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Oadby and Wigston Community Profile 2005

August 2005

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CONTENTS

Page 4 Executive summary 5 Purpose of report 6 Demographic profile 11 Ethnicity / religion 16 Healthier Communities 27 Deprivation 36 Education, skills and training 42 Economy 55 Crime 61 Travel to work 63 Summary / gaps 65 Glossary

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ♦ The population of Oadby and Wigston Borough is 56,100

♦ 18.4% of the population are aged under 16 years, and 19.4% are of pension age ♦ There are 21,922 households in the Borough, with an average household size of 2.45 ♦ 18.2% of the population (10,165 persons) are of Black and Minority Ethnic origin. The largest BME groups are Indian and Other White ♦ In the Borough, 10.6% of the population have a limiting long term illness

♦ 5,829 people provide unpaid care to a relative or neighbour ♦ Overall levels of deprivation are low, but there are small areas which experience more severe levels of some aspects of deprivation ♦ There are 1,142 children (under 16 years) and 1,254 older people (over 60 years) living in income deprived households

♦ 11,932 pupils attend an LEA school in Oadby and Wigston Borough ♦ 82.2% of the working age population in the Borough are economically active ♦ In May 2005, 565 people in the Borough were claiming Job Seekers Allowance

♦ 83.8% of businesses employ less than 10 people ♦ Average household income in the Borough is £30,275

♦ Offences recorded by the police in the Borough in 2004/05 show that Vehicle crime and Burglary are falling, but that there have been large increases in Assault. Criminal damage fell slightly, but remains a high volume crime.

♦ There are 27,124 cars and vans in the Borough, and this is the most common method of travel to work (67.7%). 10.6% of the population travel to work by public transport

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PURPOSE OF REPORT Oadby and Wigston Borough Council is in the process of reviewing the Oadby and Wigston Community Plan and the Oadby and Wigston Local Plan, the latter eventually being replaced by a Local Development Framework (LDF). It is therefore important that the Borough Council and the Local Strategic Partnership review the information available about the Borough to inform this process. This profile has been prepared to ensure the preparation of, and consultation on these documents is well informed and based upon existing knowledge about the Borough. It will also support the development of an evidence base for the Local Area Agreements and future regional and sub- regional planning. Data A range of data from a variety of sources has been used in compiling this report. In all cases, the most up-to-date information has been included. Where relevant, historic data or projected information has also been included. Geography

This report will include data at different geographical levels: • Borough • Ward – There are 10 wards in the Borough. Ward boundaries were changed in the Borough in 2001. Wherever possible, the new ward boundaries have been used in this report. • Super Output Areas - lower level (SOA) – There are 36 lower level SOAs in the Borough, shown in appendix 1. This is a relatively new geography created by the Office for National Statistics. They are created by combining a number of Output Areas which were created for the 2001 Census. They are small areas of broadly consistent population size across the country, each containing approximately 1,500 people. • Output Areas – There are 175 Output Areas in the Borough. These are small areas created for the 2001 Census which each contain approximately 120 households. Where possible, the data will be compared with the borough (and the group of ‘most similar’ local authorities*), the county, the region and the country (referred to as , England and Wales and Great Britain).

* The Office for National Statistics has produced an Area Classification which groups most similar local authorities together using demographic, household composition, socio-economic, employment and industry sector indicators from the 2001 census - more information on the classification is available from www.statistics.gov.uk/about/methodology_by_theme/area_classification.

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DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF OADBY AND WIGSTON

Summary • The population of Oadby and Wigston is 56,100 (mid-2003) • 18.4% of the population are under 16 years of age • 19.4% of the population are of pension age

The Borough More detailed maps of the Borough showing the various The Borough covers an area of 2,352 hectares. It shares boundaries used in this report are located in the borders with City, Blaby and Harborough Districts. appendices to this report. In 2003, the population of the Borough was estimated to be 56,100 (Source: ONS mid year estimate). Map 1: Oadby and The population in the Borough live in the two settlements of Wigston Wigston (32,464 people) and Oadby (23,336 people). (Source: 2001 Mid Year Population Estimates, Leicestershire County Council). The population is predicted to contract to 54,600 in 2011.

Table 1: Population projection

2001 2006 2011 Oadby and Wigston 55,800 55,300 54,600 Source: Leicestershire County Council 2002-based projections

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Ward level change 1991-2001 To enable a comparison of the location of population change, old wards have been used. Graph 1 shows absolute change in numbers, Graph 2 shows the percentage change within each ward (old wards have been used). The wards of Brookside and Grange have seen the largest rise in their populations (22% and 19.7% respectively). A number of wards saw their population fall between 1991 and 2001.

Graph 1: Population change 1991 - 2001 Graph 2: Percentage change 1991 - 2001

All Saints All Saints

Bassett Bassett

Brocks Hill Brocks Hill

Brookside Brookside

Central Central

Fairf ield Fairf ield

1991 Grange Grange 2001 St. Peter's St. Peter's

St. Wolstan's St. Wolstan's

Westf ield Westf ield

0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 -10% -5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% population

Source: Mid year population estimates, ONS

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Graph 3: Age Structure, 2003 90+

85 to 89 Male Female 80 to 84 75 to 79

70 to 74 65 to 69

60 to 64 55 to 59

50 to 54 45 to 49

40 to 44

35 to 39

30 to 34

25 to 29

20 to 24

15 t o 19

10 t o 14

5 to 9

0 to 4

-10 -5 0 5 10 Source: ONS percentage

The population pyramid above shows the age profile of the Borough’s population. It clearly shows that the Borough contains a low proportion of 20 to 34 year olds, with the 15 to 19 years age group containing the largest proportions - possibly due to the large numbers of students living in the Borough.

18.4% of the population are aged under 16 years, and 19.4% are of pension age (male over 65 or female over 60).

The decreasing number of children in lower age groups will be compounded by lower numbers in the main child-bearing age groups (20 to 34 years).

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Births by ward Birth rate Table 2 shows the number of births in each ward between Graph 4 shows the birth rate measured as a proportion of 1997 and 2002 - data is available for ‘old wards’ only. It women of reproductive age in each ward in the Borough. shows that most wards saw a decline in the number of births. Wigston Meadowcourt ward has the highest birth rate: 52.7 The only exception is Grange ward where the numbers of births per 1,000 women of reproductive age, against a low of births rose from 32 to 43. 27.0 births per 1,000 women of reproductive age in Oadby The Borough as a whole saw a decline in number of births Grange ward. from 598 to 516, a decline of 14%. Graph 4: Births per 1,000 women of reproductive age Table 2: Number of births per year (2001/ 2004 average)

Wigston Meadow court

% change 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 97/02 Wigston Fields Grange 32 46 32 40 38 43 34% Fairfield 25 23 35 23 26 25 0% Oadby Woodlands Westfield 36 29 34 23 41 35 -3% Wigston All Saints All Saints 94 75 60 77 68 86 -9% St. Wolstan's 84 91 93 74 83 76 -10% Oadby St. Peter's Central 47 49 47 55 37 42 -11% Oadby Uplands Brookside 125 118 111 109 83 101 -19% ` Bassett 82 75 65 73 77 61 -26% Wigston St. Wolstan's Brocks Hill 45 40 33 47 29 29 -36% Oadby Brocks Hill St. Peter's 28 28 24 24 25 18 -36% Oadby and Wigston 598 574 534 545 507 516 -14% Oadby Grange

0 102030405060 Source: ONS Births per 1,000 women of reproductive age

Source: Health Informatics data supplied to Leicester Shire Online Research Atlas

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Housing New dwellings The 2001 census counted 21,992 households in Oadby and Graph 5 shows the number of new dwellings built each Wigston. The average household size in the Borough was 2.45 year between 1996 and 2004 in the Borough. 712 new persons per household, slightly above the county average of 2.43. dwellings have been built in the Borough since 1996, built Oadby and Wigston has a higher proportion of owner occupied at an average rate of 89 dwellings per year. During this dwellings (85.4%) than the county average (81.2%), and a lower period, 26.8% of dwellings completed were built on land proportion of dwellings rented from the council or a housing which had previously been developed. association (O&W = 8.0%, Leicestershire = 11.0%). At 31 March 2004, there were a further 323 dwellings Table 3: Household type, tenure and composition with planning permission, but yet to be built. Oadby & Wigston Leicestershire Graph 5: New dwellings built 1996 - 2004 Accommodation type Number Percentage Number Percentage Total household spaces 21,922 -- 252,661 -- Detached 6,515 29.09% 94,129 37.26% 160 Semi-detached 10,868 48.53% 100,478 39.77% 140 Terraced 3,413 15.24% 39,586 15.67% Flat or apartment 1,590 7.10% 17,462 6.91% 120 Other 9 0.04% 1,006 0.40% 100 Tenure Number Percentage Number Percentage Owner occupied 18,731 85.44% 199,020 81.15% 80 Rented from council / 1,743 7.95% 26,982 11.00% 60

housing association completions 40 Private landlord / letting 1,025 4.68% 13,463 5.49% agency 20 Other 423 1.93% 5,780 2.36% Household composition Number Percentage Number Percentage 0 96/97 97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 Households with 6,905 31.50% 74,236 30.27% dependent children Lone parent households 862 5.53% 11,375 4.64% Source: Leicestershire County Council Land Monitoring Report, 2004 with dependent children All pensioner households 5,742 26.19% 56,978 23.23%

Source: 2001 Census Key Statistics

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ETHNICITY AND RELIGION

Summary • The BME population of Oadby and Wigston is 10,165 people or 18.2% of the population • The largest ethnic groups are Indian (6,362 people), Other White (765 people) and Other Asian (566 people) • 64.8% of the population are Christian. The largest non-Christian religious group is Hindu (6.0% of the population)

The 2001 Census provides the most comprehensive information on ethnic groups in Leicestershire. The table below outlines the results using the full 16-group classification. It shows that Indian and Other White are the largest Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) populations in Oadby and Wigston. The overall BME population (all people other than White British) is 10,165 or 18.2%. This is well above the Leicestershire County proportion of 7.3% and the East of 8.7%. Table 4: Ethnic groups in Oadby and Wigston

White Mixed Asian or Asian British Black or Black British Chinese or other ethnic group White and White and Black Black White and Black Black Other Ethnic All people British Irish Other White Caribbean African Asian Other Mixed Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Other Asian Caribbean African Other Black Chinese Group 55,795 45,630 462 765 197 51 259 99 6362 445 58 566 310 153 39 292 107

81.78% 0.83% 1.37% 0.35% 0.09% 0.46% 0.18% 11.40% 0.80% 0.10% 1.01% 0.56% 0.27% 0.07% 0.52% 0.19%

Religion Table 5: Religion in Oadby and Wigston For the first time in 150 years, a (voluntary) question was No religion or asked in the 2001 census about religion. In Oadby and All people Christian Buddhist Hindu Jewish Muslim Sikh Other religion not stated 55,795 36,131 90 3339 166 1552 2323 135 12,059 Wigston, 36,131 people identified themselves as Christian. 64.76% 0.16% 5.98% 0.30% 2.78% 4.16% 0.24% 21.61% The largest non-Christian group is Hindu (6.0%), with a Source: 2001 Census Key Statistics large proportion of Sikhs (4.2%) and Muslims (2.8%). A large minority (over 21%) stated that they had no religion, or did not state their religion.

