Aylesbury Vale Councillor Update Economic Profile of Edlesborough Ward
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Aylesbury Vale Councillor Update Economic Profile of Edlesborough Ward April 2014 Produced by Buckinghamshire Business First’s research department P a g e | 2 1.0 Introduction Edlesborough is home to 2,847 people and provides 600 jobs in 123 businesses. Of these businesses, 8 (6.5 per cent) are Buckinghamshire Business First members. There were 1,403 employed people aged 16-74 living in Aston Clinton ward at the 2011 Census, 119 fewer than the 1,522 recorded in 2001. Over that period the working age population fell 183 to 1,787 while the total population fell 123 to 2,847. The number of households rose by 13 (1.1 per cent) to 1,178 and only places the ward 25th out of all wards in Aylesbury Vale. The ward is ranked 91st out of all wards in the county for growth in the number of households. The largest companies in Edlesborough include: Thameside Construction; Travellers Rest; Whipsnade Park Golf Club; B S Trailer Services Ltd; Broomstick Car & Commercials Ltd; Edlesborough School; and Edlesborough Surgery. There are 13 Edlesborough, representing 0.7 per cent of working age residents, including five claimants aged 18-24 and ten who have been claiming for less than six months. Superfast broadband is expected to be available to 84 per cent of premises in the Edlesborough ward by March 2016 with commercial providers responsible for 0 per cent. The Connected Counties project, run by BBF, deliver the remaining 84 per cent through its interventions in the Eaton Bray and Little Gaddesdon exchange areas. BBF is seeking to deliver an extended superfast footprint via additional funding, adaptation of downstream technology and contract claw-back mechanism. At the time of the 2001 Censusi, of the 1,585 employed residents, 418 people lived and worked in the ward, with the most common destinations by local authority district being: Aylesbury Vale (534, 33.7 per cent) Central Bedfordshire (267, 16.8) Dacorum (219, 13.8) Luton (100, 6.3) Milton Keynes (82, 5.2) St Albans (34, 2.1) Westminster (30, 1.9) Welwyn Hatfield (27, 1.7) P a g e | 3 2.0 Industrial structure There are 123 businesses located in Edlesborough employing 600 people. Of these businesses,109 are micro businesses, employing fewer than 10 people. Edlesborough industrial make-up is over-represented most notably in construction and motor trades. Construction contributes to 16.2 per cent of employment in the ward which ranks it 565th out of all wards for employment in the sector. Motors trades accounts for 4.9 per cent of employment in the ward which ranks Edlesborough 987th out of all wards. Other sectors which are significantly over-represented in Edlesborough are property (3.5 per cent), business administration & support (14.0 per cent) and Information & communication which accounts for 6.3 per cent of employment. Chart 1: Industrial Structure Index, 2012 (GB=100) Manufacturing Construction Motor trades Wholesale Retail Transport & storage Accommodation & food services Information & communication Financial & insurance Property Professional, scientific & technical Business administration & support services Public administration & defence Education Health Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Source: BRES, ONS, 2013 The manufacturing sector accounts for only 0.9 per cent of employment in Edlesborough ranking it 7,100th out of all wards. In a similar fashion, wholesale accounts for only 0.7 per cent of employment and public administration & defence accounts for only 0.3 per cent of employment ranking the sectors at 6,676th and 4,454th respectively. P a g e | 4 2.1 The Industrial Strategy and the Plan for Growth Plan for Growth and the Industrial Strategy set out policies to realise this objective and to rebalance the economy, which include focusing on sectors expected to deliver strong -represented in these sectors, particularly aerospace, the information economy and professional and business services. While Edlesborough provides jobs in these sectors, the industrial strategy sector where the ward delivers the highest share of national employment is construction, which accounts for 14.0 per cent of employment, ranking Edlesborough at 757th among English wards. The proportions of jobs in Edlesborough in Industrial Strategy sectors are presented in Table 1. Table 1: Employment in selected industrial strategy sectors, 2012 Education Professional and BusinessServices Construction Information Economy Aylesbury Vale 10.1 16.3 5.4 2.7 Buckinghamshire 9.3 15.0 5.5 4.4 England 4.6 12.9 4.6 3.0 Edlesborough 10.5 12.4 14.0 2.8 Source: BRES, ONS, 2013 At 10.5 per cent, the proportion of Edlesborough education sector is the 3,927th highest of all wards in England, the proportion is above that of both the country level and the district level. 