction of the environment should be one of the most important concerns for the country

This area National average
Net agree 75.6% 72.6%
Net disagree 5.6% 8.7%
Strongly agree 34.6% 33.8%
Partly agree 42% 38.8%
Neither agree nor disagree 18.4% 18.7%
Partly disagree 4% 5.9%
Strongly disagree 1% 2.7%

Policies for tackling the cost of living crisis should go hand in hand with policies to tackle the climate crisis

This area National average
Net agree 70% 58.9%
Net disagree 10% 17.6%
Strongly agree 30.4% 24.2%
Somewhat agree 40.1% 34.7%
Neither agree nor disagree 20.4% 23.4%
Somewhat disagree 6% 10.5%
Strongly disagree 3.6% 7.1%

Tackling climate change should / should not be one of the Government’s biggest priorities right now

This area National average
Should be a priority 64% 57.5%
Should not be a priority 36% 42.5%

Neither support nor oppose Net Zero

23%

26.2% national average

Believe that the government should continue the block on onshore wind development

32.3%

24.3% national average

Believe that the government should use wind and solar farms to reduce energy bills

81.8%

84.3% national average

Believe the government has increased investment in renewables over the past 5 years

47.7%

52.0% national average

Movement

Churches that have declared a climate emergency

0

0.2 national average

Number of RSPB Reserves

0

0.3 national average

Number of Save the Children shops

1

0.2 national average

Number of Wildlife Trusts Reserves

0

2.4 national average

Number of Women’s Institute groups