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Ethnicity by ward By presenting the ethnicity data by ward, it is possible to identify groups of BME populations. Oadby Uplands and Oadby Grange wards have the highest proportions of BME population (41.4% and 36.1% respectively). The largest ethnic communities are the Indian community in Oadby Grange (1,516 people), Oadby Uplands (1,372 people) and Oadby Woodlands (1,091 people). Table 6: Ethnicity by ward

White Mixed Asian or Asian British Black or Black British Chinese or other ethnic group White and All Black White and White and Black Other Ethnic people British Irish Other White Caribbean Black African Asian Other Mixed Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Other Asian Caribbean Black African Other Black Chinese Group Oadby Brocks Hill 3,971 2,905 73.2 35 0.9 50 1.3 9 0.2 3 0.1 30 0.8 19 0.5 699 17.6 62 1.6 10 0.3 57 1.4 25 0.6 7 0.2 -- 0.0 51 1.3 9 0.2 Oadby Grange 6,096 3,894 63.9 49 0.8 142 2.3 13 0.2 -- 0.0 43 0.7 23 0.4 1,516 24.9 121 2.0 10 0.2 159 2.6 19 0.3 46 0.8 -- 0.0 43 0.7 18 0.3 Oadby St Peter's 3,938 3,272 83.1 31 0.8 76 1.9 11 0.3 3 0.1 32 0.8 10 0.3 349 8.9 42 1.1 -- 0.0 35 0.9 34 0.9 6 0.2 9 0.2 20 0.5 8 0.2 Oadby Uplands 4,404 2,579 58.6 43 1.0 64 1.5 17 0.4 3 0.1 15 0.3 14 0.3 1,372 31.2 69 1.6 16 0.4 124 2.8 17 0.4 28 0.6 -- 0.0 27 0.6 16 0.4 Oadby Woodlands 4,266 2,781 65.2 25 0.6 54 1.3 16 0.4 9 0.2 43 1.0 8 0.2 1,091 25.6 26 0.6 3 0.1 57 1.3 19 0.5 28 0.7 -- 0.0 83 2.0 23 0.5 South Wigston 7,471 7,095 95.0 56 0.8 60 0.8 44 0.6 5 0.1 16 0.2 7 0.1 105 1.4 10 0.1 -- 0.0 16 0.2 23 0.3 4 0.1 3 0.0 23 0.3 4 0.1 Wigston All Saints 6,271 5,811 92.7 51 0.8 73 1.2 9 0.1 4 0.1 26 0.4 6 0.1 198 3.2 10 0.2 3 0.1 13 0.2 20 0.3 14 0.2 3 0.1 20 0.3 10 0.2 Wigston Fields 6,648 5,741 86.4 60 0.9 83 1.3 47 0.7 17 0.3 21 0.3 6 0.1 444 6.7 56 0.8 12 0.2 49 0.7 86 1.3 5 0.1 9 0.1 3 0.1 9 0.1 Wigston Meadowcourt 6,417 5,988 93.3 40 0.6 68 1.1 18 0.3 5 0.1 8 0.1 4 0.1 205 3.2 15 0.2 -- 0.0 16 0.3 25 0.4 5 0.1 4 0.1 13 0.2 3 0.1 Wigston St Wolstan's 6,311 5,564 88.2 72 1.1 95 1.5 13 0.2 0 0.0 25 0.4 3 0.1 383 6.1 34 0.5 4 0.1 40 0.6 42 0.7 10 0.2 9 0.1 10 0.2 7 0.1

Source: 2001 Census Key Statistics Ethnicity by output area The maps on the next page show the BME population by Output Area - the lowest geography that data is available from the Census. Output areas consist of around 100 - 125 households, and so in urban areas, small areas can be identified.

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Table 8: Ethnicity Number of % of people Number of Percentage of Qualifications and qualifications people aged 16 aged 16 to 74 people with a people with a to 74 with no with no degree or degree or • Compared to the White British population, qualifications qualifications equivalent equivalent Irish 152 39% 82 21% BME groups generally have a lower Chinese 72 35% 62 30% percentage of people with no qualifications, Bangladeshi 11 31% 10 28% British 9,906 30% 5,036 15% and a higher percentage with a degree . Black Caribbean 67 26% 78 30% • Irish and Chinese communities have the Indian 1,080 25% 1,161 26% Pakistani 64 20% 99 31% highest proportion of people with no Other White 109 19% 213 37% qualifications. Other Ethnic group and Black White and Black Caribbean 15 19% 15 19% Other Ethnic Group 14 19% 35 47% African communities have the highest Other Asian 74 18% 124 31% Black African 18 16% 57 50% proportion of people with a degree. White and Black African 3 13% 7 30% White and Asian 10 12% 23 28% Other Mixed 3 6% 12 25% Other Black - 0% 6 40%

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Ethnicity and Health

Table 9: Ethnicity and health

People People with a Health with a Percentage ‘Not good’ Percentage with LLTI¹ with a LLTI Health not good health • There has been a general increase in the Bangladeshi 15 24.2% 6 9.7% reporting of illness since the 1991 Census. Other Black 9 19.6% 3 6.5% Irish 78 17.0% 35 7.6% Table 9 shows that the Bangladeshi British 7,618 16.7% 2,930 6.4% Black Caribbean 48 15.4% 26 8.3% community have the highest rates of LLTI and Other White 104 13.6% 46 6.0% not good health. The Irish community have a Pakistani 55 12.4% 19 4.3% Other Mixed 12 12.1% 3 3.0% large number of people with LLTI and not good Indian 718 11.3% 318 5.0% health as well as high proportions. This to Other Asian 57 10.1% 24 4.2% Black African 15 9.6% - 0.0% some extent could remain hidden as the Irish Other Ethnic Group 9 8.3% 3 2.8% community, although a sizeable BME group, Chinese 14 4.8% 8 2.7% White and Black Caribbean 9 4.7% - 0.0% are spread more evenly than other groups White and Asian 12 4.6% 3 1.1% across the Borough. White and Black African - 0.0% - 0.0%

Census 2001 ST107

Note: Limiting Long term Illness (LLTI)

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HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES

Summary • 16% of people in Oadby and Wigston have a Limiting Long Term Illness, • 7.4% consider their health to be ‘not good’ • 5,829 people provide unpaid care to a relative or neighbour

By first identifying areas of high limiting long-term illness (LLTI) and ‘not good’ health from the 2001 Census, and then providing some simple measurements of health inequality across local populations, this chapter hopefully helps prioritise local action to tackle health inequality.

Health: Limiting long-term illness and General Health Table 10: Most similar authorities Table 10 shows some small variations in the self-reported LLTI in 2001 in comparison between Oadby and Wigston, its similar district areas, % of people % of people the County area and England. The table shows that Oadby and with LLTI with 'Not Good' Wigston has generally lower levels of limiting long term Illness and ‘not Charnwood 15% 7% Oadby and Wigston 16% 7% good’ compared with its similar authorities. Bedford 16% 7% Broxtowe 18% 9% Bury 19% 10% In the wider context of districts in England, Buckinghamshire has the Leicestershire 15% 7% England 18% 9% lowest LLTI rate of 13%, and Easington in County Durham has the highest proportion of its population reporting a LLTI - 31%

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Health: General Health For 2001 a new question was asked on general health offering a different perspective on illness (respondents were asked to classify their health as either ‘good’, ‘fairly good’ or ‘not good’). Table 10 shows that people who reported ‘not good’ health in Oadby and Wigston is more than twice that of LLTI. There was a small variation between the comparison districts, and in a wider context Buckingham again had the lowest proportion of unhealthy people with 6%, and Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales the highest at 18%

Health: Limiting Long Term Illness Table 11: LLTI 1991 & 2001

A question on LLTI was asked in the 1991 Census and Table 11 shows that there was LLTI All Percentage a large increase between Censuses. However, this increase is in line with a general people increase in the reporting of illness across not only the County area but England. With 2001 8,760 16% the addition of the general health question in 2001, we now know that 17 per cent of 1991 4,851 9% people reporting a LLTI have in fact have good health. *(17% of people with a LLTI in 2001 reported having good health)

Health: Provision of Unpaid Care This new question in the 2001 Census shows for the first time how many people are caring for relatives and neighbours in Oadby and Wigston, and raises issues regarding the amount of support at home and in the workplace that is needed. Some of the key facts are:

• 5,829 people or 10% of the population are providing unpaid care. (11% in Leicestershire and 10% in England) • 74% of carers do so between 1 to 19 hours a week, 9% are providing care between 20 to 49 hours a week, 17% are providing care over 50 hours a week . • 44% of carers are working full-time.

