Census 2021 puts Oval at 3,633 households with a median age of 32.5. The Georgian and early Victorian stock is social-housing-led, which is why 23% houses and 77% flats need different handling in SE11.
Private renting sits at 34% and owner-occupation at 28%; the first group books green waste removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Oval substrates run to often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — which is why London Borough of Lambeth kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SE11, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — where 28% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a SE11 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Oval: the cricket ground, the gasholders and Georgian terraces running back towards Kennington Park. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Oval sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Match-day road closures around the ground, red routes on Kennington Park Road and permit-only side streets. Nearest station is Oval (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.
