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Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP’ Area 1 Local Insight profile for ‘Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP’ area Gloucestershire Parish Profiles Report created 8 November 2016 Finding your way around this Local Insight profile 2 Introduction Page 3 for an introduction to this report 14% of people have no qualifications in Hewelsfield and There are 480 people living in Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP Brockweir CP compared with 22% across England See pages 4-9 for more information on population by age and gender, ethnicity, country See pages 35-37 for more information on qualifications, pupil attainment and early years of birth, language, migration, household composition and religion Population Education & skills educational progress 30% people aged 16-74 are in full-time employment in 9% of children are living in poverty in Hewelsfield and Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP compared with 39% across Brockweir CP compared with 19% across England England See pages 10-21 for more information on children in poverty, people out of work, people Vulnerable groups Economy See pages 38-42 for more information on people’s jobs, job opportunities, income and local in deprived areas, disability, pensioners and other vulnerable groups businesses 1% of households lack central heating in Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP compared with 3% across England 4% of households have no car in Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP compared with 26% across England See pages 22-28 for more information on housing characteristics: dwelling types, Access & transport Housing housing tenure, affordability, overcrowding, age of dwelling and communal See pages 43-45 for more information on transport, distances services and digital services establishments The % of people 'satisfied with their neighbourhood' is higher The overall crime rate is lower than the average across than the average across England England See pages 46-48 for more information on neighbourhood satisfaction, the types of Crime & safety See pages 29-30 for more information on recorded crime and crime rates Communities & environment neighbourhoods locally, local participation and the environment, air pollution 20% of people have a limiting long-term illness in Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP compared with 18% across England Page 49 for information on the geographies used in this report and 49 for Appendix A See pages 31-34 for more information on limited long-term illness, life expectancy and acknowledgements Health & wellbeing mortality, general health and healthy lifestyles Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI), www.ocsi.co.uk / 01273 810 270. ©OCSI 2016. This report, or any part, may be reproduced in any format or medium, provided that is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The source must be identified and the title of the publication specified with the copyright status acknowledged Introduction 3 Local Insight) for Gloucestershire County Council About the indicators Local Insight gives you access to interactive maps and reports at small area level. Information published by government as open data – appropriately visualised, analysed These reports show key social and economic indicators and allow you to compare the and interpreted – is a critical tool for Local Authorities. area selected to comparator areas. OCSI collect all local data published by more than 50 government agencies, and have OCSI identified key indicators relevant to local authorities to use in this report and the interactive webtool (local.communityinsight.org). Local Insight is a tool developed by Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI) based on a project developed jointly between OCSI and HACT. How we have identified the “Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP” area OCSI develop and interpret the evidence base to help the public and community This report is based on the definition of the “Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP” area created organisations deliver better services. A 'spin-out' from the University of Oxford Social by OCSI for Gloucestershire County Council. We have aggregated data for all the Policy Institute, OCSI have worked with more than 100 public and community sector neighbourhoods in “Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP” to create the charts and tables used clients at local, national and international level. See www.ocsi.co.uk for more. in this report. Alongside data for the “Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP”, we also show