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Health and limiting long term illness by ward and output area Over the next few pages LLTI and general health are looked at lower geographical levels. Starting with general health, the table and graph below show that Oadby St Peters ward has the highest rates of people with ‘not good’ health - 9.5%, more than double the rate of the lowest ward: Oadby Woodlands where only 4.3% of its population has ‘not good’ health. Map 4 on the next page shows the highest rates of ’not good health’, by output area, are distributed mainly in South Wigston, Wigston All Saints and Wigston Fields wards.

Table 12: Health by ward percentage Not Good Fairly Good Good All people Health Health Health 0 20406080100 Oadby St Pet er

Oadby St Peter's 3,937 9.5 26.6 63.9 s ig W 's ton Wigston Fields 6,647 9.2 25.6 65.2 Sout Fields h Wig s South Wigston 7,471 8.7 24.7 66.6 Wigs ton ton ll A Saint

Wigston All Saints 6,270 8.7 23.3 67.9 sWigs ton St ols Wo Wigston St Wolstan's 6,311 8.0 23.9 68.1 Oadby tan's Br ocks Oadby Brocks Hill 3,972 7.3 22.5 70.2 Oadby Hill pad Wigs Uplands Oadby Uplands 4,404 6.3 22.7 71.0 Meadowcour ton

Wigston Meadowcourt 6,417 5.5 19.7 74.7 t Oadby Gr neOadby ange Oadby Grange 6,100 5.5 18.8 75.7 Woodlands Oadby Woodlands 4,266 4.3 16.9 78.8

Not good Fairly good Good health health health

Source: 2001 Census Key Statistics

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0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% Ward limiting long term illness by age Graph 7: LLTI

Oadby Brocks Hill • Graph 7 shows that the main variation in the limiting long term illness by ward occurs at 45 to 64 age group. Oadby Grange

• Table 14 takes the differing age structures in each Oadby St. Peter's ward into account and shows that Wigston Fields

ward has the highest LLTI rates. Oadby Uplands

Table 14: LLTI by standardising age Oadby Woodlands

Wigston Fields 117 South Wigston South Wigston 114 Wigston All Saints 105 Oadby St. Peter's 102 Wigston All Saints Oadby Uplands 97 Wigston St. Wolstan's 94 Oadby Brocks Hill 93 Oadby Grange 89 Wigston Fields Wigston Meadowcourt 88 Oadby Woodlands 80 District average = 100 Wigston Meadowcourt

Wigston St. Wolstan's

Under 16 16 to 44 45 to 65 65 plus

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Health Inequalities Table 15: Health by tenure

The following few pages presents Census data that % of people % Not Good

with LLTI Health highlights how health can depend on where you live, what you do and who you are. These distinguishing All People 15% 7% characteristics can set areas apart and are usually Owner/occupier 15% 7% focussed on when looking at health inequalities. Rented from council 25% 14% Other social rented 24% 11% However, this approach can dismiss an important Private rented 17% 10% element about place and health: the importance of how Table 16: Health by economic activity all places are connected to each other both by geography, people and history. In fact places exist only LLTI in relation to one another, and not just as a convenient Employed 7% container for showing data in reports. How places can Unemployed 15% influence health (e.g. the lack of facilities) and how places are then in turn influenced by specific health Table 17: Health by ethnicity issues (e.g. obesity) depends on these mostly unseen % with Number % with not Number with not links. These issues are not covered in this report and LLTI with LLTI good health good health would need to be addressed by further research. White 17% 7,800 6% 3,011 Mixed 5% 33 1% 6 Asian 11% 845 5% 387 Black 14% 14% 6% 29 Chinese 6% 23 3% 11

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Limiting long term illness by gender Table 18: Standardised LLTI by gender

• Females have the highest rates of LLTI in all Difference Male Female % of in male Standardised Standardised Ward LLTI LLTI Females wards. The biggest differences between the female Male age Female age (%) (%) in ward rates sexes is in Wigston All Saints. Higher female Oadby Woodlands 9.11 10.08 -0.97 51.4% 80 81 Oadby Brocks Hill 14.65 15.94 -1.29 50.5% 92 92 life expectancy probably accounts for the Oadby Uplands 13.99 15.29 -1.3 53.4% 94 98 differences. Wigston Meadowcourt 10.29 11.61 -1.32 51.5% 85 91 Wigston St. Wolstan's 14.96 16.43 -1.47 50.9% 92 93 • The final two columns takes into account the South Wigston 15.76 17.27 -1.51 51.9% 115 114 Wigston Fields 18.36 20.15 -1.79 51.3% 118 115 differing age structures of each ward. A Oadby Grange 12.87 14.85 -1.98 51.0% 88 89 number of over 100 indicates that levels of Oadby St. Peter's 19.01 21.5 -2.49 50.2% 108 99 Wigston All Saints 15.45 18.65 -3.2 50.3% 107 106 limiting long term illness are worse than the Borough average. • It shows that Wigston All Saints, South Wigston and Wigston Fields wards have higher than expected rates of LLTI. • There are low rates in Oadby Woodlands and Oadby Grange ward. • The largest difference between the standardized male and female columns is found in Oadby St Peter’s ward (male=108, female=99).

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Life Expectancy

Life expectancy is one of the key measures of the health status of a population and can be defined as: ‘The average number of years a baby born in a particular area or population can be expected to live if it experiences the current age-specific mortality rates of that particular area or population throughout its life’.

Within Oadby and Wigston, there are notable differences between life expectancy, not only between males and females in wards, but also for individual genders across the Borough.

Table 19: Life Expectancy by gender Table 19 shows that female life expectancy is highest in Female Male Difference Oadby Woodland ward (85.3 years) and lowest in Wigston All Oadby Uplands 83.3 75.3 8.0 Saints ward (77.9 years); and that male life expectancy is Wigston Fields 82.7 75.9 6.7 highest in Wigston Meadowcourt ward (81.3 years) and South Wigston 80.8 74.8 6.0 lowest in South Wigston ward (74.8 years). Oadby Grange 83.7 78.2 5.5

Oadby Woodlands 85.3 81.2 4.1 The greatest difference between the genders is in Oadby Wigston Meadowcourt 84.7 81.3 3.5 Uplands ward, where the female life expectancy is 8.0 years Oadby St Peter's 82.9 79.5 3.4 greater than the male life expectancy. Unusually, in Oadby Wigston St Wolstan's 79.7 76.8 2.8 Brocks Hill ward, male life expectancy is actually higher than Wigston All Saints 77.9 76.6 1.3 female life expectancy. Oadby Brocks Hill 78.5 79.9 -1.5

Source: Public Health Observatory

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Health Poverty Index The NHS Plan (2000) states that "no injustice is greater than the inequalities in health which scar our nation" and proposes a number of developments to combat this situation. One of these is the production of a Health Poverty Index (HPI). A simple graphical representation of the framework lying behind the design of the HPI is given below. It illustrates that the situation of health for people emerges from a history of intervening factors that are themselves based in a set of root causes. Each of these stages is influenced by the different situations in which they take place and provides a useful starting place for understanding inequalities.

For each indicator, a score of zero indicates the best situation in terms of health poverty and a score of 1 the worst situation. In other words, an area with a score near zero for a particular indicator has lower levels of health poverty in that domain than an area with a score near one. Graph 8: Health Poverty Index for 2002 Summary of graph For Oadby and Wigston the index scores the Borough as having poor levels of GDP, change in job supply, educational resourcing, wealth, local government resourcing, preventative care resourcing, quality of preventative healthcare and social care resourcing. In contrast the index has better scores for income, recreation facilities, access to preventative healthcare, home environments, work and local environments, physical morbidity and premature mortality.

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DEPRIVATION IN OADBY AND WIGSTON Summary • Whilst overall levels of deprivation are low, there are some areas in the Borough which experience worse levels of some aspects of deprivation • There are 1,142 children (under 16 years) and 1,254 older people (over 60 years) living in income deprived households

Measuring deprivation District ranking There are many ways of measuring the different aspects of At Local Authority level, Oadby and Wigston is the third least deprivation which affect different areas. The most deprived of the districts in Leicestershire. It is ranked only comprehensive, up-to-date and comparable source of data is the as the 304th most deprived district in England (out of 354, Indices of Deprivation 2004 (ID2004) which are produced by the where a ranking of 1 = most deprived, and a rank of 354 = Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). least deprived).

The Indices of Deprivation are an attempt to measure relative Table 21: ID2004 District Ranking deprivation in a consistent way for all small areas in England. Rank of average The Index of Multiple Deprivation combines different aspects of rank North West Leicestershire 195 deprivation (including income, employment, health and education) Charnwood 262 into a single deprivation score which can then be ranked and Bosworth 275 Melton 293 nationally and locally. Oadby and Wigston 304 Blaby 316 This section examines multiple deprivation in Oadby and Harborough 336

Wigston. It also considers deprivation affecting both young Source: ODPM Indices of Deprivation 2004 people and older people in more detail and highlights the areas The districts are ranked 1=most deprived, 354=least deprived where these groups are located.

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Comparison with similar Local Authorities It is possible to compare the relative deprivation ranking of each district with other local authority areas which have a similar demographic profile. The table below shows that Oadby and Wigston is the least deprived of it’s most similar authorities (based on the ONS Area Classification). Table 22: Most similar authorities Oadby and Wigston Group Rank of average District rank Bury 105 Bedford 180 Broxtowe 194 Charnwood 262 Oadby and Wigston 304 The districts are ranked 1=most deprived, 354=least deprived. Small area deprivation The Indices of Deprivation are also produced at Super Output Area (SOA) level – small areas each containing approximately 1,500 people. There are 36 SOAs in Oadby and Wigston. The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 (IMD2004) combines indicators across seven domains into a single deprivation score and rank for each Super Output Area. The domains are shown below:

• Income Deprivation • Employment Deprivation • Health Deprivation and Disability • Education, Skills and Training Deprivation • Barriers to Housing and Services • Living Environment Deprivation • Crime There are also two supplementary domains which measure income deprivation affecting children (IDAC) and income deprivation affecting older people (IDAOP).

