East by Numbers

A Statistical Profile of

2. Deprivation and Inequalities

December 2016

Deprivation & Inequality

Table of Contents Introduction & Summary ...... 1 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation...... 2

Deprivation by multimember ward ...... 4 Crisis Grants ...... 8 Child Poverty ...... 8 Money Matters ...... 10 Fuel Poverty ...... 11 Sources ...... 12

Deprivation & Inequality 1 Deprivation & Inequality The principal measure of deprivation in is the Scottish Index of Summary: Multiple Deprivation. The Index consists of measures of income, employment, • East Lothian is made up of 132 data zones, 6 of which fall within the education, health, housing, crime and geographic access to services. The most deprived 20% of areas in the whole of Scotland. Index identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of • Scotland in a consistent way. The 6 most deprived data zones are located in , and Elphinstone. East Lothian has lower levels of deprivation than most local authorities in • Scotland. However there are small areas of Prestonpans, Tranent and The most deprived datazone in East Lothian is located in Tranent. Elphinstone that fall within the most deprived 20% of areas in Scotland. • Higher levels of deprivation are concentrated in the western part of The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation is not the only measure of East Lothian (around , , Tranent and deprivation. Child Poverty measured by the campaign group End Child Prestonpans), although there are also pockets of deprivation in Poverty showed that 18.6% of children in East Lothian were living in poverty Haddington and . in 2013 after housing costs. An average of 20.6% of children were living in • 12.6% of children were identified as living in poverty. This rose to poverty after housing costs across Scotland’s 32 local authorities. 20.3% when housing costs were included. These figures were below both the Scottish average and neighbouring Council area figures. • The number of Crisis Grant applications increased across 2015 and into 2016 before decreasing in the first quarter of 2016/17. • 89% of East Lothian residents think that their household is managing quite well or getting by alright financially. • Only 1% of residents identified themselves as being in deep financial trouble. • 59% think that it would be no problem for their household to find £250 to meet a sudden expense. This figure drops to 43% if they had to find £500 instead. • 7% of East Lothian households are in extreme fuel poverty compared to 10% in Scotland.

Deprivation & Inequality 2 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) However, the SIMD ranking provides a snapshot comparison of deprivation levels and inequality across the Council and the seven wards. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2016 identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across Scotland . This is done by Comparisons of SIMD rankings between years are limited in value as the combining data from seven distinct domains or topic areas which are difference in the rankings can be caused by changes elsewhere rather than by considered to be important contributors to deprivation levels: improvement or worsening of conditions/ indicators in a datazone. Historical comparisons are not possible as the boundaries and overall number of data • Current Income (weighting: 28%). zones increased. • Employment (28%). • Health (14%). Table 2.1 shows the change in population in each quintile for East Lothian. • Education, Skills and Training (14%). Less people now reside in the lowest quintile and more in the highest when • Geographic Access to Services (9%). compared to 2012. • Crime (5%). Table 2.1: Change in population by deprivation quintile (SIMD 2012; SIMD 2016). • Housing (2%).

There are a total of 38 indicators across these seven domains. Each domain is ranked but then an overall SIMD ranking is produced using a weighting of all Population by Deprivation Quintile (2012 & 2016) seven domains with higher weighting given to the income and employment 2012 2016 domains (see above). 32.0% The overall SIMD ranking is a relative measure of deprivation that ranks 6,976 27.7% 26.1% 25.6% data zones across Scotland and compares them. SIMD 16 was calculated 22.4% using the 2011 Datazone boundaries, there are now 132 data zones in East 19.9% 20.2% 17.7% Lothian as opposed to only 120 in 2012. The rankings run from 1 being the most deprived to 6,976 being the least

deprived. Therefore, the lower the rank, the more deprived according to the 4.9% 3.7% SIMD categorisation. As the SIMD ranking is a relative measure, it does not show how much more deprived one datazone is than another, e.g. a datazone 1st Quintile (Most 2nd Quintile 3rd Quintile 4th Quintile 5th Quintile ranked 20 is not necessarily twice as deprived as a datazone ranked 40. In the Deprived) same way, the distance between each rank can vary - so the gap between the data zones ranked 16 and 17 could be very small while the gap between those ranked 17 and 18 could be much bigger. Deprivation & Inequality 3 Table 2.2 provides a comparison between the most and least deprived areas Table 2.3: Most deprived data zones in East Lothian for each SIMD Domain and domain of East Lothian in relation to a number of key indicators of poverty. rank (SIMD 2016). In SIMD 16 the difference between the most and least employment deprived data zones is 20% compared to 26% in 2012; and the SIMD Datazone SIMD Domain difference in the crime rate fell from 1560 in 2012 to 813. Domain Code Datazone Neighbourhood Ward Rank Tranent-High St / Northfield / Income S01008221 Lindores Dr Fa'side 403 Employm Tranent-High St / Northfield / Table 2.2: Comparative inequalities (SIMD 2016). ent S01008221 Lindores Dr Fa'side 833 SIMD 2016 SIMD 2012 Preston Cockenzie Port Seton-Links Rd / Seton 20% lowest 20% highest 20% lowest 20% highest Health S01008214 Golf Dr Gosford 1240 range range range range Preston Prestonpans-Inchview North / Seton Jan-26 107-132 Jan-24 97-120 Education S01008200 Terr Gosford 454 Income SIMD 31% - 15% 4% - 1% 35% - 18% 4% - 1% Musselburgh-New St / North Musselburg Housing S01008182 High St / Prommenade h West 373 Employment SIMD 21% - 13% 4% - 1% 27% - 17% 5% - 1% Haddington & SIMD crimes per 813 - 322 82 – 33 1560 - 563 128 - 0 Gifford North / Bolton / Garvald Lammermu 10,000 pop Access S01008249 / Whiteadder ir 184 Preston Attendance 63% - 77% 91% - 98% n/a n/a Prestonpans-High St East / Seton Crime S01008203 Robertson Av Gosford 432 Tranent-High St / Northfield / Attainment 4.5% - 5.1% 6.0% - 6.6% n/a n/a Overall S01008221 Lindores Dr Fa'side 788

Table 2.3 shows which datazone is the most deprived in East Lothian for each of the seven domains used in the SIMD. Datazone S01008221 (Tranent – High St. / Northfield) is the most deprived datazone in East Lothian with an overall SIMD rank of 788. This places it within the 15% most deprived data zones in Scotland.

Deprivation & Inequality 4 Figure 2.1 shows the percentage of the population living in each deprivation Deprivation by Ward quintile in East Lothian and Scotland. East Lothian has a much greater Table 2.4 shows the distribution of deprivation within each of the Wards in concentration of the population being in the least deprived quintiles of East Lothian. Musselburgh East & Carberry, Fa’side and Preston Seton deprivation when compared to Scotland. 3.7% of people in East Lothian live in Gosford account for 25 out of 26 of the 20% most deprived data zones in East the most deprived twenty percent of data zones compared to 19.6% for Lo