3.0 Labour market At 67.3 per cent of 16-74 year olds, Edlesborough in the country. Edlesborough has a proportion of 36.7 per cent of its residents qualified to degree level or higher. Furthermore, 55.9 per cent work in managerial, professional or technical occupations. In Aylesbury Vale the wards most similar to Edlesborough are Aston Clinton, Tingewick and Quainton with 18 of the other 35 wards among the top thousand closest matches. The least similar ward in the district is Southcourt, one of three wards in Aylesbury to rank lower than the 6,000th closest match along with Gatehouse and Quarrendon. P a g e | 5 Table 2: Edlesborough Self-employed 1-3 SOCs NVQ4+ age Working Employmentrate Ward Name Home from Work Edlesborough 8.3 16.6 55.9 36.7 62.8 67.3 Aston Clinton 7.1 15.0 55.3 36.6 62.7 68.9 Quainton 9.5 20.0 54.6 38.9 61.7 67.2 Tingewick 9.8 17.6 53.5 35.8 62.1 71.0 Long Crendon 9.1 16.6 57.5 42.3 61.0 68.8 Haddenham 7.9 15.1 54.9 40.4 60.8 68.8 Source: Census, 2011 Edlesborough has a high level of those who work from home and are self-employed. Furthermore, as stated previously, the ward has a high level of those educated to degree level or higher and those working in managerial, professional and technical roles. Edlesborough looks to have fairly high employment rate and average level of working age residents. Chart 2: Edlesborough Work from Home 100 75 Employment rate 50 Self-employed 25 0 Working age SOCs 1-3 NVQ4+ Source: Census, 2011 P a g e | 6 4.0 Occupational Structure Edlesborough occupational structure is skewed towards the higher skilled and better remunerated occupations, with 55.9 per cent of working residents employed in managerial, professional and technical occupations, ranking in the top quartile nationally each. In contrast Edlesborough ranks in the bottom quartile for other occupations, with only 4.9 pe cent, 3.6 per cent and 5.2 per cent of working residents employed in sales/customer service, process plant and machinery operating and elementary occupations respectively. Chart 3: Edlesborough 1. Managers, directors and senior officials 100 9. Elementary occupations 2. Professional occupations 75 50 8. Process plant and machine 25 3. Associate professional and operatives technical occupations 0 7. Sales and customer service 4. Administrative and secretarial occupations occupations 6. Caring, leisure and other 5. Skilled trades occupations service occupations Source: Census, ONS, 2011 5.0 Deprivation Buckinghamshire has the lowest level of economic deprivation of any Local Enterprise Partnership, with Aylesbury Vale having the 37th lowest economic deprivation of all 326 local authority districts in England, behind South Bucks (10th) and Chiltern (13th) but ahead of Wycombe (69th). Chart 4 wards among the least deprived in England with 17 of the 36 wards featuring among the least deprived 10 per cent of all wards in England and only six ranking among the most deprived half of English wards, a stark contrast to the London Borough of Newham where no ward ranks above halfway, highlighting the challenge Aylesbury Vale faces to attract resource tackle deprivation. P a g e | 7 Edlesborough has the 491st lowest economic deprivation of the 7,707 wards in England and the 7th least economically deprived of the 36 Aylesbury Vale wards. Edlesborough is the 31st least economically deprived among the 108 ward in Buckinghamshire. The position of ds in England is shown in below, with Edlesborough one of Chart 4: Relative economic deprivation of Aylesbury Vale wards by English decile, 2009 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Most Least deprived deprived Source: DCLG, 2012 Edlesborough ranks 7,550th out of all wards in England based on the Index of Multiple Deprivationii; this makes it among the least deprived decile in England, well above Aylesbury Vale 6006th, demonstrating that the ward is less deprived than the district as a whole. P a g e | 8 Chart 5: Comparative deprivation by IMD domain in Edlesborough IMD 100.0 Living environment 75.0 Income 50.0 25.0 Crime 0.0 Employment Housing Health Education Source: DCLG, 2010 The wards in Aylesbury Vale most closely matching Edlesborough deprivation profile are presented in Table 3. Nationally, the closest matches are Orwell & Barrington (South Cambridgeshire), Hutton South (Brentwood) and North Hinksey & Wytham (Vale of White Horse, while Weedon and Aston Clinton are the most similar in Aylesbury Vale ranking as the 120th and 173rd most similar of all English wards. Of the 36 Aylesbury Vale wards 21 are among the 1,000 best matches including three in the top 200, however Southcourt is only the 6,275th closest match. Table 3: Deprivation Nearest Neighbours Income Employment Health Education Housing Crime Living environment Ward IMD Edlesborough 4.2 6.0 2.3 5.6 9.6 68.2 30.5 31.2 Weedon 13.6 22.8 2.8 1.8 7.0 85.9 33.6 32.8 Aston Clinton 6.5 6.5 8.3 8.4 15.0 73.7 37.3 3.7 Long Crendon 6.5 8.9 2.7 10.2 16.4 65.7 12.9 8.4 Haddenham 5.7 7.6 4.8 12.6 14.8 55.2 16.5 8.2 Waddesdon 18.3 17.9 11.0 14.3 27.6 67.0 24.8 43.1 Source: DCLG, 2010 P a g e | 9 6.0 Demography At 42.7 years, Edlesborough above the 40.0 recorded across Aylesbury Vale as well as the county average of 41.0.