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Graph 9: Ranking of SOAs32,482 Index of Multiple Deprivation

29,234 The Index of Multiple Deprivation considers all aspects of deprivation which affect the local community. The graph to the left shows the distribution of SOAs within the Borough. Overall, the majority of the 36 SOAs in Oadby and Wigston are ranked within the 50% least deprived in England (ranked 16,241 to 25,986

Least deprived 32,482). The median rank is 27,378 (the middle ranking SOA in Oadby and Wigston), within the 20% least deprived in England. 22,737 Most deprived areas in Oadby and Wigston The five most deprived SOAs in Oadby and Wigston are listed below, along with the ward in which they 19,489 are located. Table 23: Most deprived SOAs 16,241 County National SOA Ward Score Rank Rank E01025992 Wigston All Saints 25.00 18 10,603

National Ranking National Ranking E01025994 Wigston Fields 23.83 21 11,207 12,993 E01025987 South Wigston 23.61 24 11,345 E01025997 Wigston Fields 23.34 27 11,517 E01025988 South Wigston 21.36 36 12,837 9,745

National Rank: 1=most deprived, 32,482=least deprived 6,496 The table above shows that the most deprived areas in the Borough are in located parts of Wigston All Saints and Wigston Fields wards. The top five SOAs are ranked within the 40% most deprived in 3,248 England, and are within the top 40 in Leicestershire. Most deprived The maps on the following page show where these SOAs are located. 0 00.20.40.60.811.2

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Map 9: Index of Multiple Deprivation - most deprived SOAs Index of Multiple Deprivation The map to the left shows where the 10% most deprived SOAs in Oadby and Wigston are located. The table below shows how the SOAs are ranked within England, with the majority being within the 50% least deprived.

14 12 12 10 10 Number of Super 8 Output 6 5 Areas 4 4 2 2 2 1 00 0 0 0-10% 10-20% 20-30% 30-40% 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90% 90-100% Most deprived Least deprived

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Map 10: Income deprivation affecting children This domain measures the proportion of children - most deprived SOAs aged under 16 years who live in income deprived households (living below 60% of median income). In total, 1,142 children in Oadby and Wigston live in income deprived households. The most deprived SOA is located in part of South Wigston ward. It is ranked within the 30% most deprived in England and contains 122 children living in income deprived households: 30% of the children living in the SOA. A further two SOA are ranked within the 30% most deprived in England.

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Children living in income deprived households The maps below show the two areas which are ranked as the most The score used to rank each SOA shows the proportion of deprived in this domain i.e. they have the highest proportion of children in each area who live in income deprived children living in income deprived households. households. Using the 2001 Census population as a Map 11: SOA5988 - South Wigston denominator, it is therefore possible to calculate how many children in each ward live in income deprived households. The table below shows the number of children living in income deprived households in each ward - South Wigston has the highest number - 300 children. Table 24: Number of children living in income deprived households Number of children living in income deprived households South Wigston 300 Map 12: SOA5997 - Wigston Fields Wigston Fields 245 Wigston Meadowcourt 131 Wigston All Saints 107 Wigston St Wolstan's 80 Oadby St Peter's 73 Oadby Uplands 65 Oadby Woodlands 57 Oadby Brocks Hill 42 Oadby Grange 42 TOTAL 1,142

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Map 13: Income deprivation affecting older people This domain measures the proportion of people - most deprived SOAs aged over 60 years who live in income deprived households (living below 60% of median income). In total, 1,254 people aged over 60 years in Oadby and Wigston live in income deprived households. The most deprived SOAs are located in parts of Wigston All Saints and South Wigston wards - ranked within the 30% most deprived in England. In these areas, 1 in 4 of the population aged over 60 years live in income deprived households. These areas are shown in more detail on the following page.

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Older people living in income deprived households The maps below and on the next page show the SOAs which The score used to rank each SOA shows the proportion of are ranked as the most deprived in this domain i.e. they have people aged over 60 years in each area who live in income the highest proportion of older people living in income deprived households. Using the 2001 Census population as a deprived households. denominator, it is therefore possible to calculate how many older Map 14: SOA5992 - Wigston All Saints people in each ward live in income deprived households. The table below shows the number of older people living in income deprived households in each ward - Wigston All Saints ward has the highest number - 212 older people. Table 25: Number of older people living in income deprived households Number of older people living in income deprived households Wigston All Saints 212 Map 15: SOA5987 - South Wigston Wigston Fields 192 South Wigston 189 Wigston St Wolstan's 158 Oadby St Peter's 156 Oadby Grange 95 Oadby Uplands 84 Oadby Brocks Hill 76 Wigston Meadowcourt 47 Oadby Woodlands 45 TOTAL 1,254

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Map 16: SOA5988 - South Wigston Map 17: SOA5989 - South Wigston

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EDUCATION, SKILLS AND TRAINING

Summary • There are 11,932 pupils on the school roll in LEA schools in Oadby and Wigston • 35.9% of 16-18 year olds and 9.5% of people aged 19+ are in further education colleges or work based learning • Of the 75 sixteen year olds who left school in 2004 and entered employment, 43% were working in Craft and related occupations, 23% in Personal and protective services and 21% were classified as in an 'Other' occupation group

Education

Education and training are vital to the future well-being of the Oadby and Wigston economy particularly for enhancing the competi- tiveness of its workforce and ensuring that its industries, businesses and services have an ongoing supply of skilled employees in the future. Recent research carried out by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has also shown that success in education and train- ing is an increasingly important route out of poverty for young people, although there is evidence of increasing polarisation be- tween those who stay on and gain qualifications and those who do not.1

Statutory education in Oadby and Wigston is covered by Leicestershire Local Education Authority (LEA). There are 14 primary schools, 7 secondary schools and 2 special schools in the Borough (April 2005). Three schools also have a special unit.

The table to the right shows the number of pupils attending a Table 26: Number of pupils on school roll, 2004 school in Oadby and Wigston in January 2004 (rather than the Number of Number on schools school roll number of pupils living in the Borough). Primary 14 4,434 Secondary 7 7,395 Special 2 103 1 ‘Routes out of poverty: A research review’ November 2004, Peter Kemp, Jonathan Bradshaw, Paul Dornan, Naomi Finch and Emese Source: Leicestershire LEA Mayhew, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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Educational Attainment Pupils at school in England are now tested at various stages in their primary and secondary career. This section examines some of the performance data for state schools in Oadby and Wigston. The data in this section is based on the ward in which the pupil resides. It does not include any children educated in the independent sector or who attend schools outside the County LEA area.

Key Stage 2 GCSE Key Stage 2 is the test taken by pupils in their last year in The headline indicator for secondary schools is the primary school (age 11). A typical 11 year old is expected to proportion of pupils aged sixteen leaving school with five or achieve Level 4 in English, Mathematics and Science. Table 27 more GCSE’s at grade C or higher. Table 28 shows that in shows a variation in the attainment between different wards in Oadby Woodlands and Oadby Grange wards over 80% of the Borough. sixteen year olds obtain five or more GCSE’s at grades A* The three wards which have the highest attainment across all to C, compared to a low in South Wigston ward where only three subjects are Oadby Brocks Hill, Oadby Uplands and 43% of sixteen year olds obtain this level of qualifications. Oadby Woodlands wards. The wards with the lowest overall This compares to an average in Leicestershire of 54.7% attainment are Wigston Fields and South Wigston wards. and a national average of 53.7%

Table 27: Key Stage 2 results: % achieving level 4+ Table 28: % of pupils achieving 5 or more GCSE’s at grade A* to C, 2004 % achieving level 4+ % achieving 5+ GCSEs English Maths Science at grade A* to C Oadby Brocks Hill 88.1 81.4 86.4 Oadby Woodlands 90.4 Oadby Uplands 87.2 82.1 88.5 Oadby Grange 81.4 Oadby Woodlands 85.9 78.9 90.1 Oadby Uplands 78.0 Oadby St. Peter's 83.3 72.2 88.9 Oadby Brocks Hill 77.6 Oadby Grange 82.5 77.2 80.7 Wigston Meadowcourt 70.5 Wigston St. Wolstan's 79.4 63.5 85.7 Wigston St. Wolstan's 66.7 Wigston All Saints 73.5 61.8 77.9 Wigston All Saints 63.3 Wigston Meadowcourt 73.3 68.3 80.0 Oadby St. Peter's 59.5 Wigston Fields 67.0 59.1 77.4 Wigston Fields 50.0 South Wigston 63.6 54.5 63.6 South Wigston 42.7

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Post-16 Education Post-16 education of a vocational or academic nature is provided Graph 10: % of 16 year olds in full time education (total number of 16 years olds in brackets) through secondary schools and Further Education colleges. In Oadby Oadby Uplands (86) Full time education and Wigston, there are two secondary schools with a sixth form: Oadby Woodlands (76) Guthlaxton College and The . There are also other Oadby Grange (74) Work based local providers of training courses. training (w ithout Oadby Brocks Hill (74) employment status) The graph to the right shows the proportion of 16 year olds in each Oadby St . Pet er's (43) Full time employment ward choosing to remain in full-time education. There are quite large Wigston All Saints (92) geographical differences. For example, over 90% of 16 year olds in Wigst on M eadowcourt (101) Voluntary and par t time activities Oadby Uplands, Oadby Woodlands and Oadby Grange wards remained Wigst on St . Wolst an's (82) in full-time education whilst only 70% of 16 year olds in South Wigston Wigst on Fields (99) NEET ward remained in full-time education. An average of 83% of 16 year Sout h Wigst on (86) olds living in the Borough remained in full time education. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Other The graph also shows the destination of those leaving full-time Source: Connexions, 2004 education in each ward including those not in employment, education or training (NEET). Over 10% of 16 year olds in South Wigston ward are in this category.

