page_title: Telegraph Hill, Lewisham
section_title: Demography
hierarchical_section_title: Telegraph Hill, Lewisham / Demography
caption_attribution_description: English: The Equiano monument in the lower park on Telegraph Hill, Lewisham, London. See also more information about the monument and about Equiano.
context_page_description: Telegraph Hill is a largely residential conservation area bounded by Nunhead and Brockley and is an electoral ward just south of New Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham in southeast London, England.
context_section_description: In comparison with overall numbers for London and England, the Telegraph Hill ward had relatively few  residents of over 45 in 2011 (26.2% compared to 32.3% in London and 41.7% in England; up from 24.9% in 2001) and relatively many in the age group 20-44 (50.1%; up from 49.0% in 2001).
  According to the 2011 census, 10,356 (63.1%) of the residents were born in the United Kingdom - close to the 63.3% in London as a whole, compared to 86.2% nationally. 613 residents (or 3.7%) were born in Jamaica, and 683 (or 4.2%) in Nigeria; other countries of birth constituted smaller shares of the population. 50.6% of the population were white; 30.0% black; 7.7% Asian; and 7.9% mixed.
  The census identified 10.8% of residents aged 16–74 as being in higher managerial, administrative or professional occupations; a further 24.1% were in "lower managerial and professional occupations"; 14.6% of residents were full-time students; and 8.2% had never worked or were long-term unemployed. In comparison to overall numbers for London and England, there is a high proportion of non-pensioner one-person households (25.9% of households) and lone parent households with dependent children (10.7%), compared to national averages (17.9% and 7.1%, respectively).  As a residential area, population density of Telegraph Hill (106.3 persons per hectare) is more than twice the average density of London (52 persons per hectare).
caption: The lower park on Telegraph Hill features a monument to anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, created in 2008 by children from the Edmund Waller School.
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