2011 Census Equalities Information

The following equalities profile of has been produced from information published in the 2011 Census.

Age profile:

• Total population: 90,254 • 17.3% aged between 0 and 14 • 12.8% aged between 15 and 24 • 25.8% aged between 25 and 44 • 27.0% aged between 45 and 64 • 17.1% aged 65+

Gender:

• 48.8% of the population is Male • 51.2% of the population is Female

Ethnicity:

• Total Residents: 90,254 • All White groups: 93.8% • All Mixed / multiple ethnic groups: 2.1% • All Asian / Asian British groups: 2.3% • All Black / African / Caribbean / Black British groups: 1.1% • All Other ethnic groups: 0.6%

Religion:

• Christian: 51.9% • Jewish: 0.2% • Buddhist: 0.5% • Muslim: 1.3% • Hindu: 0.5% • Sikh: 0% • Other: 0.7% • No religion: 36.6% • Religion not stated: 8.3%

Long-term health problem or disability:

• Day-to-day activities limited a lot: 10.6% • Day-to-day activities limited a little: 11.5% • Day-to-day activities not limited: 77.9%

Age profile The age profile for Hastings is similar to the profile for and Wales, and slightly younger than the rest of the county. The average age of Hastings residents was 40.2 years, compared with 39.4 for England and Wales, and 43.6 for the county.

Age data has been grouped into five bands. The proportion of residents in the youngest 3 bands was higher in Hastings than any other district in the county. These were 0 - 14 (17.3%), 15 - 24 (12.8%) and 25 - 44 (25.8%). The proportion of residents in the oldest age band - 65 and over was the lowest of any district in the county (17.1%). These proportions are closer to national levels than to the county average.

Age bands were set from availability of census data and also to fit with services equalities monitoring information.

Source: Table KS102EW 2011 Census: Age structure, local authorities in England and Wales England & South East Hastings Rother Wealden Wales East Total 56,075,912 8,634,750 526,671 99,412 90,254 97,502 90,588 148,915 residents 0 - 14 17.6% 17.8% 16.1% 15.7% 17.3% 16.2% 14.6% 16.5% 15 - 24 13.1% 12.5% 11.0% 12.4% 12.8% 10.5% 9.6% 10.1% 25 - 44 27.4% 26.5% 22.1% 24.4% 25.8% 22.1% 18.1% 20.9% 45 - 64 25.4% 26.1% 28.0% 25.1% 27.0% 28.5% 29.3% 29.5% 65+ 16.4% 17.2% 22.7% 22.4% 17.1% 22.7% 28.4% 22.9%

Mean 39.4 40.0 43.6 42.8 40.2 43.7 47.2 44.0 age Median 39 40 45 43 41 45 50 46 age

Gender

• 48.8% of the population is Male • 51.2% of the population is Female

Source: Table KS101EW 2011 Census: Usual resident population, local authorities in England and Wales England & South East Eastbourne Hastings Lewes Rother Wealden Wales Total residents 56,075,912 8,634,750 526,671 99,412 90,254 97,502 90,588 148,915 Males 49.2% 49.1% 48.2% 47.8% 48.8% 48.6% 47.5% 48.2% Females 50.8% 50.9% 51.8% 52.2% 51.2% 51.4% 52.5% 51.8% Lives in a 98.2% 97.8% 97.9% 97.5% 98.1% 98.3% 97.3% 98.1% household Lives in a communal 1.8% 2.2% 2.1% 2.5% 1.9% 1.7% 2.7% 1.9% establishment Area 15,101,354 1,906,965 170,855 4,416 2,972 29,207 50,943 83,317 Density 3.7 4.5 3.1 22.5 30.4 3.3 1.8 1.8

Ethnicity 89.3% of Hastings identified themselves as White British. The next largest category was White Other (3.5%), followed by Other Asian (1.0%). The overall White group including White British, Irish and Other made up 93.8% of Hastings residents. The next largest overall grouping was Asian / Asian British (2.3%), followed by mixed / multiple ethnic group (2.1%) then Black / African / Caribbean (1.1%).

