UPPER GIPPING ELECTORAL DIVISION PROFILE 2021 This Division comprises part of Haughley, Stowupland & Wetherden, Mendlesham, Bacton, Palgrave, Eye, Gislingham and Stonham Wards

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CONTENTS

▪ Demographic Profile: Age & Ethnicity ▪ Economy and Labour Market ▪ Schools & NEET ▪ Index of Multiple Deprivation ▪ Health ▪ Crime & Community Safety ▪ Additional Information ▪ Data Sources

3 ELECTORAL DIVISION PROFILES: AN INTRODUCTION

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4 DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE - AGE In mid 2019, the population of Upper Gipping stood at 9,781, an increase of 4% since the 2011 Census. The age structure of the component wards and the division as a whole is set out below.

Haughley, Upper Stowupland Gipping Mendlesham Bacton Eye Palgrave Gislingham Stonham & Division Wetherden All Ages 9,781 3,508 2,960 1,838 498 453 322 202 0-4 386 147 138 61 10 13 10 7 5-9 487 195 145 80 15 20 24 8 10-14 578 198 176 105 33 42 13 11 15-19 511 175 158 87 26 33 13 19 20-24 365 128 113 59 18 21 15 11 25-29 372 137 113 69 21 22 5 5 30-34 478 201 128 87 27 18 12 5 35-39 485 181 156 82 23 17 22 <5 40-44 467 179 154 80 14 19 11 10 45-49 658 217 195 128 49 29 23 17 50-54 795 278 241 134 54 44 22 22 55-59 821 276 216 183 36 51 35 24 60-64 788 264 246 155 46 21 33 23 65-69 725 242 227 144 39 34 27 12 70-74 757 263 265 135 38 22 22 12 75-79 517 196 138 116 28 22 <20 <5 80-84 306 118 66 77 12 18 <20 <5 85-89 197 78 65 39 <5 <5 <5 <5 90+ 88 35 20 17 <10 <5 <5 <5

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England - females England - males Upper Gipping - females Upper Gipping - males

5 ▪ The age pyramid for Upper Gipping shows a higher-than-average proportion of people over the age of 50. The division has a relatively elderly age profile. ▪ The most common age group in Upper Gipping is 55-59, followed by 50-54. ▪ There is a much lower than average number of adults aged 20-44, and of children under 10 years of age.

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▪ According to the latest data (2011 Census), 98.8% (9,295) of the population of Upper Gipping are white, slightly higher than in Mid Suffolk and higher than the county as a whole. ▪ 1.2% of the division’s population are of minority ethnic origin, a quarter of the figure for the county overall. ▪ Upper Gipping has a similar diversity profile to Mid Suffolk, and generally lower proportions of minority ethnic groups than Suffolk as a whole.

Total Asian and Black and Other All minority White White British Mixed Asian Black Ethnic people ethnic British British Group population

Count Count % Count % Count % Count % Count % Count % Count % Upper Gipping 9,404 9,295 98.8 9,159 97.4 61 0.6 37 0.4 11 0.1 0 0.0 109 1.2 Mid Suffolk 96,731 94,667 97.9 92,747 95.9 953 1.0 647 0.7 371 0.4 93 0.1 2,064 2.1 Suffolk 728,163 693,195 95.2 661,458 90.8 12,472 1.7 13,131 1.8 6,854 0.9 2,511 0.3 34,968 4.8 England 85.4 79.8 2.3 7.8 3.5 1.0 14.6

6 ECONOMY

There are 2,600 people employed in Upper Gipping.

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▪ The key employment sectors in Upper Gipping are professional, scientific and technical activities, transport and storage, wholesale, retail and motor trades and manufacturing. ▪ The professional, scientific and technical activities sector accounts for more than 1 in 5 jobs in the division, a far higher proportion than seen elsewhere. The specific sub-sector in which a significant proportion of the employment lies is “technical testing and analysis”. ▪ The four sectors highlighted above provide almost 60% of jobs in the division.

7 LABOUR MARKET

OUT-OF-WORK BENEFIT CLAIMANT RATE

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▪ Upper Gipping saw a sharp increase in claimants of out-of-work benefits in the first half of 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, much like the rest of the county and England as a whole. ▪ Claimant unemployment levels in the division are very similar to the Mid Suffolk average and below the county and England level. ▪ In percentage terms, approximately 3.2% of the working age population of Upper Gipping are claiming out-of-work benefits in January 2021.

