Asheridge Vale and Lowndes

This ward profile aims to provide an overview of information about the Asheridge Vale and Lowndes ward. The majority of this information is at ward level, except for a few statistics which are only available at parish or district level.

Quick Statistics (please refer to relevant section for more details):

Total population (approx.) 4,967 Economically active 72.4% Area (hectares) 186 Average household size 2.6 Unemployment 4.3% Population density 26.7

Total households 1,919 Disability claimants 2.9% Total dwellings 1,979 1 Population (Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0)

Age structure Source: Mid year population estimates 2013 ward & district level

In 2013 the population of Asheridge Vale and Lowndes ward was 4,967.The age breakdown of the ward’s population is shown in the table below.

Total 0-4 5-14 15-19 20-44 45-64 65+

Asheridge Vale and Lowndes 4,967 347 670 294 1,438 1,348 870 Asheridge Vale and Lowndes (%) 100% 7.0% 13.5% 5.9% 29.0% 27.1% 17.5%

Chiltern 93,250 5.80% 13.30% 6.00% 25.30% 28.70% 20.90% & Wales - 6.30% 11.40% 6.10% 33.50% 25.30% 17.40%

Working-age population as a percentage of total population (18 to 65)

64.0% Working-age Population 62.5% Source: Mid year population estimates 2013 ward & district 62.0% level 60.0% 59.2% Working-age refers to all individuals who are aged 58.0% 57.3% between 18 and 65 years old. The working-age population of Asheridge Vale and Lowndes was 56.0% above the district average and 3.3% below the national average. 54.0% Asheridge Vale Chiltern England and and Lowndes Wales

Ethnicity Source: 2011 Census - Table KS201EW (Nomis Website) The largest ethnic group for this ward was Asian 1.4% 0.4% with 649 people, of this: Asheridge Vale and Lowndes  523 people were Pakistani 13.4% White 2.7%  55 people were Indian Mixed/multiple ethnic  35 people were Other Asian groups Asian/Asian British  20 people were Bangladeshi  16 people were Chinese Black/African/Caribbean/ Black British 82.1% Other ethnic group

South England Religion stated as: Ward Chiltern Religion Source: Table : KS209EW East and Wales Christian 55.6% 63.2% 59.8% 59.3% Based on information from the 2011 Buddhist 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% Census 55.6% of the population of Asheridge Vale and Lowndes stated Hindu 0.7% 1.3% 1.1% 1.5% their religion as Christian. Jewish 0.2% 0.6% 0.2% 0.5%

11.8% stated their religion as Muslim; Muslim 11.8% 2.5% 2.3% 4.8% this was higher than the district and Sikh 0.4% 0.5% 0.6% 0.8% national average. A further 23.9% Other religion 0.5% 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% stated that they had no religion. No religion 23.9% 23.5% 27.7% 25.1% Religion not stated 6.5% 7.6% 7.4% 7.2% 2 Household Composition Source: Table : KS105EW, 2011

Single non -pensionable households made up 14.4% of the households in Asheridge Vale and Lowndes, 3% higher than the district average. Lone parent households with dependent children accounted for 3.2% of households in the ward. Household Composition Asheridge Vale Asheridge Vale Chiltern Difference and Lowndes and Lowndes District (Number) (%) average (%) Single non-pensionable households 285 14.4% 11.4% 3.00% Single pensioner 262 13.3% 13.5% -0.20% All other pensioner households 219 11.1% 11.9% -0.80% Married couple households: No children 291 14.7% 14.1% 0.60% Married couple households: With children 533 27.0% 29.3% -2.30% Cohabiting couple households: No children 104 5.3% 3.8% 1.50% Cohabiting couple households: With children 61 3.1% 3.6% -0.50% Lone parent households: With dependent children 64 3.2% 4.4% -1.20% Lone parent households: All children 54 2.7% 2.9% -0.20% non-dependent Other households: With dependent children 28 1.4% 1.7% -0.30% Other households: Other 74 3.7% 3.4% 0.30%

Acorn Data Source: Acorn Data 2013, produced by CACI.

