Coat of Arms of the Borough
Profile of the Borough
The borough covers an area of 5,095 hectares (14,591 acres) in southwest London and is the only London borough spanning both sides of the Thames, with river frontage of 21 1/2 miles.
There are about a dozen towns and villages, although more than a third of its land is open space (including Richmond Park, Bushy Park and Kew Gardens).
View a full version of the Borough Profile 2012
(pdf, 596KB) (updated March 2012).
Borough Profile 2010(pdf, 80KB) (updated November 2010).
The LBRuT Equality Mapping and Profile was produced in late 2011 to improve current understanding of the equalities strands within Richmond upon Thames through the identification, mapping and profiling of national and local equality data sources and the consolidation of these findings into one comprehensive baseline for equality.