Post 16 Educational Attainment Table 29: Average point score per student in Further Data on the average GCE / VCE (General and Vocational Certificate of Education establishments, 2004 Education) point score of 16-18 year old candidates collected by the Average point score per student Department for Education and Skills in 2003 shows how the further Guthlaxton College, Wigston 285.1 education providers in Oadby and Wigston compare with the average The Beauchamp College, Oadby 267.8 performance in the county and in England. Points are awarded as Leicestershire 261.0 England 269.2 follows: an A-level A grade is worth 120 points, B 100, C 80, D 60, E 50, and an AS level is worth half an A-level. Source: Department for Education and Skills Performance Tables, 2003 38 Oadby and Wigston Community Profile 2005 Produced by Research & Information Team Leicestershire County Council

16 year olds in employment Number of learners aged 16-18 and 19+ Of the 75 sixteen year olds living in Oadby and Wigston who left Table 30 shows the percentage of learners* in further school in 2004 and entered employment, 43% were working in education colleges or work based learning in the 16 - 18 Craft and related occupations, 23% in Personal and protective and 19+ age categories. services and 21% were classified as in an 'Other' occupation It shows that the highest percentages of 16 - 18 year olds group. The proportion of 16 year olds working in Craft and in work based learning or in education are located in Related occupations is considerably higher than the county South Wigston and Wigston Fields wards. The highest average, while the proportion employed in Sales occupations is percentages of people aged over 19 years in education much lower than the rest of the county. or work based learning are located in Wigston Fields and

Graph 11: 16 year olds in employment by sector, 2004 Oadby Uplands wards.

Other occupations (90-99) Table 30: Percentage of learners by age

Plant and machine operat ives Oadby and Wigston Age 16-18 Age 19+ (80-89) Leicestershire South Wigston 53.2% 10.3% Sales occupations (70-79) Wigston Fields 48.5% 10.8% Personal and prot ect ive services occupation (60-69) Wigston Meadowcourt 44.9% 9.7%

Craf t and relat ed Wigston All Saints 43.2% 9.2% occupations (50-59) Oadby St. Peter's 38.4% 10.3% Clerical and secret arial occupations (40-49) Wigston St. Wolstan's 33.1% 7.9% M anagerial and prof essional Oadby Woodlands 29.9% 9.4% occupations (10-39) Oadby Uplands 27.6% 10.5% 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 percentage Oadby Brocks Hill 27.4% 9.9% Oadby Grange 13.2% 6.8% Source: Connexions, 2004

Source: Leicestershire Learning and Skills Council * Does not include those in sixth form colleges or schools

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Map 18: ID2004: Education, Skills and Training deprivation This domain captures the extent of deprivation in education, skills and training of people living in the local area. It considers both the attainment levels of school children, absence rates, the proportion of people not staying on in school or further education beyond 16 years along with the proportion of adults with no or low qualifications. Oadby and Wigston experiences relatively high levels of deprivation in this domain, with four SOAs ranked within the 20% most deprived in England. They are all located in parts of Wigston Fields and South Wigston wards.

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Education, skills and training deprivation The Borough experiences higher levels of deprivation in this domain than in most of the others. Four SOAs are ranked within the 20% most deprived nationally - parts of Wigston Fields and South Wigston wards - shown on the maps below.

Map 19: SOA5994 - Wigston Fields Map 20: SOA5997 - Wigston Fields

Map 21: SOA5988 - South Wigston Map 22: SOA5989 - South Wigston

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ECONOMY

Summary • There are 33,700 people of working age living in Oadby and Wigston (60.1% of the population) • 82.2% of the working age population are economically active • 1.7% of the working age population claim Job Seekers Allowance • 83.8% of businesses in Oadby and Wigston employ less than 10 people

Key issues for Oadby & Wigston Table 31: Working age population • High rates of employment and economic activity Leicester- East Great Oadby & Wigston shire Midlands Britain • Relatively low levels of qualifications Number % % % % All people 33,700 60.1 62.2 61.2 61.4 • Low rates of PC-use at work Male 17,400 63.8 65.8 64.3 64.6 Female 16,300 56.7 58.6 58.2 58.3 • High recognition of need for interpersonal skills

• Relatively high levels of basic skills compared to The table above shows that the percentage of working age county and regional figures population in Oadby and Wigston is slightly lower than the • Low rates of work-related training proportion for the county, region and nation. • General satisfaction with local training provision • Few stated barriers to further training / learning Job Density

Life & Work Survey, 2003 (LSC) Job Density is a measure of the ratio of total jobs to the working age population. A job density of 1.0 would mean that The table above shows the key issues affecting the economy there is one job for every resident of working age. In Oadby in Oadby and Wigston as identified by the 2003 Life and Work and Wigston, the job density is 0.6 (less than one job for every Survey. The following section looks at all aspects of the local resident). This is lower than the regional and national ratio economy in Oadby and Wigston. (0.8 and 0.8 respectively).

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Economic activity Economic inactivity Economic activity measures the number of people aged between 16 Economic inactivity measures the number of people of and 74 who are in work or looking for work as a proportion of the working age neither in employment nor unemployed, e.g. working age population (16-74 years). people who are looking after the home, retired or sick. The table below shows that 82.2% of people of working age in the The Labour Force Survey estimates that there are 6,000 Borough are economically active - a higher proportion than the people in Borough that are economically inactive. This is a regional or national proportion, but lower than the county proportion. lower proportion than the regional and national proportion, Table 32: Economic activity but higher than the county proportion. Leicester- East Great Oadby & Wigston shire Midlands Britain Table 33: Economic inactivity Number % % % % Leicester East Great All people Oadby & Wigston shire Midlands Britain Economically active 28,000 82.2 84.9 79.0 78.2 Number % % % % In employment 26,000 77.3 82.0 75.3 74.3 All people Employees 25,000 73.2 71.1 66.3 64.8 Economically inactive 6,000 17.8 15.1 21.0 21.8 Self employed 1,000 4.1 10.3 8.6 9.0 Wanting a job 2,000 5.2 4.3 5.2 5.7 Unemployed (ILO) 2,000 5.9 3.4 4.7 5.0 Not wanting a job 4,000 12.6 10.9 15.8 16.1 Males Males Economically active 16,000 90.9 89.6 83.9 83.4 Economically inactive 2,000 9.1 10.4 16.1 16.6 In employment 14,000 83.0 85.9 79.8 78.9 Wanting a job -- -- 3.0 4.6 4.7 Employees 13,000 76.6 71.2 67.1 65.5 Not wanting a job 1,000 5.3 7.3 11.5 11.9 Self employed 1,000 6.4 13.9 12.2 13.0 Females Unemployed (ILO) 1,000 8.7 4.1 5.0 5.4 Economically inactive 5,000 26.8 20.2 26.3 27.2 Females Wanting a job 1,000 6.7 5.6 6.0 6.7 Economically active 12,000 73.2 79.8 73.7 72.8 Not wanting a job 3,000 20.0 14.6 20.3 20.5 In employment 12,000 71.4 77.9 70.6 69.5 Employees 12,000 69.7 70.9 65.4 64.2 Percentages are based on working age population, except unemployed Self employed -- -- 6.5 4.8 4.8 which is based on economically active Unemployed (ILO) -- -- 2.5 4.3 4.5 Totals may not add due to rounding -- Sample size too small for reliable estimate Percentages are based on working age population, except unemployed ‘Wanting a job’ - people not in employment who want a job but are not which is based on economically active classed as unemployed because they have either not sought work in the Totals may not add due to rounding last 4 weeks or are not available to start work -- Sample size too small for reliable estimate ILO - International Labour Organisation definition of unemployment Source: Local Area Labour Force Survey (March 2003 - Feb 2004) 43 Oadby and Wigston Community Profile 2005 Produced by Research & Information Team Leicestershire County Council

Employment by occupation The Local Labour Force Survey, conducted annually, Table 34: Employment by occupation collects information on the occupation of people living in Leicester- East Great Oadby and Wigston. The table to the right shows the Oadby & Wigston shire Midlands Britain Number % % % % proportion of the population employed in each socio- Soc 2000 major group 1-3 13,000 46.1 39.0 37.0 40.5 1. Managers and senior officials 3,000 9.4 15.5 13.9 14.6 economic classification. It shows that the largest 2. Professional occupations 6,000 21.8 11.4 10.7 12.1 occupation groups are Professional occupations (21.8%), 3. Associate professionals & technical 4,000 15.0 12.0 12.3 13.8 Soc 2000 major group 4-5 7,000 24.1 26.3 24.6 24.4 Associate professionals (15%) and Administrative and 4. Administrative & secretarial 4,000 14.6 13.6 12.4 13.0 secretarial (14.6%). 5. Skilled trades occupations 3,000 9.6 12.7 12.1 11.4 Soc 2000 major group 6-7 3,000 10.0 15.9 15.7 15.5 The Borough has a lower proportion of people employed 6. Personal service occupations -- -- 6.5 7.4 7.5 7. Sales and customer services 2,000 7.9 9.3 8.2 8.0 as Managers and senior officials, in Skilled trades and in Soc 2000 major group 8-9 5,000 19.7 18.8 22.7 19.6 Elementary occupations than the rest of the county, but a 8. Process plant & machine operatives 3,000 11.2 8.4 10.0 7.7 9. Elementary occupations 2,000 8.5 10.3 12.6 11.8 higher proportion employed in Professional, Associate professional and Process plant and machine operatives occupations.