8 SCHOOLS

SCHOOL INFORMATION

Schools in the Division

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KS2 (age KS2 11) (age KS4 16) (age KS5 18) Name Phase (age Stage 5) Requires Bacton Primary School Primary AC 24 21 0 0 08/05/2019 improvement* Crawford's CofE Primary AC 11 12 0 0 Good* 15/10/2015 Primary School Mendlesham Primary Primary AC 15 14 0 0 Good* 07/12/2012 School Occold Primary School Primary AC 7 9 0 0 Good* 30/09/2011 Old Newton CofE Primary AC 14 8 0 0 Good* 09/12/2011 Primary School Thorndon CEVCP Requires Primary LA 9 11 0 0 19/06/2019 School improvement Wetheringsett CEVCP Primary AC 4 12 0 0 Good 11/06/2019 School

Schools with catchments that overlap with the Division

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KS2 (age KS2 11) (age KS4 16) (age KS5 18) Name Phase (age Stage 5) Chilton Community Primary AC 19 27 0 0 Good* 13/12/2017 Primary School St Peter & St Paul CofE Primary AC 22 26 0 0 Good* 07/06/2013 Primary School, Eye Stonham Aspal CEVAP Primary LA 27 28 0 0 Good 16/01/2013 School Debenham High School Secondary AC 0 0 134 0 Outstanding* 22/01/2008 Hartismere School Secondary AC 0 0 144 98 Outstanding 26/11/2014 Requires Stowmarket High School Secondary AS 0 0 145 69 05/07/2018 improvement* Requires Stowupland High School Secondary AC 0 0 166 61 13/03/2019 improvement*

Academy Status key: AS = Academy Sponsored, AC = Academy Converter, LA = LA Maintained, F = Free *The latest full inspection judgement does not relate to the current school

9 SCHOOL ATTAINMENT

Foundation Stage Profile (reception) % pupils achieving Good Level of Development

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Bacton Primary School Crawford's CofE Primary School Mendlesham Primary School Occold Primary School Old Newton CofE Primary School Thorndon CEVCP School Wetheringsett CEVCP School Suffolk National

▪ Foundation Stage attainment at schools in Upper Gipping has been quite variable over the course of the last three years of available data. ▪ Only Thorndon CEVCP School has seen consistently above average attainment during this time. The percentage of pupils achieving a Good Level of Development at Foundation Stage has also improved year on year at the school. ▪ No school in the division has seen consistently below average attainment. ▪ Pupil attainment at Bacton and Occold Primary Schools has been stable at or above the county benchmark. ▪ Attainment at Old Newton and Crawford’s Church of England Primary Schools was high in 2017 but the lowest in the division in 2018 and 2019. ▪ Mendlesham Primary and Wetheringsett CEVCP Schools saw the opposite trend, with slightly below average pupil attainment at Foundation Stage in 2017 and 2019, either side of strong performance in 2018.

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Bacton Primary School Crawford's CofE Primary School Mendlesham Primary School Occold Primary School Old Newton CofE Primary School Thorndon CEVCP School Wetheringsett CEVCP School Suffolk National

▪ Key Stage 2 attainment at schools in Upper Gipping has been very variable over the course of the last three years of available data. ▪ Mendlesham Primary School has seen consistently high levels of pupil attainment at KS2, with a greater percentage of pupils at the school achieving the expected level or better in reading, writing and mathematics than the county or national average. ▪ Pupil attainment at Occold Primary School has also been above average for two of the last three years of data. ▪ Old Newton Church of England Primary school bettered the county average in 2017 and 2019. ▪ Two other schools; Bacton Primary and Wetheringsett CEVCP, had particularly high attainment in one of the three years but below average results in the other two. ▪ KS2 pupil attainment at Crawford’s Church of England Primary and Thorndon CEVCP Schools was below average throughout this period.

Key Stage 4 (GCSE) (age 16) and Key Stage 5 (A Level) (age 18) There are no Upper Schools located within the division.

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▪ In January 2021, 2.5% of 16–18-year-olds in Upper Gipping were classified as NEET (where current activity is known). ▪ NEET levels in the division tend to be similar to the Mid Suffolk average and below the county level, but have undergone significant fluctuations.

