Nappy Valley

Nappy Valley is a term or epithet applied to various places to denote a particularly high local reproductive demographic profile. It references "Happy Valley" in Kenya, an area noted for its wealthy white population before independence and where much of the film "White Mischief" is set.

Battersea, SW11, London, England

The term is applied to a specific area of Battersea, between Clapham Common and Wandsworth Common, South London with extremely high birth rates and a "cafe culture" of middle-class, affluent families. This area, specifically Northcote Road, lies at the bottom of a physical valley, with the River Falcon still running below the Northcote Road having been culverted by the Victorians in the late 19th Century.

The London Borough of Wandsworth had the highest birth rate in Europe in 2004^{[citation needed]}. This contrasts for example with neighbouring Clapham in the London Borough of Lambeth which has a very high proportion of single or childless young professionals.^{[citation needed]}

Northcote Road, is also labelled 'Nappy Valley' by Will Self in his February 2010 London Review of Books Diary entry. ^[1].

Tuggeranong Valley, Australian Capital Territory

Tuggeranong is the southernmost town centre of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. It comprises 19 suburbs with a total of 31,819 dwellings, housing 87,119 people of the 324,034 people in the Australian Capital Territory (2006 Census). The district occupies 117 square kilometres (45 sq mi)to the east of the Murrumbidgee River. On 1973-02-21, the third of the new towns planned for Canberra was inaugurated at Tuggeranong, based on planning begun in 1969 to house between 180,000 to 220,000 people. The first families moved in to the suburb of Kambah in 1974. The new town centre, composed largely of young families, soon became known locally as "nappy valley".^[2][3]

References

• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2098-1780634,00.html
• http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,,1736818,00.html
• http://money.guardian.co.uk/experts/mortgage/story/0,,1380577,00.html
• http://www.nappyvalleynet.com

1. ^ http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n04/will-self/diary
2. ^ Tuggeranong 55 Plus Club, media release 2008-06-11, Jon Stanhope, Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, accessed 2009-12-11
3. ^ Rebuilding Canberra's spirit (reflecting on the 2003 Canberra bushfires), Jack Waterford, Griffith Review edn 2, accessed 2009-12-11