Census 2021 puts Old Street at 4,949 households with a median age of 31.5. The post-war stock is social-housing-led, which is why 2% houses and 98% flats need different handling in EC1V.
Private renting sits at 28% and owner-occupation at 19%; the first group books green waste removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Old Street, often with surface conduit — with 52% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first, so the fixing that matters in Old Street is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in EC1V, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 4,949 households inside the EC1V neighbourhood.
Two streets can behave very differently in Old Street: the roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Old Street sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. Nearest station is Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), and two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run.