Acorn Data provides useful data about the characteristics of people based on the postcode in which they live. Using data from a range of sources, every postcode is classified into one of five categories. This data provides useful information to start to understand the feelings, behaviours and expectations of each group. N.B All category names are already defined on the database.

The graph above shows that 28.5% of households within Asheridge Vale and Lowndes fell within the Financially Stretched or Urban Adversity categories, 16.7% higher than the district average.

37.3% of the households within Asheridge Vale and Lowndes fell within the Affluent Achievers category; 32% lower than the district average.

3 Population Projection Source: 2013-based sub national population projections, Office for National Statistics

Population forecasts are only available at district level and take no account of the planning strategies and policies or that Chiltern is 80% Green Belt with the consequent restrictions on dwelling numbers. Overall, the population is forecast to 102000 increase by 9.1% for Chiltern. Around Chiltern Forecast ONS 101000 8% is movement into the area from 2012 to 2037. within the UK, the other 1.1% is 100000 largely due to more births than 99000 deaths. 98000 The largest increase is in the 65+ age 97000 group, forecast to increase by 51.9% 96000 (9,800), against 65% for all of England. 95000 94000 The largest percentage increase by group is the 85+ age group across 93000 Chiltern and England, with the 92000 numbers of over 90 year olds in the 2012 2017 2022 2026 2030 2034 2037 district expected to more than double to 3,300.

Age Group 2012 2022 2030 2037 % change 0-19 23,300 24,200 24,400 24,300 4.29% 20-64 50,800 49,100 48,600 48,400 -4.72% 65+ 18,900 22,400 25,900 28,700 51.85% Total Population 93,000 95,900 99,000 101,500 9.14%

Community (Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0)

Health (Source: 2011 Census) 0.97% 3.32% Asheridge Vale and Lowndes General Health Source: Table: QS302EW

Nearly 85% of people within Asheridge Very good health Vale and Lowndes declared 11.07% themselves as having very good or Good health good health; slightly below the district Average of 86.6%. Fair health 4.3% of people in Asheridge Vale and 50.95% Lowndes declared themselves as having bad or very bad health in the 33.69% Bad health ward. This was above the district average of 3.2%. Very bad health

Provision of Unpaid Care Source: Table: QS301EW

11% of the population within Asheridge Vale and Lowndes provided some form of unpaid care. This equates to 536 people. The split is as follows:

 400 people provided 1-19 hours unpaid care a week  49 people provided 20-49 hours unpaid care a week  87 people provided 50 or more hours unpaid care a week

4 Housing (Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0. ) Housing Tenure Source: Table: KS402EW

Household Tenure Asheridge Chiltern England Vale and and Lowndes Wales

Owned: Outright or with a mortgage or loan 69.1% 76.9% 63.6% Shared Ownership: Part owned and part rented 0.9% 0.7% 0.8%

Social Rented: council/housing association/registered 23.7% 12.4% 17.6% social landlord Private Rented: Private landlord or letting agency 5.7% 9.0% 16.7%

Living rent free 0.6% 1.0% 1.4%

Asheridge Vale and Lowndes had a high percentage of social rented housing within the ward; 11.3% above the national average. 69.1% of housing within the ward was owned outright or with a mortgage or loan.

Accommodation Type Source: Table: KS402EW

0.52% 0.00% Asheridge Vale and Lowndes 1.20% 0.26%

Detached house/ bungalow

Semi-detached house/ 16.05% bungalow

27.72% Terraced house/ bungalow

Flat/ maisonette: Purpose- built block of flats or tenement Flat/ maisonette: Part of a converted or shared house 22.25% Flat/ maisonette: In commercial building Caravan or other mobile or temporary structure 32.00% Shared dwelling

27.7% of accommodation within Asheridge Vale and Lowndes ward were detached houses or bungalows, against 44% for the district and 22.7% nationally.

