Locality Profile January 2011 Locality Name: North - North District:

The locality of North Warwickshire North comprises the wards of Newton Regis and Warton, East, Polesworth West, Dordon, and Baddesley and Grendon. It also includes the County Council Electoral Divisions of Polesworth and Baddesley. The locality covers an area of approximately 30 square miles. Aside from the town of Polesworth and the M42 and A5 which run through the heart of the locality, the area is primarily rural and sparsely populated with a scattering of small villages and hamlets.

Population Households2 Locality Warwickshire Locality Warwickshire No. % No. % No. % No. % Total Population (Mid-2009)¹ 17,296 - 535,100 - Total Resident Households 6,987 - 210,898 - Male/Female Split¹ 49/51 - 49/51 - Average Household Size 2.53 - 2.37 - Total 0-15 year olds¹ 3,135 18.1% 97,800 18.3% Socially Rented Housing 1,001 14.3% 30,196 14.3% Total Working Age* 10,458 60.5% 323,900 60.5% Terraced Housing 1,581 22.6% 51,458 23.6% Population¹ Total 65+ Males, 60+ 3,703 21.4% 113,400 21.2% Households with no car/van 1,204 17.2% 40,130 19.0% Females*¹ Non-White British Population² 398 2.2% 36,553 7.2% Urban/Rural Population Split³ 0/100 - 68/32 - * 16-64 Males, 16-59 Females

Economy & Employment Low Income Households6 Locality Warwickshire Locality Warwickshire No. % No. % No. % No. % Job Seekers Allowance Total families claiming child 248 2.4% 8,822 2.6% 2,205 - 64,715 - claimants (Oct 2010)4 benefit (Aug 2008) All working age benefit Total families claiming child 1,310 12.5% 38,610 11.3% 1,770 80.3% 48,005 74.2% claimants (May 2010)4 tax credit (Aug 2008) Lone Parent families claiming - ESA & Incapacity Benefit4 525 5.0% 16,360 4.8% 495 - 15,150 - CTC (Aug 2008) Out of work families claiming - Lone Parent Benefit4 100 1.0% 4,170 1.2% 260 - 8,075 - CTC (Aug 2008) Pension Credit claimants4 810 21.9% 21,130 18.6% - Number of children affected 475 - 15,135 - Total children in 'poverty' Fuel Poverty (2003)5 378 5.4% 10,429 4.9% 470 11.6% 14,760 11.9% (2008)

Occupation2 Education & Skills Locality Warwickshire Locality Warwickshire No. % No. % No. % No. % Pupils achieving 5+ GCSE A*- Managers & Senior Officials 1,229 13.8% 41,567 16.7% 128 61.5% 3,228 56.9% C inc E&M (2010)7 Pupils with Special Professional Occupations 828 9.3% 29,669 11.9% 509 20.7% 14,269 20.8% Educational Need (2010)7 Associate Professional & Unauthorised Absence 955 10.7% 31,451 12.6% 4,253 0.2% 146,580 0.2% Technical Sessions (2010)7 Pupils receiving Free School Administrative & Secretarial 1,033 11.6% 31,672 12.7% 243 9.9% 7,508 10.9% Meals (2010)7 16-18 year olds NEET (Nov Skilled Trades Occupations 1,259 14.1% 29,962 12.0% 36 5.0% 921 3.9% 2010)8 Personal Services 16-74 year olds with no 647 7.2% 15,809 6.3% 4,563 34.8% 102,529 27.8% Occupations qualifications2 Level 2 or higher Sales & Customer Service 584 6.5% 16,409 6.6% 5,076 38.7% 176,502 47.8% qualifications2 Process, Plant & Machine Level 4 or higher 1,037 11.6% 22,056 8.8% 1,819 13.9% 76,412 20.7% Operatives qualifications2 Youth Service Membership Elementary Occupations 1,362 15.2% 31,035 12.4% 238 11.9% 0 0.0% (Nov 2010)9 Community Safety10 Residents' Perceptions11 Locality Warwickshire Locality Warwickshire No. Rate* No. Rate* % % Total Recorded Crime % of residents satisfied with 701 40.5 33,847 63.3 (2009/10) their neighbourhood as a 87.3% 82.9% Domestic Burglary (2009/10) 52 7.2 1,908 8.0 place to live (2008) Vehicle Crime (2009/10) 90 5.2 3,916 7.3 % of people who volunteer at 20.7% 26.0% Violent Crime (2009/10) 114 6.6 5,241 9.8 least once a month (2008) Criminal Damage (2009/10) 121 7.0 5,977 11.2 Anti-Social Behaviour Top three issues that Activities for Teenagers 567 32.8 25,640 47.9 Incidents (2009/10) residents feel need improving Road and Pavement Repairs in their local area (2008) Level of Crime * All crime rates are calculated on a per 1,000 population basis except domestic burglary which is caluclated on a per 1,000 household basis.

