Musselburgh Ward Profile
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MUSSELBURGH WARD PROFILE November 2017 Contents Introduction and Sources .......................................................................................................................... 3 The Musselburgh Area .............................................................................................................................. 4 Population ................................................................................................................................................ 5 Ethnicity and Diversity .................................................................................................................................. 5 Household Composition ................................................................................................................................ 7 Deprivation in the Area ............................................................................................................................. 8 Income and Employment ........................................................................................................................ 11 Employment Patterns in the Musselburgh Area ......................................................................................... 11 Economic Activity in the Musselburgh area ................................................................................................ 14 How is the ward coping financially? ............................................................................................................ 17 Education and Training ............................................................................................................................ 21 Education and Training among adults ......................................................................................................... 21 Education and Training for children and young people .............................................................................. 23 School Leavers ............................................................................................................................................. 28 Health and Social Care ............................................................................................................................ 29 Illness, Mortality and Hospital Admissions ................................................................................................. 30 Maternity and Child Health ......................................................................................................................... 32 Young People’s Attitudes to Health ............................................................................................................ 33 Care and Social Care .................................................................................................................................... 34 Older people ................................................................................................................................................ 35 Neighbourhood and Place ....................................................................................................................... 37 Improving the Area ..................................................................................................................................... 39 Local High Streets ........................................................................................................................................ 40 Leisure, Learning and Sport ......................................................................................................................... 41 Participating in Decisions ............................................................................................................................ 42 Housing ................................................................................................................................................... 43 Housing type and size.................................................................................................................................. 44 Housing Tenure ........................................................................................................................................... 45 Housing Supply ............................................................................................................................................ 46 Housing Quality ........................................................................................................................................... 48 Homelessness .............................................................................................................................................. 49 Crime and Safety ..................................................................................................................................... 50 Reported Crimes in the ward ...................................................................................................................... 51 Fear of Crime ............................................................................................................................................... 53 Anti‐Social Behaviour .................................................................................................................................. 54 Fire incidences across the ward .................................................................................................................. 55 Transport and Travel ............................................................................................................................... 56 Access Deprivation ...................................................................................................................................... 58 Environment ........................................................................................................................................... 60 Air Quality and pollution ............................................................................................................................. 62 Local Environmental Concerns .................................................................................................................... 62 Young People and the Environment ........................................................................................................... 63 Perceptions of East Lothian Council & Satisfaction with Services ............................................................. 64 Table of Figures ....................................................................................................................................... 66 2 MUSSELBURGH AREA PROFILE – November 2017 Introduction and Sources This profile is one of six ward area profiles prepared to support the work of the East Lothian Partnership and compliment the East Lothian Profile. It has been compiled in consideration of the priorities identified in the East Lothian Single Outcome Agreement to assist local partnerships and service providers to better understand the needs of their local areas. In preparing this profile every attempt has been made to use the most recent information publically available for each theme and therefore the information here has come from a variety of sources including :‐ - National Records of Scotland (NRS) – population estimates and projections http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk - East Lothian Residents Survey 2017 commissioned by East Lothian Council cover a range of issues including quality of life, community cohesion, social attitudes, community safety and satisfaction with services. - Scotland’s Census 2011 ‐ http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/en/ with comparison data from the 2001 census ‐ www.scrol.gov.uk - Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics – www.sns.gov.uk part of the Scottish Governments on‐going programme to improve the availability, consistency and accessibility of small area statistics in Scotland - Community Health and Well‐being Profiles – produced by the Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) and comprising 61 indicators of health and wider determinants of health www.scotpho.org.uk/profiles - Scottish Schools Online ‐ www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/ - Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) – provides an analysis of the SIMD 2016 http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/SIMD - East Lothian Council ‐ Information provided by relevant Departments - CACI Paycheck 2012 ‐ http://www.caci.co.uk/paycheck.aspx. - NOMIS ‐ a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, to give free access to the most detailed and up‐to‐date UK labour market statistics from official sources www.nomisweb.co.uk - Student Evaluation of Experience Survey – a yearly survey of all P6 and S2 pupils at Local Authority schools, East Lothian Council (combined P6 and S2 results) - Lothian and Borders Police – Measuring our Performance www.lbp.police.uk/freedom‐ of‐information/pl_performance.asp - Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service ‐ Local Fire and Rescue Plan for East Lothian 2016 www.lbfire.org.uk - Local Incomes and Poverty in Scotland – 2013 report from the Income Modeling Project carried out by Heriot Watt University http://www.improvementservice.org.uk/ - Hands‐Up Survey – Sustran’s annual Scotland wide survey of how pupils travel to school MUSSELBURGH AREA PROFILE – November 2017 3 The Musselburgh Area The Musselburgh Ward is situated at the western end of East Lothian. It includes the town of Musselburgh, which is the largest settlement