Qualifications Table 35: Qualifications (% of working age population) The table to the right shows the qualifications of the Leicester- East Great working age population in Oadby and Wigston and how Oadby & Wigston shire Midlands Britain Number % % % % this compares to the rest of the county and the region. It NVQ4 and above 10,000 28.6 23.5 22.2 25.2 shows that over 48% of the working age population in the NVQ3 and above 16,000 47.8 43.7 41.4 43.1 NVQ2 and above 23,000 66.6 63.7 59.7 61.5 Borough are educated to at least NVQ level 3*. This is NVQ1 and above 27,000 78.5 78.9 75.7 76.0 Other qualifications 1,000 2.8 8.0 7.6 8.8 higher than the proportion for the county, region and No qualifications 6,000 18.6 13.1 16.6 15.1 Great Britain. (* NVQ level 3 is equivalent to 2 A-levels, vocational A-level (AVCE), Source: Local Area Labour Force Survey (March 2003 - Feb 2004) BTEC National or an Advanced GNVQ) 44 Oadby and Wigston Community Profile 2005 Produced by Research & Information Team Leicestershire County Council

Earnings by residence Earnings by workplace The table below shows the average earnings of people who The table below shows the average earnings of people live in Oadby and Wigston. It shows that gross weekly pay who work in the county. Unfortunately the figures are too in the Borough is lower than in the rest of the county. small to give accurate figures for the Borough. Table 36: Earnings by residence Table 37: Earnings by workplace Oadby & Leicester- East Great Oadby & Leicester- East Great Wigston shire Midlands Britain Wigston shire Midlands Britain Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Gross weekly Gross weekly pay pay Full-time workers -- 456.6 439.4 475.8 Full-time workers 406.9 456.6 439.4 475.8 Male -- 501.9 480.5 525.0 Male -- 501.9 480.5 525.0 Female -- 374.6 363.6 396.0 Female -- 374.6 363.6 396.0 Hourly pay Hourly pay Full-time workers -- 11.6 11.0 12.0 Full-time workers -- 11.6 11.0 12.0 Male -- 12.4 11.6 12.8 Male -- 12.4 11.6 12.8 Female -- 10.0 9.6 10.6 Female -- 10.0 9.6 10.6 Note: -- Data unavailable Table 38: Employee jobs Leicester- East Great Employee jobs Oadby & Wigston shire Midlands Britain Number % % % % The table to the left shows the number of people Total employee jobs 16,568 ------Full-time 10,568 63.8 68.0 66.7 68.1 working full and part time, and the sector that they Part-time 6,000 36.2 32.0 33.3 31.9 are employed in. The percentages are based on Manufacturing 4,345 26.2 20.4 18.3 12.6 Construction 514 3.1 4.9 4.7 4.4 the total employee jobs. Services 11,699 70.6 72.7 75.0 81.4 Oadby and Wigston has a higher proportion of its Distribution, hotels & restaurants 4,571 27.6 26.9 24.8 24.7 Transport & communications 727 4.4 8.5 5.7 6.0 workforce employed in Manufacturing and Public Finance, IT, other business activities 1,873 11.3 13.3 14.4 19.8 Public admin, education, health 3,623 21.9 19.7 25.7 25.8 administration than the rest of the county, and a Other services 904 5.5 4.3 4.4 5.2 lower proportion employed in Transport, Construc- Tourism-related 1,365 8.2 7.3 7.5 8.1 tion and Finance / IT. Source: Annual Business Inquiry Employee Analysis, 2003 45 Oadby and Wigston Community Profile 2005 Produced by Research & Information Team Leicestershire County Council

Hours worked The table below shows the number of hours worked in Oadby and Wigston (as a percentage of the working age population). The Borough has a higher than average proportion of its working age population working part time (compared with both Leicestershire and the East Midlands). It also has a lower proportion of its working age population working over 48 hours a week (14.6% com- pared to 17.1% for the county and 16.3% for the region). Table 39: Hours worked Oadby and Leicester- East Wigston shire Midlands All people 25,784 295,754 1,917,728 % working part time 25.5 24.1 23.6 % working full time 74.5 75.9 73.7 % working over 48hrs a week 14.6 17.1 16.3

Source: 2001 Census Key Statistics

Business size The table below shows the proportion of people employed in Oadby and Wigston by the size of business that they are employed in. It shows that the Borough has a higher proportion of its workforce employed in businesses which employ between 11 and 49 employees than the county (13.5% against a county figure of 12.2%). Table 40: Business size

Number of Oadby and Leicester- East Great employees Wigston shire Midlands Britain 1-10 83.8% 84.5% 82.5% 83.3% 11-49 13.5% 12.2% 13.6% 12.9% 50+ 2.7% 3.6% 3.9% 3.8%

Source: Annual Business Inquiry, 2003

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Table 41: Number of business units* by Broad Industrial Group

Oadby and Leicester- East Great Wigston shire Midlands Britain Total 2,200 24,250 152,050 2,213,800 1 : Agriculture and fishing (SIC A,B) 0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.5% 2 : Energy and water (SIC C,E) 0.0% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 3 : Manufacturing (SIC D) 11.4% 11.3% 10.4% 7.8% 4 : Construction (SIC F) 6.8% 10.7% 10.1% 9.0% 5 : Distribution, hotels and restaurants (SIC G,H) 25.0% 28.0% 30.7% 29.5% 6 : Transport and communications (SIC I) 4.5% 6.4% 5.3% 4.7% 7 : Banking, finance and insurance, etc (SIC J,K) 22.7% 26.6% 24.9% 30.5% 8 : Public administration, education & health (SIC L,M,N) 22.7% 8.7% 9.5% 8.7% 9 : Other services (SIC O,P,Q) 6.8% 7.8% 8.5% 9.2%

Source: Annual Business Inquiry, 2003 The table above shows that the Borough has a much higher proportion of business units in the Public administration, education and health industrial group compared to the county, region and country. Increasingly it will be the knowledge-intensive information economy sectors, together with those driven by increasing consumption (e.g. tourism and recreation) that are likely to represent the strongest future growth areas. The table below shows the current proportion of the workforce in Oadby and Wigston that are employed in these sectors.

Oadby and Leicester- East Great Wigston shire Midlands Britain Consumer Services (%) 24.0 20.3 19.7 21.0 High Technology Manufacturing (%) 3.9 2.2 1.7 1.9 Consumer Services - SIC codes 52 (Retail), 55 (Hotels & Knowledge Based Services (%) 9.5 11.6 12.6 17.7 restaurants), 92 (Recreational, cultural & sporting) High Tech Manufacturing - SIC codes 22 (Publishing, printing), 24.4 (Manufacture of pharmaceuticals), 30 Source: Annual Business Inquiry, 2003 (Manufacture of office machinery, computers), 32 (Manufacture of radio, TV, communications) Note: Percentages are of total employment Knowledge Based Services - SIC codes 65 (Financial), 66 (Insurance, pensions), 67 (Auxiliary financial), 72 (computer- related activities), 73 (Research & development), 74 (Other * Business units are roughly equivalent to workplaces. For example, a bank may business activities) have several branches and offices in a city - each one of these would be counted as a separate data (business) unit.

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Employment land and floorspace in Oadby and Wigston Graph 12: Floorspace by age The graph to the right shows the age of employment floorspace by type. Warehouse As an overall proportion of the floorspace in each category, the majority was constructed before 1970, with only office and warehouse units Pre 1940 Factory being built since 1990. 1940-70 1971-80 Retail 1981-90 1991-2000

Office

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Graph 13: New employment land

Employment land 3.5

Since 1996, 6 hectares of land have been developed in Oadby 3 and Wigston for employment uses (at 31 March 2004), an 2.5 average of 0.8 hectares each year. The graph to the right shows 2 annual completions. There are currently a number of sites with outstanding planning 1.5 hectares permission for employment uses. 1

0.5

0 96/97 97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04

Source: Leicestershire County Council Land Monitoring Report, 2004

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Job Seekers Allowance Claimants The Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) is payable to people under pensionable age who are available for, and actively seeking, work of at least 40 hours per week. The percentage figures show the number of JSA claimants as a proportion of resident-age working population. The table below shows that the proportion of people claiming JSA in Oadby and Wigston is slightly lower than the rest of the region and Great Britain, but higher than the county rate. Table 43: Total JSA Claimants Leicester- East Great Oadby & Wigston shire Midlands Britain Number % % % % All people 565 1.7 1.3 2.1 2.4 Male 393 2.3 1.7 3.0 3.4 Female 172 1.1 0.8 1.2 1.3

Source: Claimant Count, May 2005

Age: In Oadby and Wigston, 26.0% of JSA claimants are aged 18 - 24 years, 53.8% are aged 25 - 49 years and 19.4% are aged over 50 years. The Borough has a higher proportion of people claiming JSA aged over 50 years than the regional average of 18%. Duration: 66% of JSA claimants in Oadby and Wigston have been claiming this benefit for less than six months. 14.1% of claim- ants have been claiming for more than 12 months - above the regional average of 12.5%.

VAT Registrations / De-registrations • At the end of 2003, there were 1,405 VAT registered businesses in Oadby and Wigston. • In 2003, there was a net increase in the number of VAT registered businesses with 150 new businesses registering and 125 de-registering (Source: VAT registrations / de-registrations by industry, 2003). • The VAT threshold is an annual turnover of £55,000. Below this figure, companies do not need to register for VAT.