Road Safety12 Health Locality Warwickshire Locality Warwickshire No. % No. % No. % No. % Total Road Injuries (2009) 61 - 1,566 - Limiting Long Term Illness2 3,230 18.2% 84,795 16.8% 2 Road Injury Rate (per 1,000 - 3.5 - 2.9 Not in Good Health 1,611 9.1% 41,117 8.1% population) Disability Living Allowance4 985 5.7% 23,120 4.3%

Socio-demographic classification*13 Socio-demographic classification* Households % Index Households % Index I Lower income workers in A Residents of isolated rural 371 5.1% 108 urban terraces in often 78 1.1% 24 communities diverse areas B Residents of small and mid- J Owner occupiers in older- sized towns with strong local 1,591 21.9% 193 style housing in ex-industrial 1,202 16.6% 210 roots areas K Residents with sufficient C Wealthy people in the most 4 0.1% 1 incomes in right-to-buy social 710 9.8% 149 sought after neighbourhoods houses D Successful professionals L Active elderly people living living in suburban or semi- 876 12.1% 79 in pleasant retirement 108 1.5% 30 rural homes locations E Middle income families M Elderly people reliant on living in moderate suburban 1,124 15.5% 134 543 7.5% 146 state support semis F Couples with young N Young people renting flats children in comfortable 227 3.1% 35 25 0.3% 22 in high density social housing modern housing O Families in low-rise social G Young, well-educated city 0 0.0% 0 housing with high levels of 92 1.3% 50 dwellers benefit need H Couples and young singles in small modern starter 308 4.2% 71 homes * Mosaic Group representation in this locality compared to Warwickshire as a whole. An index of 100 would equate to equal proportions in-line with the County.

Mosaic is a classification that groups citizens in terms of their socio-demographics, lifestyles, culture and behaviour to provide a comprehensive view of citizens and their needs. Mosaic can also provide an indication of the degree of diversity across the locality. Deprivation14 Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007 Super-Output Area* Ranks Employment Environment Housing and Barriers toBarriers Education Disability Services Disorder Health & Training Crime & Skills & Income Index of Living Super Output Area (SOA)* Multiple Deprivation

Dordon Village 12,948 11,055 13,133 16,515 3,242 29,322 21,302 17,642

Baddesley Ensor West 13,321 12,389 14,226 15,250 6,771 7,167 25,714 20,059

Polesworth East - St Helena 13,827 15,447 10,847 14,090 10,149 7,245 21,985 22,311

Dordon Rural 15,266 15,030 15,762 13,458 8,348 28,801 11,465 15,790

Grendon, Bradley Green and 18,215 23,536 24,143 16,756 17,467 2,277 19,332 15,912 Whittington Baddesley Common, 18,218 22,551 19,698 14,507 16,644 4,712 21,095 18,180 Baxterley and Merevale

Warton and 18,670 18,941 21,247 16,644 13,912 7,032 25,819 17,346

Polesworth East - Station 20,293 15,569 16,052 19,034 13,075 25,893 25,343 28,414

Polesworth West - Birchmoor 20,969 20,799 21,105 16,731 17,296 10,345 25,300 19,848 & Pooley Fields

Polesworth West - School 23,033 24,071 20,390 20,493 12,085 17,427 25,717 25,588

Newton Regis, Austrey and 23,092 25,058 21,591 19,628 27,214 5,051 24,566 23,753 Seckington

*Super Output Areas (SOAs) are a geographic hierarchy designed by the Office for National Statistics to improve the reporting of small area statistics in and Wales. SOAs have a minimum population of 1,000 and a mean population of 1,500.