Council Tax Banding Source: Valuation list for the authority on 17 February 2015

Council Tax information can provide an overview of house value within an area, however whilst they provide an overview it should be noted that these bandings were created several years ago. This information is only available at a parish level rather than by ward. The percentage of houses falling in the G - H bands for parish is 22.2% lower than the district average.

Parish Dwelling Count Bands A-C Bands D-F Bands G-H Chesham 9,225 47.1% 47.3% 5.6% 38,898 21.1% 51.0% 27.8%

5 Crime Source: Crime Summary for Chiltern District as at 31st March 2011

Information on crime levels is produced at the police neighbourhood level rather than by ward. The information is based on year-to-date crime summaries produced by Thames Valley Police for the district.

Number of offences Chesham Chiltern

Crime type 2012/13 2013/14 % change 2012/13 2013/14 % change

All crime 1,436 1,152 -20% 3,534 3,232 -9%

Burglary (dwelling) 116 105 -9% 298 254 -15%

Vehicle Crime: theft of/ 150 121 -19% 431 412 -4% from/ interference

Violence against a person 253 171 -32% 540 422 -22%

Asheridge Vale and Lowndes falls within the Chesham neighbourhood level. When comparing 2013/14 to the previous year, there was a 32% reduction in violence against a person, a 19% reduction in vehicle crime and a 9% reduction in burglary (dwelling). Overall, crime fell by 20%.

Crime statistics for the District are produced by Thames Valley Police monthly and should be used for up to date trend information. There are some differences between the neighbourhood police area figures and the overall Chiltern figures due to different timelines in producing the report and crimes that are reclassified over the reporting period.

Deprivation Source: Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010, CLG.

The Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010 (IMD 2010) is a measure of deprivation at the small area level - Lower Super Output Area (LSOA). England is split into 32,482 LSOAs, LSOAs have a minimum population of 1000, and overall average population of 1500, and were ranked to create the IMD. All of the LSOAs in England are ranked. The LSOA ranked one by the IMD 2010 is the most deprived and the LSOA ranked 32,482 is the least deprived. Chiltern district contains 57 LSOAs.

The IMD model is based on seven distinct dimensions of deprivation which are then given a weighting to work out an overall ranking for deprivation as the table below shows.

Domain Weighting

Income Deprivation (eg income related benefits) 22.5%

Employment Deprivation (eg job related benefit claimants) 22.5% Health Deprivation & Disability (eg poor health, disability, mortality rates) 13.5%

Education, Skills & Training Deprivation (eg educational attainment, and work skills) 13.5% Barriers to Housing and Service (eg affordability and distance to services) 9.3%

Crime & Disorder (eg burglary, theft, criminal damage and violence) 9.3%

Living Environment Deprivation (eg housing quality, air quality and road traffic 9.3% accidents)

Note: IMD 2010 is based on 2008 data.

6 Domain LSOA IMD Rank (England) Rank in District, 1= most deprived, 1 = most deprived,

E01017747 23,822 15

Overall IMD Rank E01017748 13,351 3 E01017749 31,014 40

Asheridge Vale and Lowndes is made up of three LSOAs.

Within the district 27 LSOAs fell within the 10% least deprived overall IMD rankings. These are shown in white in the map on the right. One of three LSOAs in Asheridge Vale and Lowndes fell within this category. Another of the LSOAs within Asheridge Vale and Lowndes was the third most deprived within the district.

The ranking for the overall IMD shows that two LSOAs in Chiltern fell within the most 31% - 40% deprived areas in England (shown in red on the map) and a further five fell within the most 41% to 50% deprived areas in England (shown in pink on the map). None fell within the 30% most deprived areas.

The main factors influencing deprivation within Chiltern were Barriers to Housing and Services and Crime. Barriers to Housing and Services reflects the high cost of housing and the rural aspect of the district with 80% of land being Green Belt.