12 INDEX OF MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION (IMD) 2019 (SEE MAP OVERLEAF)

The IMD combines a number of indicators, chosen to cover a range of economic, social and housing issues, into a single deprivation score for each small area in England. This allows each area to be ranked relative to one another according to their level of deprivation. Small areas (Lower Super Output Areas, average population 1,700) are most commonly described as being in 1 of 5 quintile bands. The bottom quintile represents the 20% of areas that are the most deprived in England; these are shaded pale yellow on the map. The top quintile represents the least deprived areas in England and is shaded dark blue. The Index is widely used to analyse patterns of deprivation, identify areas that would benefit from special initiatives or programmes and as a tool to determine eligibility for specific funding streams.

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▪ The IMD 2019 shows that relative deprivation levels in Upper Gipping are moderate to low, with no parts of the division classified in the most deprived 40% of areas in England. ▪ Of the six Lower Super Output Areas comprising the division, three are ranked in the mid 20% of deprived areas in England (home to just over 60% of the population of the division as shown in the chart above), and the remaining three LSOAs are in the next least deprived quintile.

13 14 HEALTH

The local data used here is based on relatively small numbers. The confidence limits provide an indication of the reliability of the data. The 95% confidence intervals utilised on the chart provide a range within which there is 95% chance of the true result lying.

LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH 92 90 88 86 84 82 80 78 76 74 Upper Gipping Mid Suffolk Suffolk England

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▪ Estimated life expectancy at birth for both males and females in Upper Gipping is above the Mid Suffolk, Suffolk and England averages. ▪ The estimated figure for male life expectancy in the division is 82.5 years (80.9 across Suffolk), while for females it is almost 4 years longer, at 86.4 years (84.3 is the Suffolk average).

DEATHS, UNDER 75 YEARS, STANDARDISED MORTALITY RATIO 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Deaths from all causes, Deaths from all cancers, Deaths from circulatory Deaths from causes under 75 years under 75 years disease, under 75 years considered preventable (all ages)

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▪ The estimated rate of deaths from all causes and circulatory disease under 75 years and deaths from causes considered preventable across all ages are lower in Upper Gipping than Mid Suffolk, Suffolk and England. ▪ The standardised mortality ratio data shown here means that for every 100 early deaths from all causes across England as a whole, there are an estimated 73 comparable deaths in Upper Gipping. ▪ The rate of early deaths from cancers is slightly higher than the district and county average but it should be noted that the confidence intervals around these data are wide. 15 CRIME & COMMUNITY SAFETY

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▪ The crime rate in Upper Gipping is lower than for the Mid Suffolk district and just over half of the rate for the county overall. ▪ In the year to the end of January 2021, there were 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents in Upper Gipping compared to 42 in Mid Suffolk and 66 across the county as a whole. ▪ The most commonly recorded type of crime in Upper Gipping is violence and sexual offences, which accounted for 50% of all crimes recorded in the division during this period. ▪ All types of crime are recorded at a similar or lower rate in Upper Gipping than across Suffolk in overall.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Parishes in Division Bacton Old Newton with Dagworth Braiseworth Stoke Ash Cotton Thorndon Gipping Thwaite Haughley Wetherden Mendlesham Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford Mickfield Wickham Skeith Occold 16 DATA SOURCES

Category Indicator Source

ONS 2019 mid-year population Quinary population table 2019 estimates

Demographic ONS 2019 mid-year population Population pyramid 2019 Profile estimates

Ethnicity 2011 ONS 2011 Census

ONS Business Register and Economy Employment by broad industrial sector 2019 Employment Survey via NOMIS Claimant count: The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance plus those who claim Labour market DWP via NOMIS Universal Credit who are out of work (% 16-64 population) January 2018- February 2021 School information and attainment 2017-2019 Suffolk County Council Education % 16-18-year-olds NEET (Not in Employment, Suffolk County Council via the Education or Training) 2017-2021 Suffolk Observatory Ministry for Housing, Deprivation Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 Communities and Local Government Health Life expectancy at birth 2013-2017 Public Health England Standardised mortality ratio for deaths from all causes, cancer and circulatory disease, (aged under 75), and death from causes considered Health preventable (all ages), 2013-2017. The Public Health England standardised mortality ratio is the ratio of observed deaths in the study group to expected deaths in the general population. Community Recorded crime rate per 1,000 resident Data.police.uk via the Suffolk Safety population February 2020 to January 2021 Observatory

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