Dallow Ward Profile April 2019
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Dallow ward profile April 2019 Business Intelligence | Luton Council Visit our information observatory | Visit our council website Contents Summary for Dallow ..................................................................................................................................... 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 Health ......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Low birth weight ...................................................................................................................................... 18 General health ........................................................................................................................................ 18 Obesity ................................................................................................................................................... 19 Life expectancy ....................................................................................................................................... 19 Causes of death ...................................................................................................................................... 20 Housing ...................................................................................................................................................... 21 Number of households ............................................................................................................................ 21 Type of household spaces ...................................................................................................................... 21 Tenure .................................................................................................................................................... 22 Social rented households ........................................................................................................................ 23 Average house prices ............................................................................................................................. 24 Occupancy levels .................................................................................................................................... 25 Appendix .................................................................................................................................................... 26 2 of 26 Dallow ward profile v4.0 – April 2019 Summary for Dallow 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) Dallow’s view of Luton: 28 per cent feel the image of Luton has improved over the last year 44 per cent feel positive about the future of this town Residents top rated aspects: 1. Health services (73%) 2. Sports and leisure facilities (63%) 3. The town centre (58%) November 2018: Housing there are 74,293 households in Luton of which 4,584 (6.2 per cent) are in Dallow the most common type of household space for Dallow is terraced with 46.4 per cent (ii) the most common tenure in Dallow is households rented from private landlord with 34.4 per cent, following by 29.6 per cent of households owned with a mortgage (iii) Dallow’s level of social rented households is 11.5 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 £236,000 in Dallow, which was the cheapest ward in Luton (v) Dallow has 27.1 per cent overcrowding, ranking third highest out of the 19 wards (vi) August 2018: Health Dallow had a higher than average level of low birth weights over a five year period with 9.9 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 Dallow was 4.8 per cent (as a percentage of the total number of people who responded to this question) (viii) 26.1 per cent children in year 6 (aged 10 to11), were classed as obese compared to Luton’s average of 24.3 per cent; in contrast, adult obesity was slightly lower than the average with 24.1 per cent (ix) the average life expectancy in Luton for females is 82.4 and male 78.5; in comparison, Dallow’s average was lower for both genders with 79.6 and 77.2 respectively (x) the highest number of deaths recorded in Dallow was circulatory disease which was substantially higher than other causes in the ward (xi) April 2018: Demographics (xii) Dallow ward is located in the west of the borough. The population of Dallow (based on mid-year estimate 2016) was just over 17,300, accounting for 7.9 per cent of Luton’s population Dallow has a higher proportion of residents aged 44 and under in comparison to the rest of Luton, accounting for 77.8 per cent 3 of 26 Dallow ward profile v4.0 – April 2019 Population (xiii) the white (British, Scottish, N. Irish, Welsh) population of Dallow consists of 10.5 per cent, compared to 44.6 per cent in Luton the highest proportions of those living in Dallow are Pakistani accounting for 40.3 per cent followed by 16 per cent Bangladeshi Deprivation (xiv) 2015 indices of multiple deprivation shows that most of Dallow is in the top 20-50 per cent most deprived, with some areas in the top 10 per cent the percentage of children living in poverty after housing costs is 35-40 per cent Economic activity Dallow has a higher proportion of unemployed population than the rest of Luton with 17.8 per cent compared to 11.2 per cent in Luton of those in employment, over 55 per cent of Dallow’s residents work in sales, plants and machinery and elementary occupations (xv) there were 255 people claiming unemployment benefit at the start of 2018 - a rate of 2.3 per cent; the average rate for Luton is 1.8, which has gone down since 2016 (xvi) Crime (xvii) during 2016 and 2017, 125 incidents of burglaries were reported in Dallow it also had one of the highest levels of hate crime incidents between 2016 and 2017 in the same year, there were 572 incidents of ASB and the number of fly tipping incidents was the second highest in the town Perceptions of Luton (xviii) From wave 2 of the perceptions survey, it was identified that: 78 per cent of Dallow’s population were satisfied with Luton as a place to live only 30 per cent felt Luton had improved in the past 12 months 66 per cent of the residents in Dallow agreed that their local area was a place where different backgrounds got on well