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Economic and Labour Market Conditions Graph 14: Competitiveness Summary Chart Economic scale The Leicester Shire Economic Baseline Study* was completed 120 100 in 2004 by ECOTEC Consultants on behalf of the Leicester 80 Shire Economic Partnership. It reviewed the current economic 60 and labour market conditions and forecast changes anticipated Workforce 40 Dynamism 20 over the next decade for Leicester and Leicestershire. 0 Oadby & Wigston Leicestershire Oadby and Wigston The Study concluded that the strongest indicator for Oadby and Wigston is workforce (score of 100.4). This is the only Enterprise Sector structure indicator where the Borough scores higher than the national benchmark (100). Competitiveness summary chart, Leicester Shire Economic Baseline Study The Borough is weak in economic scale, where it scores 29.9. 2004, produced by ECOTEC Research and Consulting for Leicester Shire This is similar to Melton Borough which scored 28.0. The Borough also ranks relatively poorly on sector structure Table 44: Overall economic profile and enterprise. Oadby & Wigston Leicestershire Score Rank Score Rank * Source: Leicester Shire Economic Baseline Study, 2004 Available to Economic scale 29.9 389 51.2 -- download from www.lsint.info Dynamism 92.7 389 97.0 -- Sector structure 44.0 382 61.5 -- Enterprise 88.8 319 101.7 -- Workforce 100.4 232 111.2 --

Score = against national benchmark of 100 Rank = against 408 local authority areas in Great Britain

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Largest employers in Oadby and Wigston The table below lists the companies with the largest number of employees in Oadby and Wigston Table 45: Largest Employers No of Name of Business Nature of Business Employees Astron, South Wigston Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) 750 R F Brookes Ltd, Wigston Manufacturer of chilled baked pastry & dough products 600 Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, Wigston Magna Food retailers 525 H M Young Offender Institution & Remand Centre, Wigston Young offender institution & remand centre 500 The Jacobs Bakery Ltd, South Wigston Biscuit Manufacturers 500 Asda Stores Ltd, Oadby Supermarket 430 Cromwell Group (Holdings) Ltd, Wigston Industrial supply company - Specialists in tools 600 Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, Oadby Food retailer 300 Hallam Contracts, Oadby Builders and residential commercial & industrial developers 280 South Leicestershire College, 270 Vertis Direct Marketing Services Leicester Ltd, Wigston Colour printers of direct response products & advertising material 250

Source: Data4Business database listing, July 2005

Town Centre uses The ODPM Town Centres Statistics project aims to produce consistent boundaries for town centres across England and Wales, together with statistics covering employment and floorspace. These statistical boundaries are generated from data on economic activity, in order to take a consistent approach to defining town centres - they do not define town centres for planning policy purposes. The maps and tables on the following page highlight the two town centres in the Borough that the project has considered: Oadby and Wigston. They are based on 2002 data and shows both the number of employees in each town centre and the type of business that they are employed in. Table 47 and 49 lists the floorspace given to each retail type (A1: shops, A2: Professional offices - betting shops, estate agents, travel agents, A3: pubs, cafes, restaurants and takeaways).

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Map 23: Town centre - Oadby Map 24: Town centre - Wigston

Table 46: Employment (persons) Number of Table 48: Employment (persons) Number of employees employees Convenience Retail 110 Convenience Retail 410 Comparison Retail 110 Comparison Retail 310 Service Retail 40 Service Retail 80 Offices 190 Offices 150 Civic and Public Administration 0 Civic and Public Administration Disclosive Restaurants and Licensed Premises 20 Restaurants and Licensed Premises 110 Arts, Culture and Entertainment 30 Arts, Culture and Entertainment 30 Table 47: Floorspace (sqm) & Rateable value (£) Table 49: Floorspace (sqm) & Rateable value (£) (sq m) (£) (sq m) (£) A1 9,150 894,100 A1 20,220 1,926,050 A2 1,770 209,600 A2 2,040 251,750 A3 Disclosive 18,600 A3 1,000 93,650 Offices 5,130 289,030 Offices 1,430 84,730 The map background is based upon the OS map by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) with permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Licence Number: 100018986. 52 Oadby and Wigston Community Profile 2005 Produced by Research & Information Team Leicestershire County Council

Household income Table 50: Average household income by district, 2005 Table 50 shows the average household income in Oadby Mean household income (£) and Wigston is £30,275. This is the lowest of all the Harborough 37,460 Blaby 34,166 Districts in Leicestershire and is below the county average Hinckley & Bosworth 32,391 of £32,760. It is above the regional average of £29,259. Melton 32,174 North West Leicestershire 32,100 The average household income in the Borough has Charnwood 31,234 increased by over £1,000 since 2004. Oadby & Wigston 30,275 Leicestershire County 32,760

Table 51 shows that there is a very large variation between Table 51: Average household income by ward, 2005 the wards within Oadby and Wigston. The ward with the Mean household Change highest average household income is Oadby Grange ward income (£) 2004/05 (£)

(£41,611). The wards with the lowest average household Oadby Grange 41,611 4,499 income are South Wigston (£25,000), Wigston Fields Oadby Woodlands 41,091 1,617

(£25,240) and Oadby St Peters wards (£25,863). Oadby Brocks Hill 33,507 1,354

Oadby Uplands 33,032 1,742 Average household income in Oadby Grange and Oadby St Wigston Meadowcourt 32,361 -287 Peters wards has increased considerably since 2004 (by Wigston St Wolstan's 28,127 -528 £4,499 and £3,282 respectively). Four wards also saw their Wigston All Saints 27,834 -224 average household income decline in 2004 / 05. Oadby St Peter's 25,863 3,282

Wigston Fields 25,240 -121

South Wigston 25,000 1,468

Source: CACI, 2005

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House Prices The table below shows the average selling price (and the number of sales) for each house type (detached, semi-detached, terrace, flat / maisonette) for the first three months of 2005. In all house types - with the exception of terraced dwellings - the average selling price of dwellings in Oadby and Wigston is lower than the county . The average selling price for flats in the Borough may be distorted by the low numbers of sales - eight - that the average selling price is calculated from. Table 52: House price

Detached Semi-Detached Terraced Flat/Maisonette Overall Average Average Average Average Average price Sales price Sales price Sales price Sales price Sales Oadby & Wigston £241,628 41 £141,623 54 £119,091 42 £91,650 8 £160,616 145 Leicestershire £257,403 569 £144,129 657 £119,017 432 £113,252 102 £172,796 1,760 East Midlands £222,576 3,926 £128,974 4,304 £106,700 3,869 £112,808 903 £149,486 13,022

Source: Land Registry, January - March 2005 House affordability ratio The table below shows the house affordability ratio which considers the relationship between average income and average house price in an area. A higher figure implies that housing is less affordable. For detached, semi-detached and terraced properties in Oadby and Wigston, the affordability ratio is higher than the Leicestershire and East Midlands ratio (meaning that they are less affordable). The lower affordability ratio in the ’flat’ category could be explained by the low numbers that this calculation is based on. The last column in the table shows the average earnings figure that the affordability ratio is based upon. Table 53: House affordability Semi Flat / Average annual earnings Detached Detached Terraced maisonette Overall (resident based) Oadby & Wigston 14.6 8.6 7.2 5.5 9.7 £16,533 Leicestershire 12.9 7.2 6.0 5.7 8.6 £19,991 East Midlands 11.7 6.8 5.6 5.9 7.9 £18,975 England and Wales 11.6 6.8 5.7 6.8 7.4 £20,796 Source: Land Registry 2005, New Earnings Survey

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CRIME Summary • Offences recorded by the police in Oadby & Wigston Borough in 2004/05, shows falling Vehicle Crime and Burglary but an increase in Violent crime.

In 2004/05 there was a total of 3,481 recorded offences in 1997/98 1999/00 2001/02 2003/04 1998/99 2000/01 2002/03 2004/05 Oadby and Wigston Borough, down by 1% on the previous Graph 15: 825 Trends in year. 662 crime types 618

482 448 392 397 The histogram (following page) and trend-lines (right) show Assault 303 825 783 808 that the highest crime types in Oadby and Wigston are 731 747 664 Assault, Criminal damage and All other theft. The trend-lines 593 Criminal Damage 492 show the number of recorded offences over the last eight 682 603 628 623 573 575 years. 516 All Other Theft 476

Vehicle Crime 594 596 The trend-lines are ranked (top to bottom) by the number of 513 450 crimes recorded in 2004/05, ranging from the highest to the 404 397 332 323 lowest for the six major crime categories. The number of 327 307 Burglary Other 273 263 Assault offences reached a peak in 2004/05, accounting for 239 219 231 24% of total recorded offences in the Borough. 171 Burglary Dwelling 421

335 Assault covers a range of different offences from the less 281 241 215 224 230 185 serious (harassment, verbal abuse) to more serious violent Changes to Home Office crime (grievous bodily harm-GBH, wounding). counting rules and coverage

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Criminal damage accounts for 23% of total crime in Histogram (below) shows the number of offences recorded in Oadby Oadby and Wigston Borough. Since 1997/98, the and Wigston (2004/05) are dominated by Assault, Criminal damage number of Criminal damage offences have been and All other thefts. steadily increasing, however in the last financial year, Graph 16: Number of recorded offences, 2004/05 there has been a slight decline. Criminal damage criminal assault (includes and is also referred to as vandalism), has damage 900 (24%) (23%) been linked to low level anti-social behaviour. 800 all other burglary 700 theft (18%) other theft 600 (7%) The type of offences recorded in the All other theft from 500 burglary vehicle other dwelling (6%) category which accounts for 18% of total crime is less 400 theft of (7%) (7%) vehicle 300 obvious. Further research conducted in the county, (3%) 200 suggests that crimes which fall under this category are cycle theft, 100 drug and the theft of handbags/purses, phones etc, which had 0 sexual all < 3% each been left unattended in public places (leisure centres, pubs, shops, etc). Bar width is proportional to the percentage of all crime in Oadby and Targeting appropriate situational crime prevention Wigston Borough for each crime category. Crime categories are measures to reduce the opportunity for these type of displayed in ranked order left to right (highest proportion of all crime to crime may help to reverse this trend. However this is a lowest). Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number. broad category which consists of different types of thefts. Source: Leicestershire Constabulary, CIS

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What does this chart show? Graph 17: Summary of This section provides a summary of five major types of crime type Oadby Brocks Hill Oadby Grange Oadby St Peter’s Oadby Uplands crime, plus total crime, for each ward in Oadby and Wigston. by ward 02/03 03/04 04/05 02/03 03/04 04/05 02/03 03/04 04/05 02/03 03/04 04/05 Assault Each dot represents a comparison of that wards crime rate Burglary Dwelling per thousand population to the average for Oadby and Burglary Other

Wigston. The comparison is specific to each crime type and Criminal Damage each year. The legend below indicates what each type of dot Vehicle Crime represents. Total Crime The general rule is: more ink on the dot equals a higher Oadby Woodlands South Wigston Wigston All Saints Wigston Fields crime rate in that ward compared to the average for the 02/03 03/04 04/05 02/03 03/04 04/05 02/03 03/04 04/05 02/03 03/04 04/05

Borough. Assault

Viewed horizontally, the dots show the performance of that Burglary Dwelling ward for a particular type of crime over the three year period. Burglary Other Viewed vertically, the dots show the performance of that Criminal Damage Vehicle Crime ward for all five major crime types for that one year. Total Crime

What doesn’t this chart show? Wigston Wigston St Wolstan’s Meadowcourt This chart does not give any indication of how crime rates in 02/03 03/04 04/05 02/03 03/04 04/05 Assault - much higher than average (+40% and over) wards in Oadby and Wigston compare to other crime rates in Burglary Dwelling - higher than average (+21% to +39%) the county, region or country. It does not necessarily show Burglary Other - average (+/- 20%) whether the number of crimes has gone up or down. It only Criminal Damage - lower than average (-21% to -39%) shows the crime rates relative to other wards in Oadby and Vehicle Crime - much lower than average (-40% and over)

Wigston. Total Crime Source: Leicestershire Constabulary, CIS

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What does this tell us? Map 25: Wards in Oadby & Wigston Borough

For the last three years Oadby St Peter’s, South Wigston and Wigston All Saints wards all have much higher than average total crime rates compared to the other wards within the Borough.

