Lewsey Ward Profile April 2019
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Lewsey ward profile April 2019 Business Intelligence | Luton Council Visit our information observatory | Visit our council website Contents Summary for Lewsey .................................................................................................................................... 3 Demographics .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Mid-year population estimates .................................................................................................................. 5 Age breakdown ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Population by ethnicity .............................................................................................................................. 6 Deprivation ................................................................................................................................................... 7 Economic Activity ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Employment .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Claimant count .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Crime .......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Burglary .................................................................................................................................................. 10 Hate crime .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Anti-social behaviour (ASB) .................................................................................................................... 11 Fly tipping ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Perceptions of Luton ................................................................................................................................... 12 Education (2017 results) ............................................................................................................................. 15 Early Years ............................................................................................................................................. 15 Key stage 1 ............................................................................................................................................. 16 Key stage 2 ............................................................................................................................................. 17 Key stage 4 ............................................................................................................................................. 18 Health ......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Low birth weight ...................................................................................................................................... 19 General health ........................................................................................................................................ 19 Obesity ................................................................................................................................................... 20 Life expectancy ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Causes of death ...................................................................................................................................... 21 Housing ...................................................................................................................................................... 22 Number of households ............................................................................................................................ 22 Type of household spaces ...................................................................................................................... 22 Tenure .................................................................................................................................................... 23 Social rented households ........................................................................................................................ 24 Average house prices ............................................................................................................................. 25 Occupancy levels .................................................................................................................................... 26 Appendix .................................................................................................................................................... 27 2 of 27 Lewsey ward profile v4.0 – April 2019 Summary for Lewsey These series of reports provide a summary of the latest available information on the demographic and socio-economic make-up of the nineteen wards in Luton. It looks at the population structure and provides information on the economic, housing and educational achievement of each ward. What’s new – April 2019: Perceptions survey update (i) Lewsey’s view of Luton: 10 per cent feel the image of Luton has improved over the last year 22 per cent feel positive about the future of this town Residents top rated aspects: 1. Schools (90%) 2. Further / higher education (76%) 3. Childcare for young children / Sports and leisure facilities (58%) November 2018: Housing there are 74,293 households in Luton of which 4,927 (6.6 per cent) are in Lewsey almost half of all household space in Lewsey is semi-detached, followed by 30.4 per cent terraced (ii) the most common tenure in Lewsey is households owned with a mortgage accounting for 36.1 per cent followed by 22.9 per cent rented from council (iii) Lewsey has the second highest levels of social rented households in Luton with 27.9 per cent. The lowest is in Barnfield with 1.5 per cent and highest in Northwell with 33.8 per cent (iv) the average three bedroom house in Luton in October 2018, cost £280,000 compared to £260,000 in Lewsey (v) Lewsey has 11.7 per cent overcrowding, compared to Luton’s average of 15.4 per cent (vi) August 2018: Health Lewsey had a higher than average level of low birth weights over the 5 year period with 9.8 per cent, Luton’s average was 9.1 per cent (vii) in the 2011 census, the percentage of people who self-reported bad or very bad health in Lewsey was 5.9 per cent (as a percentage of the total number of people who responded to this question) (viii) obesity levels in Lewsey for children was around the same as Luton’s average, however adults was one of the highest; with 29.2 per cent of adults being obese (ix) the average life expectancy in Luton for females is 82.4 and male 78.5; Lewsey was around the same with 83.2 and 77.1 respectively (x) the highest number of deaths recorded was circulatory disease followed closely by cancer; coronary heart disease was the highest in Lewsey compared to the others wards in Luton (xi) 3 of 27 Lewsey ward profile v4.0 – April 2019 April 2018: Demographics (xii) Lewsey ward is located in the north west of the borough the population of Lewsey (based on mid-year estimate 2016) is just over 13,000, accounting for six per cent of Luton’s population Lewsey has a higher proportion of residents aged above 75 in comparison to the rest of Luton residents aged between 18 and 44 accounts for only 34.7 per cent Population (xiii) the white (British, Scottish, N. Irish, Welsh) population of Lewsey consists of 54.2 per cent, compared to 44.6 per cent in Luton the next highest proportion of those living in Lewsey is Black (Caribbean / African) accounting for 16.5 per cent Deprivation (xiv) the 2015 indices of multiple deprivation identified that the majority of Lewsey is in top 20-50 per cent most deprived nationally the percentage of children living in poverty after housing costs is 30-35 per cent Economic activity Lewsey has a very similar economic makeup as the rest of Luton with a slightly higher proportion of economically active individuals (xv) there is a lower than average level of professional and managerial occupations, in contrast skilled trades and elementary occupations are slightly higher than average for Luton at the start of 2018, there were 150 people claiming unemployment benefit, a rate of 1.9 per cent (the average rate for Luton is 1.8 per cent, which has gone down since 2016) (xvi) Crime (xvii) during 2016 and 2017, Lewsey had the second highest number of burglaries with 157 incidents there were also 22 incidents of hate crime and 384 cases of ASB reported in the same year fly tipping was also fairly high compared to the rest of the borough, with 318 incidents reported Perceptions of Luton (xviii) From wave 2 of the perceptions survey, it was identified that: under half of Lewsey’s population were