data for selected comparator areas: Gloucestershire and England. Population: Age and gender 4 Working age Dependency Total Population Aged 0-15 Aged 65+ What information is shown here? population ratio The information on this page shows the number of people living in Hewelsfield and 480 60 295 130 0.64 Brockweir CP. These population figures provide detail of the structure of the 49.8% male; 12.2% (England 61.2% (England 26.6% (England England average = population by broad age bands and sex. 50.2% female average = 19.0%) average = 63.5%) average = 17.6%) 0.58 Source: Mid-Year Estimates (ONS) 2014 The first information box shows the total number of people usually resident in the Figure: Population estimates by 5 year age band area, with the male female breakdown. Also shown are numbers by sex and age, Source: Mid-Year Estimates (ONS) 2014 and the ‘dependency ratio’ (the ratio of non-working age to working age Females Males population). The final information box shows the population density, based on the 85+ 3.3 1.7 80-84 2.9 3.8 total population divided by the area in hectares for the local area 75-79 2.5 1.7 70-74 5.0 6.3 65-69 13.6 12.5 60-64 12.8 10.4 The population pyramid compares the proportion of males and females by five 55-59 13.6 13.3 50-54 6.6 7.9 year age bands. The line chart shows how the population is changing over time in 45-49 7.4 4.6 40-44 5.0 5.8 Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP and comparator areas. The stacked bar chart, 35-39 6.2 4.6 30-34 2.9 2.9 below, shows the age breakdown of the population in Hewelsfield and Brockweir 25-29 1.7 1.7 20-24 1.7 4.6 15-19 4.1 7.1 CP and comparator areas by broad age band. 10-14 2.5 2.1 5-9 2.1 4.2 0-4 6.2 5.0 15 10 5 0 5 10 15 % of total population in each age band Figure: Population by age Figure: % change in total population from 2001-2014 Source: Mid-Year Estimates (ONS) 2014 Source: Mid-Year Estimates (ONS) 100% 14% 17.6 26.6 20.3 12% 80% 10% 1 0 0 2 n 8% 60% o i m t o a 63.5 l 61.9 r 6% f u 61.2 p 40% e o 4% m p i t l a t 20% r 2% o e t v f o o 19.0 0% 17.8 12.2 e g % 0% n -2% a Hewelsfield and Gloucestershire England h C -4% Brockweir CP Aged 0-15 Working age Aged 65+ 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP Gloucestershire England Local Insight profile for Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP © OCSI 2016. Population: Ethnicity 5 White British BME White-non-British Mixed What information is shown here? 465 25 15 5 The information on the right shows the number of people in Hewelsfield and 95.7% (England average = 4.3% (England average = 2.7% (England average = 0.6% (England average = Brockweir CP by ethnicity, based on each person’s perceived ethnic group and 79.8%) 20.2%) 5.7%) 2.3%) cultural background. Households with Asian Black Other ethnic group multiple ethnicities The information boxes display the number of people who have identified themselves as White British and the number from Black or Minority Ethnic 5 0 0 10 groups (BMEs), as well as the five broad ethnic minority groups (White non- 0.6% (England average = 0.2% (England average = 0.2% (England average = 6.3% (England average = British, Mixed, Asian, Black and other ethnic group. The BME category includes 7.8%) 3.5%) 1.0%) 8.9%) Source: Census 2011 all people who do not state their ethnicity as White British including those who Figure: Population by ethnic group identify as White but of a different ethnic identity. Source: Census 2011 0 1 2 % 3 4 5 The final information box shows the proportion of households where not all household members are of the same ethnicity (households with multiple ethnic WHITE 0.4 White Irish 1.0 groups). 0.0 White Gypsy 0.1 2.3 The bar chart on the right shows a detailed breakdown of the percentage of Other White 4.6 people in BME groups by ethnic category. MIXED Mixed White and Black 0.0 Caribbean 0.8 0.4 Mixed White and Black African 0.3 0.0 Mixed White and Asian 0.6 0.2 Other Mixed 0.5 ASIAN 0.0 Indian 2.6 0.0 Pakistani 2.1 0.0 Bangladeshi 0.8 0.0 Chinese 0.7 0.6 Other Asian 1.5 BLACK 0.2 Black Caribbean 1.8 0.0 Black African 1.1 0.0 Other Black 0.5 OTHER 0.0 Arab 0.4 0.2 Other ethnic group 0.6 Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP England Local Insight profile for Hewelsfield and Brockweir CP © OCSI 2016. Population: Country of birth and household language 6 With a non-UK Born in England Born Outside the UK With a UK passport What information is shown here? passport The information on the right shows the number of people in Hewelsfield and 370 30 405 15 76.7% (England average 6.4% (England average 83.7% (England average 4.1% (England average = Brockweir CP by country of birth.
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