Who does the market serve?
Residents
Brixton has a diverse population ethnically, culturally and socio-economically. The market potentially serves everyone in one way or another.
Brixton market is in the middle of Brixton, surrounded by residential areas.
Lambeth First: State of the Borough Report 2010
The Lambeth First Strategic Partnership has a detailed report showing key statistics:
State of the Borough Report 2010 (pdf)
Census 2001
Lambeth Council's website has information from the 2001 Census.
CACI Acorn
Another possibly useful way to understand Brixton residents is is to look at the CACI Acorn website, which classifies population into a range of categories.
To use the CACI site, you have to sign up, but it's free. You can then type in Brixton postcodes and see who CACI thinks are the majority inhabitants of that area. It then gives you detailed demographic and lifestyle information for that type.
According to CACI, the residents surrounding central Brixton include:
- "Hard Pressed, Inner City Adversity, Multi-ethnic purpose built estates"
- "Urban Prosperity, Aspiring Singles, Singles & sharers, multi-ethnic areas"
- "Urban Prosperity, Educated Urbanites, Affluent urban professionals, flats"
Visitors
Brixton Market also attracts people from further afield.
Many people of African or Caribbean origin travel to Brixton from across London to shop here, and there is also some tourist trade. In recent years there is some growing gastronomic food-tourism, particularly seeking out the Franco Manca pizzas which opened in 2008.