Key: Ranked within top 10% most deprived areas nationally Ranked within top 10-20% most deprived areas nationally Ranked within top 20-30% most deprived areas nationally

The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007 (IMD 2007) is a Lower layer Super Output Area (LSOA) measure of multiple deprivation. The IMD is made up of seven LSOA level domain indices, each of which measures a different aspect of deprivation (income, employment, health, education & skills, barriers to housing & services, crime and living environment.) There are also two supplementary indices (Income Deprivation Affecting Children and Income Deprivation Affecting Older People).

There are 32,482 SOAs in England and 333 SOAs in Warwickshire. Each SOA is ranked according to its relative level of deprivation based upon a score generated from a number of different indicators. Low ranks denote greater levels of relative deprivation. A ranking of 1 represents the most deprived SOA nationally and a ranking of 32,482 represents the least deprived SOA nationally. The areas are ranked either within the top 10,20 or 30% most deprived nationally.

More information can be found on the Department for Communities & Local Government website: http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/indicesdeprivation07

Summary & Key Issues:

The North Locality in North Warwickshire Borough is predominantly rural except for the centrally located town of Polesworth and the major A5 and M42 routes which run through the area. Local landmarks within the locality include Alvecote Priory, Pooley Hall and Polesworth Abbey.

The locality provides a variety of public services, including three library and information centres, a children’s centre and a recycling centre. Transport services and links in the area include a limited local bus service, Polesworth train station and the M42 which provides good access to South and East Birmingham as well as Derby and Nottingham in the East Midlands.

Community, leisure and recreational facilities and activities are primarily based in and around Baddesley, Newton Regis and Polesworth, and include a leisure centre, youth centres, village halls, a social club, an array of sports clubs, in addition to the Tithe Barn Resource Centre that is used for variety of business and community activities. The community group Polesworth Society, aims to improve the local environment through education, fund raising and direct action by renovating buildings. Popular events in this locality area include Polesworth Carnival and Polesworth Abbey Arts Festival.

Local initiatives in the area include the Better Welcome Programme, which aims to provide a better quality of life for vulnerable people, and involvement in the North Arden Heritage trail project, a 25 mile circular trail focusing on the distinctive landscape and heritage of North Warwickshire. There is also the LEADER programme which, together with the other three localities in North Warwickshire, aims to promote and deliver rural development, particularly concentrating on improving access to services and communication within rural communities throughout North Warwickshire.

The population of this locality was estimated at nearly 17,300 in 2009, making it the most populous of the four localities in North Warwickshire. Although the locality is fairly representative of the County in terms of its population age profile, a notable difference exists in the low proportion of the population recorded as non-white British at the time of the 2001 Census, 2.2% compared with 7.2% of the population for Warwickshire, and the lowest proportion among the 30 localities in the County. North Warwickshire North also has the second highest household size of all the localities in Warwickshire according to the 2001 Census, each household has an average of 2.53 people per household, compared to the equivalent County figure of 2.37.

Whilst the level of unemployment in the locality, as indicated by those claiming job seekers allowance, was lower than that at a County level at the end of October 2010, 2.4% compared with 2.6%, the proportion of the working age population claiming all out of work benefits at the end of May of the same year was slightly higher than that for Warwickshire, 12.5% compared with 11.3%. This was due to slightly higher claimant rates for incapacity benefit and disability living allowance. Other indicators of hardship include a higher proportion of families in the locality claiming Child Tax Credits and a higher proportion of pensioners claiming pension credits, compared with the County.