Economy (Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0)

Economic Activity Table: KS601EW & KS603EW Asheridge Vale England and Chiltern and Lowndes Wales 72.4% of the working-age population within the ward were economically active, this was above Economically active (% of working-age population) district level and 2.7% higher than the national All People 72.4% 71.9% 69.7% average. Males 79.2% 78.7% 74.9% The female and male breakdown shows that Females 65.4% 65.3% 64.5% 65.4% of the female working-age Unemployed (% of economically active) population were economically active within

Asheridge Vale and Lowndes. All People 3.7% 6.3% 4.3%

7 Education Table: QS501EW

33.9% of people aged 17 to 74 had higher level qualifications within Asheridge Vale and Lowndes, below the district average. 18.7% had no qualifications, 4% higher than the district average.

Asheridge Vale Asheridge Vale Chiltern England and

and Lowndes and Lowndes (%) Wales (%) (numbers) (%)

1 No qualifications or level unknown 712 18.7% 14.7% 22.7% Lower level qualifications 2 1639 43.0% 40.1% 44.5%

3 Higher level qualifications 1293 33.9% 41.0% 27.2% Other qualifications 170 4.5% 4.2% 5.7%

1 People without any academic, vocational or professional qualification 2 Qualifications equivalent to Level 1 to 3 of the National Key Learning Targets (i.e. GCSE’s, O-Levels, A-Levels, NVQ Level 1-3) 3 Qualifications of Level 4 & above (i.e. first/higher degrees, NVQ Level 4 & 5, HND, HNC & other professional qualifications)

Employment by Occupation Table: KS608EW to KS610EW

For the population of Asheridge Vale and Lowndes the top three occupation groups were:

 Professional occupations make up 20.3% (Chiltern average 23.09%)  Associate professional and technical occupations make up 15.4% (Chiltern average 15.76%)  Managers, directors and senior officials make up 13.9% (Chiltern average 17.43%)

These three occupation groups contribute 49.6% of occupations for the ward.

Hours worked Table: KS604EW Asheridge Vale England Chiltern and Lowndes and Wales The table opposite shows that 69.1% of the people Hours worked - for all people in employment in employment within the ward worked full-time Full-time 69.1% 70.1% 71.0% hours and 30.9% worked part-time hours. Part-time 30.9% 29.9% 29.1%

Looking at the split by gender, 84.9% of males worked full-time and 49.6% of females worked full-time.

Migrant Workers Source: DWP 2013, Local Area Migration Indicators table from Office of National Statistics

National Insurance numbers issued to foreign nationals in Chiltern

700 592 600 516 478 500 446 400 382 384 400 347 370 294 300 200 100 0 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20 11 2012 2013

Overseas nationals obtain a National Insurance (NI) Number before they enter into employment or upon starting work, so registrations data can be a good indication of new arrivals who are economically active. These figures are only available at district level and do not go down to ward level.

8 Benefit Claimants (Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0)

Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) Claimants Source: ONS claimant count with rates and proportions, Nomisweb (Jan-15)

1.2% of the working-age population within the ward claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance. This was higher than the Chiltern average of 0.7%.

Disability Living Allowance Claimants Source: Benefit Claimants—Disability Living Allowance for Small Areas, Nomis (February 2015)

Disability Living Allowance is payable to people who are disabled and who have personal care needs, mobility needs or both. It consists of two components, the care component for people who need help with personal care and the mobility component for people who need help with getting around.

2.9% of people in the ward claimed Disability Living Allowance in February 2015, against 1.5% across the whole district.

Travel to Work (Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence)

Distance of travel to Work Source: ONS claimant count with rates and proportions, Nomisweb (January 2015)

The table below shows the distance travelled to work for all people aged 16 to 74 who were in employment based on information collected in the 2011 Census.

