Lowestoft Community Partnership profile Population Key facts

Largest age group Smallest age group Total population 50-54 80-84 66,000

Under

1 in 5 Just over people are aged 2,380 under 16 1 in 4 people aged 85 or people are aged 65+ over 17.7%; national average 20% 25.3%; national average 18% 3.6% of total population; national average 2.4%

Source: ONS 2017 mid-year population estimates Population 85+ 80-84

Age breakdown 75-79

70-74

65-69 The age pyramid shows the age 60-64 breakdown of the population of 55-59 against the national average 50-54

45-49 Most over-represented age group: 85+ 40-44 Most under-represented age group: 30-34 35-39 30-34 All groups below the age of 50 account 25-29 for a smaller proportion of the Lowestoft 20-24 population than they do across Great 15-19 Britain as a whole 10-14 5-9

0-4

-8% -6% -4% -2% 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% Great Britain - females Great Britain - males

Source: ONS 2017 mid-year population estimates Lowestoft - females Lowestoft - males Deprivation Key facts

12,310 16.4% 2,980 3,220 people affected by of working age children affected by older people affected income deprivation people affected by income deprivation by income deprivation employment 18.7% deprivation 25.5% 15.6% average 10.1% Suffolk average 13.6% Suffolk average 10.4% Suffolk average 8.3% 5,600 people

Source: DCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 and ONS 2017 mid-year population estimates Deprivation Overall

IMD % of Population quintile population 1 26,060 39% 2 14,880 23% 3 16,380 25% 4 5,890 9% 5 2,810 4% 1 = most deprived 20% of areas in 5 = least deprived 20% of areas in England

Source: DCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019. Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395 Deprivation Children

Source: DCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019. Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395 Deprivation Older people

Source: DCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019. Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395 Health and social care Life expectancy Life Life expectancy at Wards (2018) expectancy at birth for females birth for males

Carlton 81.4 82.1 Gunton and Corton 82.7 83.1 Harbour 73.9 80.2 Kirkley 73.5 78.3 Lothingland 79.8 82.9 Normanston 76.8 82.5 Oulton 78.3 81 81.4 82.6 9.2 years 6.7 years 80.5 85 St Margaret's 78.1 84.2 the gap in life the gap in life Whitton 77.8 83.7 expectancy for males expectancy for Suffolk Coastal 81.7 84.8 between Gunton & females between Waveney 79.4 82.9 Corton and Kirkley Pakefield and Kirkley Suffolk 80.8 84.1 Wards Wards Highest and lowest life expectancy in East Suffolk

Deben Ward (Woodbridge CP) 84.4 Kirton Ward ( CP) 93.1 Kirkley Ward (Lowestoft) 73.5 78.3 Source: ONS, 2013-2017 data. Accessed via localhealth.org.uk. Data not yet available for the new 2019 East Suffolk wards Health and social care Mental health

Dementia: QOF prevalence (all ages Depression: Recorded prevalence (aged 18+) 1.6 25

1.4 20 1.2

1 15 0.8

0.6 10

0.4 5 0.2

0 0 Alexandra Andaman Bridge Kirkley Mill Victoria NHS Great NHS Ipswich England Alexandra Andaman Bridge Kirkley Mill Victoria NHS Great NHS Ipswich England & Crestview Surgery Road Health Road Yarmouth And East & Crestview Surgery Road Health Road Yarmouth And East Surgeries Surgery Centre Surgery And Suffolk CCG Surgeries Surgery Centre Surgery And Suffolk CCG Waveney Waveney CCG CCG

Prevalence of dementia is higher than the Prevalence of depression is higher than the national average among patients at national average among patients at all GPs in Andaman Surgery, Bridge Road Surgery and Lowestoft CP Victoria Road Surgery

Error bars show Upper and Lower confidence limits. These are 95% confidence limits, meaning Source: Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). Accessed via fingertips.phe.org.uk that there is a 95% probability that the true value lies within the two confidence limits. Health and social care Childhood weight

The map shows the percentage of children 30.3% measured as overweight or very overweight Primary school children according to the National Child overweight or obese Measurement Programme Lowest CP: & (NCMP) 20.8%

Highest CP: , & 32.5%

Source: National Child Measurement Programme 2015-16 to 2017-18. Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395 Health and social care Physical activity

29.3% 49.7% of adults complete 2+ hours of of adults do not exercise exercise per week Lowest CP: Kesgrave & Martlesham 42.1% Highest CP: Lowestoft 49.7% Lowest CP: Lowestoft 29.3% UK average: 46.2% Highest CP: & 34.4% UK average: 31.0%

