Appendix B

Summary Facts and figures about district

The District is home to nearly 96, 000 people (Mid 2014 estimates) living in 40,345 households.

Leics East Blaby England County Age 2014 2014 2014 2014 0-19 23.35% 23.00% 23.40% 23.76% 20 to 64 56.96% 57.53% 58.05% 58.68% 65 to 89 18.82% 18.56% 17.66% 16.69% 90 and over 0.87% 0.91% 0.86% 0.87% Male Female Source: Office for National Statistics website: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide- method/census/2011/index.html Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO

0.4% 6.1% 0.9% 1.6% Ethnicity

2.5% 11.5% of residents White British % are from minority All Other White % ethnic backgrounds (2011 All Mixed % census), this is All Asian % mainly in the All black % Asian/Asian British All Other % group (6.1%).

88.5% (Source: ONS http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/census/2011/index.html Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO)

% of people aged 16- 64 with long-term limiting disability or health problem

(2011 Census)

Leicestershire East Measure Blaby (Exc Leic City) Midlands England

Total % 15.8 16.2 18.6 17.6

Source: ONS: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/census/2011/index.html Appendix B

Life Expectancy 86

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74 (Exc Leic City) Blaby England Male 80.7 79.7 77.8 79.4 Female 84.6 83.4 81.8 83.1

Source: www.healthprofiles.info local profiles 2011-2013 Carers

11% of local people provide 1 hour or more a week of unpaid care for others. The average for England is 10.2%.

Carer Population Provides unpaid care: Total

Age Number % All categories: Age 93915 10552 11% Age 0 to 15 17581 176 1% Age 16 to 24 9641 443 5% Age 25 to 34 10139 629 6% Age 35 to 49 21184 2742 13% Age 50 to 64 18495 4066 22% Age 65 and over 16875 2496 15% Source: ONS Crown Copyright Reserved [from Nomis on 14 June 2016]

Deprivation

Blaby district has low levels of deprivation. Its is the 2nd least deprived district in Leicestershire.

Blaby is the ranked 288 least deprived district in England (where 354 is the least deprived and 1 is the most deprived). This a move from rank 326 in 2007, meaning there is more deprivation in the district.

 About 9.1% (1,500) children in the district live in poverty.  http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/statistics/indices2014

Appendix B

Lone Parent Households

In Blaby there are 2,324 lone parent households with dependent children. This is 6% of all households in the district, this is lower than the England figure of 7.1%, but higher than the average for Leicestershire of 5.6%.  Of these 34% are in full time employment, 42% in part time employment and 24% are not in employment.

Unemployment April 2016 (JSA claimants)

Leicester Leicestershire East Measure Blaby UK City County Midlands

Unemployment % 0.7% 1.8% 0.7% 1.3% 1.5% https://public.tableau.com/profile/r.i.team.leicestershire.county.council#!/vizhome/UnemploymentBullet in/HeadlineData

Blaby unemployment over time (JSA Claimants)

18-24 Year olds JSA claimants Over time

Appendix B

JSA Claiments Aged 55 to 64 years 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0

Aged 55+

Blaby District Population aged 55 to 64: 11,535 (20.3% of working age population (18-64))

Appendix B

Staff Data – Blaby District Council

57% 43% Blaby 2016 Age % 18-20 0.96% 21-30 11.86% 31-40 21.47% 41-50 32.37% 51-60 26.60%

61-64 5.45% 65+ 1.28%

0.3% Staff Ethnicity 11.5% of staff are 0.6% 3.8% from minority ethnic 1.6% 4.2% backgrounds this is mainly in the White British Asian/Asian British 5.1% All Other White group (3.8%). 4.2% of staff have stated All Mixed that they ‘Prefer not All Asian to say’ what their All Black ethnic origin is. All Other Prefer not to say 84.3%

Staff Disability 90.0% 77.0% 80.0% 70.0% 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 19.5% 20.0% 10.0% 3.5% 0.0% Disabled Not Disabled Prefer not to say

Appendix B

Recruitment Gender Female 56.7% Male 38.4% Not known 4.9% Disability No 87.6% Yes 0.6% Not known/blank 11.9% Ethnicity White British/Irish 69.4% Other ethnic origin 23.3% Prefer not specify/blank 6.9%