White British and White Other were the two largest categories nationally, in the South East and in the county, with Asian / Asian British the second largest overall grouping in all areas. The proportion of Asian / Asian British was largest nationally (7.5%), lower in the South East (5.2%), and lower again in the county (1.8%). Hastings and Eastbourne had the greatest diversity of ethnic groupings in the county.

Source: Table KS201EW 2011 Census: Ethnic group, local authorities in England and Wales England & South East Eastbourne Hastings Lewes Rother Wealden Wales East Sussex Total Residents 56,075,912 8,634,750 526,671 99,412 90,254 97,502 90,588 148,915 White: English /Welsh /Scottish 80.5% 85.2% 91.7% 87.4% 89.3% 92.5% 94.1% 93.8% /Northern Irish/British White: Irish 0.9% 0.9% 0.8% 1.0% 0.8% 0.8% 0.7% 0.6% England & South East Eastbourne Hastings Lewes Rother Wealden Wales East Sussex White: Gypsy or 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% Irish Traveller White: Other 4.4% 4.4% 3.4% 5.6% 3.5% 3.2% 2.1% 2.8% White Mixed/multiple ethnic group: White and 0.8% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.7% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% Black Caribbean Mixed/multiple ethnic group: 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% White and Black African Mixed/multiple ethnic group: 0.6% 0.7% 0.5% 0.6% 0.6% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% White and Asian Mixed/multiple ethnic group: 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.5% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% Other Mixed Asian/Asian 2.5% 1.8% 0.4% 0.7% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% British: Indian Asian/Asian British: 2.0% 1.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% Pakistani Asian/Asian British: 0.8% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% Bangladeshi Asian/Asian 0.7% 0.6% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% British: Chinese Asian/Asian British: Other 1.5% 1.4% 0.7% 1.1% 1.0% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% Asian Black /African /Caribbean 1.8% 1.0% 0.3% 0.5% 0.7% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% /Black British: African Black /African /Caribbean 1.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% /Black British: Caribbean Black /African /Caribbean 0.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% /Black British: Other Black Other ethnic 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% group: Arab England & South East Eastbourne Hastings Lewes Rother Wealden Wales East Sussex Other ethnic group: Any 0.6% 0.4% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% other ethnic group

Religion Locally and nationally the main religion stated was Christian, reported by over 50% in all districts in the county as well as the South East and Nationally, followed by 'No religion' and then by no response. Hastings had the lowest proportion of residents identifying themselves as Christian of the districts in the county (51.9%), and the highest proportion identifying themselves as 'No religion' (36.6%).

The proportion of residents stating other religions were similar in Hastings to the rest of the county, but lower than national levels, with Muslim the highest at 1.3% locally, which was also the highest in the county at 0.8%, as well as nationally at 4.8%.

Source: Table KS209EW 2011 Census: Religion, local authorities in England and Wales England & South East Eastbourne Hastings Lewes Rother Wealden Wales East Sussex Total Residents 56,075,912 8,634,750 526,671 99,412 90,254 97,502 90,588 148,915 Christian 59.3% 59.8% 59.9% 59.6% 51.9% 57.0% 64.8% 64.0% Buddhist 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% Hindu 1.5% 1.1% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% Jewish 0.5% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% Muslim 4.8% 2.3% 0.8% 1.5% 1.3% 0.6% 0.5% 0.4% Sikh 0.8% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Other religion 0.4% 0.5% 0.7% 0.6% 0.7% 0.6% 0.6% 0.8% No religion 25.1% 27.7% 29.6% 29.2% 36.6% 32.5% 25.2% 26.3% Religion not 7.2% 7.4% 8.1% 8.0% 8.3% 8.2% 8.2% 7.9% stated

Long-term health problem or disability Around 20% of people said that they are limited a little or a lot by long term health problems or disability at local and national level. Hastings had the second highest proportion at 22.1%, after Rother at 23.5%. For the county overall 20.4% reported being limited, and nationally 17.9%, but in the South East only 15.7%.

6.6% of Hastings residents aged 16 - 74 were not working due to long term illness or disability. This is the highest for any district in the county, and higher than the county average of 4.1%, the national rate of 4.2% or the South East rate of 2.9%.