Asheridge Vale Chiltern & Wales and Lowndes Less than 2km 19.6% 11.1% 16.6% 16.6% 2km to less than 5km 7.8% 8.6% 16.2% 18.3% 5km to less than 10km 10.0% 12.6% 14.2% 17.3% 10km to less than 20km 17.3% 15.9% 13.7% 15.3% 20km to less than 30km 8.1% 8.1% 7.1% 5.8% 30km to less than 40km 6.7% 10.8% 3.7% 2.6% 40km to less than 60km 8.2% 6.0% 4.0% 2.3% 60km and over 0.7% 1.4% 4.0% 3.1% Work mainly at or from home 11.9% 16.1% 11.8% 10.3% Other 9.7% 9.4% 8.9% 8.4%

Method of travel to Work Table: QS701EW: Adapted from data from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0

The table below shows the method of travel to work for the usual resident population aged 16 to 74 who were in work based on information collected in the 2011 Census.

Asheridge Vale Chiltern South East England & Wales and Lowndes Work mainly at or from home 6.8% 10.3% 6.6% 5.4% Underground, metro, light rail, tram 7.7% 6.3% 0.4% 3.9% Train 3.8% 7.7% 7.3% 5.2% Bus, minibus or coach 1.9% 1.4% 4.5% 7.3% Taxi 0.6% 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% Motorcycle, scooter or moped 0.6% 0.6% 0.9% 0.8% Driving a car or van 61.9% 60.8% 60.8% 57.5% Passenger in a car or van 4.8% 3.7% 4.7% 5.1% Bicycle 0.7% 0.9% 3.0% 2.9% On foot 10.2% 7.2% 10.9% 10.7% Other method of travel to work 0.9% 0.7% 0.7% 0.6%

9 Environment (Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0)

Land Use Statistics Source: Generalised Land Use Database Statistics 2005, Communities and Local Government (last updated Jan-07) The following data is taken from experimental statistics from January 2005 from the generalised land use database. The total area of all land types for Asheridge Vale and Lowndes is 186 hectares which makes up 0.9 % of the land in the district. The main type of land use was greenspace which made up 43.6% of the land use for the ward. Communities and Local Government consider the 2005 figures to be the definitive land use statistics. No further work is planned on the Generalised Land Use Database.

% of Ward area that land % of Chiltern District that Type of land use Hectares use type makes up land use type makes up

Area of domestic buildings 12.1 6.5% 1.7% Area of non domestic buildings 4.9 2.7% 0.5%

Area of road 13.7 7.4% 2.6% Area of path 0.6 0.3% 0.1%

Area of rail 0.0 0.0% 0.1%

Area of domestic gardens 65.9 35.7% 9.8% Area of greenspace 80.6 43.6% 83.9%

Area of water 0.0 0.0% 0.3% Area of other land uses 7.0 3.8% 1.1%

Area of unclassified land 0.0 0.0% 0.0%

Density Table: KS101EW Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0.

Asheridge Vale and Lowndes ward has an area of 186 hectares and a population of 4,967 residents, giving a density of 26.7 people per hectare, higher than the district average of 4.7 people per hectare.

Car and Van Ownership Table: KS404EW Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0.

The table below shows that in 2011 that 17.2% of households in Asheridge Vale and Lowndes did not own a car or van, considerably higher than the average for the district.

Asheridge Vale and Chiltern South East England & Wales Lowndes

No car or van 17.2% 10.9% 18.6% 25.6% 1 car or van 38.1% 36.2% 41.7% 42.2% 2 cars or vans 34.9% 38.5% 29.8% 24.7% 3 or more cars or vans 9.8% 14.5% 9.9% 7.4%

When using this ward profile please note that information is taken from a variety of sources and Chiltern District Council can not vouch for its accuracy & reliability. Many statistics (including all tables quoted) come from the 2011 Census so this should be taken into account when utilising these figures.

Some of the data contained in this profile is protected by various copyrights and cannot be re-used elsewhere without permission of the relevant copyright holder (please refer to source data for more information).

Produced by Policy & Performance, Chiltern District Council — March 2015

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