In terms of educational attainment, the proportion of pupils achieving 5 or more GCSE grades A*-C (including English & Maths) in the locality in 2010 was by far the highest in North Warwickshire Borough. At the time of the 2001 Census, just over a third of the population aged 16-74 were recorded as having no qualifications, and just 14% possessed a qualification equivalent to NVQ level 4 or above, compared to 21% in Warwickshire. Interestingly North Warwickshire North has the third highest rate of youth service membership out of the 30 localities in Warwickshire, the highest of the North Warwickshire localities.

Although North Warwickshire North is not particularly deprived overall, according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007, the locality has small pockets experiencing deprivation linked to education, skills and training and access to housing and services. Three Super-Output Areas (SOAs) feature within the top 30% most deprived SOAs nationally in terms of ‘Education, Skills and Training’ deprivation, one of which, Dordon village is ranked within the top 10%. In addition, six of the eleven SOAs in this locality also feature within the top 30% most deprived SOAs in England on the ‘Barriers to Housing and Services’ domain. This is likely to be a reflection of the rurality of the locality and the difficulty in accessing services associated with this.

Consultation findings estimate 87.3% of residents are satisfied with their local neighbourhood as a place to live, and interestingly whilst the locality has low recorded crime rates, the level of crime remains an important issue residents feel needs improving in their local area. Notes: Lower-layer Super-Output Areas (LSOAs) have been used as the primary geographical building block to aggregate data to locality level. LSOAs are the smallest geography for which we have reliable data but in a small number of cases, the boundaries of the localities split an individual LSOA. Where this occurred, data has been apportioned based upon the location of residential households using a combination of Mosaic, 2001 Census and mid-year population estimate data.

The education data used here only takes account of those children that live in Warwickshire and attend Warwickshire County Council maintained schools. It does not include those living outside the County who travel in to attend our schools. Furthermore, the full dataset only represents those children attending Local Authority maintained schools and not the full child population in Warwickshire as we do not collect data from Independent (private) schools or individual pupil data from private residential special/hospital schools or of children that are home educated.

The Blueprint project considers the impacts of social, economic, and demographic changes taking place in the County over the long term. It takes the form of a series of visual map-based presentations to show analysis for a range of existing datasets. A further set of slides then detail some of the key future issues and challenges based on projected and forecasted data analysis. These help to highlight possible future implications for the County’s infrastructure and also how collectively our services are delivered across the public sector.

Analysis has been carried out at both District/Borough and Locality level. A composite Countywide picture has also been developed to show inter-relationships between the variables and the geographic spread of potential future issues. The link to the Blueprint is below: http://www.warwickshireobservatory.org/observatory/observatorywcc.nsf/RefDocs/KMGY-825JMS?OpenDocument

The locality profiles refer to the 2008 Place Survey, however in 2009/10, a Partnership Place Survey was carried out although data is not broken down to locality level. The report for the 2009/10 Partnership Place survey is available from: http://www.warwickshireobservatory.org/observatory/observatorywcc.nsf/RefDocs/KMGY-89SL46?OpenDocument

Super Output Area (SOA) data is available for the majority of the datsets and can be made available on request from the Observatory.

List of data sources:

1 Mid-2009 Super Output Area Population Estimates, Office for National Statistics 2 2001 Census 3 2004 Rural Urban Classification, Office for National Statistics 4 Department for Work and Pensions 5 Centre for Sustainable Energy 6 Small area data, HMRC 7 Commissoning Support Service (CSS), Children, Young People and Families Directorate 8 Connexions 9 Youth Service, Warwickshire County Council 10 Warwickshire Police 11 Place Survey 2008 12 Road Safety Intelligence Team, Warwickshire County Council 13 Mosaic Public Sector Classification, Experian 14 English Indices of Deprivation 2007, Department for Communities and Local Government

Publication date: January 2011 Contact: Warwickshire Observatory Telephone: 01926 418066 Email: [email protected]

Disclaimer This profile has been prepared by the Warwickshire Observatory, Warwickshire County Council, with all reasonable skill, care, and diligence. We accept no responsibility of any nature to any third parties to whom this profile, or any part thereof, is made known. Any such party relies on the report at their own risk.