Source: Table KS301EW 2011 Census: Health and provision of unpaid care, local authorities in England and Wales England & South East Eastbourne Hastings Lewes Rother Wealden Wales East Sussex Total Residents 56,075,912 8,634,750 526,671 99,412 90,254 97,502 90,588 148,915 Day-to-day activities 8.5% 6.9% 9.2% 9.7% 10.6% 8.7% 10.7% 7.3% limited a lot Day-to-day activities 9.4% 8.8% 11.2% 11.3% 11.5% 10.9% 12.8% 10.2% limited a little Day-to-day activities 82.1% 84.3% 79.7% 79.0% 77.9% 80.5% 76.6% 82.5% not limited Day-to-day activities limited a lot: Age 16 3.7% 2.7% 3.5% 3.7% 5.4% 3.2% 3.6% 2.5% to 64 Day-to-day activities limited a little: Age 4.7% 4.1% 4.7% 4.8% 6.2% 4.5% 4.8% 3.9% 16 to 64 Day-to-day activities not limited: Age 16 56.3% 57.0% 51.7% 52.2% 52.8% 52.1% 47.5% 52.9% to 64 Very good health 47.1% 49.0% 43.8% 43.1% 40.5% 44.8% 40.6% 47.6% Good health 34.1% 34.6% 35.6% 35.4% 36.2% 35.5% 36.6% 34.9% Fair health 13.2% 12.0% 14.8% 15.3% 15.8% 14.3% 16.5% 13.0% Bad health 4.3% 3.4% 4.5% 4.7% 5.7% 4.2% 4.9% 3.5% Very bad health 1.3% 1.0% 1.3% 1.4% 1.7% 1.2% 1.4% 1.0% Provides no unpaid 89.7% 90.2% 88.7% 89.4% 89.5% 88.2% 87.6% 88.8% care Provides 1 to 19 hours unpaid care a 6.5% 6.7% 7.5% 6.7% 6.3% 8.2% 8.0% 8.0% week Provides 20 to 49 hours unpaid care a 1.4% 1.1% 1.3% 1.3% 1.5% 1.2% 1.4% 1.2% week Provides 50 or more hours unpaid care a 2.4% 2.0% 2.5% 2.6% 2.7% 2.4% 3.0% 2.1% week

Source: Table KS601EW 2011 Census: Economic activity, local authorities in England and Wales England & South East Eastbourne Hastings Lewes Rother Wealden Wales East Sussex Residents aged 16 - 41,126,540 6,274,341 374,518 70,473 66,036 69,269 62,861 105,879 74 Economically active: 13.7% 13.8% 14.7% 14.8% 14.8% 15.3% 13.8% 14.8% Employee: Part-time Economically active: 38.5% 40.4% 33.5% 35.0% 33.5% 34.3% 29.4% 34.4% Employee: Full-time Economically active: 9.7% 11.0% 13.4% 10.3% 11.2% 13.9% 14.8% 15.7% Self-employed Economically active: 4.4% 3.4% 3.6% 4.1% 5.5% 3.3% 3.2% 2.5% Unemployed Economically active: 3.4% 3.3% 2.8% 3.8% 2.8% 2.7% 2.1% 2.6% Full-time student Economically 13.8% 13.7% 17.8% 16.8% 14.3% 17.6% 22.5% 18.0% inactive: Retired Economically inactive: Student 5.8% 5.2% 4.0% 5.2% 4.1% 3.7% 3.8% 3.4% (including full-time students) Economically inactive: Looking 4.3% 4.4% 4.2% 3.8% 4.7% 3.9% 4.3% 4.3% after home or family Economically inactive: Long-term 4.2% 2.9% 4.1% 4.5% 6.6% 3.5% 4.1% 2.7% sick or disabled Economically 2.2% 1.8% 1.8% 1.8% 2.5% 1.8% 1.9% 1.5% inactive: Other Unemployed: Age 1.2% 0.9% 1.0% 1.1% 1.6% 1.0% 0.9% 0.7% 16 to 24 Unemployed: Age 0.8% 0.7% 0.8% 0.9% 1.0% 0.8% 0.8% 0.7% 50 to 74 Unemployed: Never 0.7% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.8% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% worked Long-term 1.7% 1.3% 1.5% 1.7% 2.4% 1.3% 1.3% 0.9% unemployed