Total crime rates have remained average across the three years in Wigston Fields, Oadby Grange and Wigston St. Wolstan’s wards. However, in Wigston Fields ward both Burglary other and Burglary dwelling have changed from average to much higher than average within the Borough during the three year period.

Conversely, in Oadby Grange and Wigston St. Wolstan’s ward Burglary other has changed from being higher than the Borough average in 2002/03 to below the Borough average 2004/05.

In Wigston Fields ward both Assault and Vehicle crime were much higher than the Borough average in 2002/03. Both of these offence types are now average for the Borough in 2004/05.

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Crime hotspots in Oadby and Wigston Borough

The maps below show that the main crime hot-spots in Oadby & Wigston Borough are located around Wigston Town Centre and The Parade in Oadby. Hotspot around The Parade in Oadby

Map 26: Total recorded offences by census output area 2004/05

Hotspot around Wigston town centre

Total Recorded Offences 2004/05 100 to 213 (4) 75 to 100 (2) 50 to 75 (9) 0 to 50 (160)

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Crime hotspots in Oadby and Wigston The table below shows the recorded crime for each of these hot-spot areas. This shows that in 2004/05 there have been reductions in both crime hotspots in Oadby and Wigston Borough. Furthermore, the reductions have been greater than the Borough as a whole. There has been a reduction of 4% in the output area hotspot in Wigston town centre and a reduction of 3% in the output area hotspot covering The Parade in Oadby. This compares to a slight reduction of just 1% for the Borough as a whole. All other theft (26%), Assault (23%) and Criminal damage (24%) combined to nearly three quarters of all crime in the Wigston town centre area hotspot.

Half of all crime in the Oadby Parade hotspot is categorised as All other theft. A large proportion of the offences (40%) are recorded as theft from shops and stalls. This reflects the concentration of retail premises in this area. Also, the proportion of All other theft offences at The Parade hot-spot, 50%, is considerably higher than both the Borough total of 18% and the Wigston town centre hotspot total of 26%

Table 54: Oadby and Wigston Borough crime hotspots profile by recorded offence category

Theft Total Crime Criminal All Other Burglary Burglary from 03/04 04/05Trend Assault Damage Theft Other Other Dwelling Vehicle

Oadby & Wigston Borough 3,519 3,481 T -1% 24% 23% 18% 7% 7% 7% 6%

Wigston town centre hot-spot 408 391 T -4% 23% 24% 26% 7% 4% 2% 4%

The Parade, Oadby hot-spot 256 248 T -3% 14% 11% 50% 12% 4% 2% 2%

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TRAVEL TO WORK

Summary • There is a net outflow from the Borough and the majority of the workplace population live and work outside the Borough. • Leicester City is the most popular destination for work for people living in the Borough, and also provides the workforce with the most people from outside the Borough • In Oadby and Wigston 67.7% of people aged 16 to 74 in employment travel to work by car

Table 55: Travel to work Number of Workplace Lives and % of workplace Lives in and Lives outside Net % of workplace residents aged population works in the population living works outside and works in Flow population living 16 to 74 Borough and working in Borough Borough outside but working the Borough in Borough

40,522 19,018 9,128 48% 17,523 9,890 -7,633 52%

Journey Destination Journey Origin

Table 56: District destination of people aged 16 to 74 in employment Table 57: District origin of people aged 16 to 74 in employment % of people leaving % of people entering Number of Oadby and Wigston Number of Oadby and Wigston to people to work people work Leicester 11,014 63% Oadby & Wigston 9,129 - Oadby & Wigston 9,129 - Leicester 4,237 43% Blaby 2,371 14% Blaby 2,092 21% Harborough 868 5% Harborough 1,481 15% Charnwood 681 4% Charnwood 714 7% Hinckley & Bosworth 410 2% Hinckley & Bosworth 403 4% North West Leicestershire 173 1% North West leicestershire 127 1% 121 1% Melton 88 1% Coventry 117 1% 61 1% Birmingham 98 1% 45 0.5% Rugby 90 1% Rugby 43 0.4% 61 Oadby and Wigston Community Profile 2005 Produced by Research & Information Team Leicestershire County Council

Mode of transport • In Oadby and Wigston 67.7% of people aged 16 to 74 in employment travel to work by car, a slightly lower proportion than the County - 71%. • 10.6% travel to work by public transport. This is much higher than the rest of the county area - 6%.

The maps below show the mode of travel to work of people aged 16 to 74 in employment by Output Area for the Borough:

Map 27: Percentage travelling to work by car Map 28: Percentage travelling to work by Bus by (either driving or passenger) by Output Area Output Area

14.8% to 23.1% 11.4% to 14.8% 8.8% to 11.4% 6.3% to 8.8% 0% to 6.3%

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SUMMARY AND GAPS

This report takes a descriptive approach to information on the community in Oadby and Wigston using readily available data sets. Where possible, areas of deficiencies or strengths have been identified to assist both the Borough Council and the Local Strategic Partnership to identify the issues which may need to be addressed. Very limited analysis has been undertaken: the report presents only what is happening, it does not explain why it is happening.

However, given the timescale for preparing this report, there are a number of data sets which have not been explored in any great detail. There are also a number of issues which have not been considered in detail due to the lack of available information.

The main gaps in this report are highlighted below. This list may be a starting point for further in-depth work, and may yield further issues to be tackled:

• Healthier communities - It has proved difficult in the short timescale to obtain detailed information on the health and lifestyles of people living in the Borough. In many cases it is because the information is hard to obtain or does not exist – for example data on smoking and levels of exercise. In other cases, where such small numbers are involved, authorities are reluctant to release information that could identify individuals or give misleading results when analysed. Any future research in this area should be done in conjunction with health experts who may be able to access new data sets and will have more experience of analysing the results.

• Attitudinal data - There is a wealth of attitudinal data available from sources such as the Users Satisfaction Survey 2004 and the Household Survey conducted by the Learning and Skills Council in 2003. There is also a range of more local consultations which could be used to identify the issues of concern to local residents. Further research could be undertaken to show if attitudes demonstrated by the local community match the ‘real world’ situation, and whether any interventions could adequately address these concerns.

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• Access to Services - There is a lack of information regarding access to key local services by individuals and communities. To a small extent, one aspect of this is addressed in the Indices of Deprivation Barriers to Services domain. However, further in-depth research is required to identify different issues affecting different parts of the community in different areas, both in terms of the pro- vision of services and access to them.

• Benefits data - The Department for Work and Pensions has recently released more detailed information on different types of benefits claimants at Super Output Area level for the first time. More detailed analysis of this data (at a smaller geography than was previously possible) may identify smaller areas with different problems. Access to other data sets, some held by the Borough council (such as council tax and housing benefits claimants) would compliment this research.

• Environmental data - One area which has not been considered by this report relates to the environment. Environmental data is notoriously difficult to collect and is often only available at a higher level of geography. Further research is required to identify potential sources of data and analyse the impact of various environmental factors on the local community, along with the impact of the local community on the environment.

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GLOSSARY ABI Annual Business Inquiry LLTI Limiting Long Term Illness BME Black & Minority Ethnic LSC Learning and Skills Council HPI Health Poverty Index LSI Leicester Shire Intelligence ID2004 Indices of Deprivation 2004 LSORA Leicester Shire Online Research Atlas IDAC Income Deprivation Affecting Children NEET Not in Employment, Education or Training IDAOP Income Deprivation Affecting Older People OA Output Area IMD Index of Multiple Deprivation ODPM Office of the Deputy Prime Minister JSA Job Seekers Allowance ONS Office for National Statistics KS2 Key Stage 2 PCT Primary Care Trust KS4 Key Stage 4 SIC Standard Industrial Classification LCC Leicestershire County Council SOA Super Output Area LDF Local Development Framework SOC Standard Occupation Classification LEA Local Education Authority

REFERENCES Office of the Deputy Prime Minister www.odpm.gov.uk Office for National Statistics www.statistics.gov.uk Office for National Statistics: Area Classification www.statistics.gov.uk/about/methodology_by_theme/area_classification

OTHER RELATED / USEFUL INFORMATION Census profiles (ward, parish and district) www.leics.gov.uk/statistics Economic information www.lsint.info Leicester Shire Online Research Atlas www.lsora.org Crime Audits (district level) www.leics.gov.uk/statistics Indices of Deprivation 2004 (district level) www.leics.gov.uk/statistics

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APPENDIX 1: LOCATION OF 2001 SUPER OUTPUT AREAS IN OADBY AND WIGSTON

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APPENDIX 2: 2001 WARDS IN OADBY AND WIGSTON

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