Source: Experian Mosaic 2018 Health and social care Adult care

2,370 Adults received a social care service in the last two years

1,119 Breakdown by type of service

578 528

295 247 135

Domiciliary Care Residential Home Direct Payment Other Day Services Nursing Home Care Care

Source: Suffolk County Council ACS. Two years data to July 2019 Health and social care 171 Children’s care

75

41 32 28 24 26 24 22 20 19 15 1213 12 8 171 75 Children in Care Children in Care placements whose home is in in the CP the CP

CiC home location CiC placement location Source: Suffolk County Council CYP iHub. July 2019 data Health and social care Disability and social isolation

IMD health deprivation Social isolation and disability domain

IMD % of Population quintile population 1 18,840 28% 2 31,010 47% 3 13,270 21% 4 2,810 4% 50 0%

Source: DCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019. Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395 Employment and education Employment

Lowestoft

East Suffolk

Suffolk Lowestoft CP has a diverse employment base, but England with greater proportions of people working in retail, 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% hospitality, Mining & utilities Manufacturing education and Construction Motor trades Wholesale Retail health compared to the Transport & storage Hospitality Suffolk average Information & communication Finance, property & business services Public admin & defence Education Health Other services Source: ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2017 Employment and education Benefit claimants

15.7% of adults in receipt of Universal Credit

Highest CP: Lowestoft 15.7%

Lowest CP: Kesgrave & Martlesham 1.7%

Source: DWP, June 2019 data applied to ONS 2017 mid-year estimates of working age adults. Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395 Employment and education Education – Key Stage 2

Number of Lowestoft schools where the % of KS2 pupils... Ofsted breakdown Worse than England average Better than England average

11 11 Exceeded expected standard at KS2 8 Outstanding or Good

12 Met expected standard at KS2 7 6

Require improvement 15 or Inadequate Absence 4

2 Primary schools have not yet been inspected

Source: DfE Performance Tables, 2018 data Employment and education Education – Key Stage 4

Number of Lowestoft schools where the % of KS4 pupils... Ofsted breakdown Worse than England average Better than England average

Pupils achieving Level 2 threshold including 5 3 standard passes 9-4 in both English and Outstanding or Good Maths GCSEs 0

5 Attainment 8 2 0 Require improvement or Inadequate 6 Absence 0 1 Secondary school has not yet been inspected

Source: DfE Performance Tables, 2018 data Median house price Housing to income ratio Prices and affordability

Average house price for the year to December 2018

Source: ONS & Experian. Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395 Housing Gateway to Homechoice and Homelessness

Applications There are currently 3,991 applications on the Housing Register broken down below by banding The figures for the Lowestoft Town area show the applicants who claim a local connection to the Lowestoft Town area, which represents 20% of the total register ABCDEF total 30 93 162 70 422 1 778 Lowestoft area 167 376 801 292 2345 10 3991 total register

Lets There were 981 properties let through the register 1st April 18 – 31st March 2019 319 of these properties were in the Lowestoft Town area, which represents 32.5% of the total lets Homelessness 1,852 people presented to the council for initial advice between 1st April 2018 – 31st March 2019 (72 people have presented from neighbouring Authorities)

551 of these people were from the Lowestoft Town area which represents 30% of presentations Housing in poor condition Housing (IMD indicator) Living environment 5,770 houses in poor condition; 19.5% of all houses

Lowest CP: Felixstowe 18.3% Highest CP: Framlingham & Wickham Market 44.0% Hard to heat homes (IMD indicator) 1,080 hard to heat homes; 3.7% of all houses

Lowest CP: Kesgrave & Martlesham 1.4% Highest CP: Lowestoft 3.7%

Source: DCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019. Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395 Environment Air quality and attitudes towards climate change Air quality (IMD indicator)

32.1% would make compromises to help the environment (UK 34.8%)

9.9% do not buy something if it has too much packaging (UK 10.6%)

72.9% recycle items rather than throwing away (UK 73.8%)

61.4% make effort to cut down on water usage (UK 60.7%)

41.2% have a reasonable knowledge of climate change (UK 45.6%)

Source: DCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation 2015. Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395. Estimated attitudes to the environment derived from Experian Mosaic data 2018 Number of times a bus passed a stop over Community/services a 3 day period in September 2017 Transport

0.1% 79.6% of homes are more of homes are within than 2 miles from a ¼ of a mile of a frequent* bus frequent* bus service, the second service lowest of any CP

Lowest CP: Framlingham & Lowest CP: Kesgrave & Wickham Market 38.3% Martlesham 0.0% Highest CP: Kesgrave & Highest CP: , Martlesham 84.9% ,

Source: Bus stop data: Suffolk County Council. Data refers to the number of stops a bus made during a three day period in September 2017. *In this case “frequent” means an average of 5 times per day or more Map © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100023395.