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DEMOGRAPHICS EDUCATION Total Population: 128,774 residents Academy Sponsor-Led Braidwood School for the Deaf

Working age population: 71,897 residents Foundation School - Special

Aged Under 16: 37,020 residents Aged 65+: 12,761 residents Community School Gender Academy Special Sponsor-Led Male : 59,473 (48.9%) residents Female: 62,205 (51.1%) residents Academy Sponsor-Led Community School Ethnicity White : 36% Academy Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Groups: 4% Hodge Hill Girls’ School Academy Convertor Asian/Asian British: 50% Community School Black/Black British: 8% Other: 2% Waverley School Rockwood Academy Academy Convertor 60 of the 66 neighbourhoods in Hodge Hill Academy Convertor

in the bottom 20 of most deprived Waverley Studio College Free Schools

EMPLOYMENT Constituency Constituency RESIDENT QUALIFICATIONS Data Sources: Boundary Demographics: Census Jobs: 30,615 (36%) of residents in Apprentices 2011; GOV.UK: KS4 Schools Level 1, employment KS4 Schools hips, 1.6% 15.6% IMD: English Indices of Multiple Deprivation Strategic Full-time employment Strategic 2013; -9.4% Companies UKCES Skills Survey 19,117 (62.4%) 2015 – Skills Lacking in UK Average: 71.8% 16 Year Olds; No Level 2, GOV.UK: Destinations of Part-time employment Qualification 13.6% Key Stage 4 and Key 11,498 (37.6%) +9.4% KEY STAGE 4 DESTINATIONS s, 39.2% Stage 5 Pupils 2015; UK Average: 28.2% Education: DfE 2016, Schools, Pupils and their • Sustained education destinations (88%) Unemployed Level 3, 9.6% Characteristics; • FE Colleges (41%) Resident Qualifications: 8,562 (10.1%) +2.5% • Apprenticeships (2%) Other Census 2011; UK Average: 7.6% • State-funded sixth form (21%) Qualification Level 4+, Employment: Census • Sustained employment/ destination (3%) s, 8.3% 12.1% 2011 BUSINESS – 37 STRATEGIC COMPANIES

No Company Name Major Sector 1 Hijaz Travel Limited Business, Professional and Financial Services 2 Sure Retail Ltd Retail 3 Birmingham International Coaches Limited Logistics & Transport Technologies 4 Claribel Coaches Limited Logistics & Transport Technologies 5 Automation Investments Limited Logistics & Transport Technologies 6 P.G.S. Logistics Holdings Ltd Business, Professional and Financial Services 7 Shipley Brothers Limited Cultural Economy inc. Sports 8 Armagard Limited Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering 9 Inviso Enterprises UK Limited Business, Professional and Financial Services 10 J & R Trading (UK) Limited Retail 11 Motion Finance Limited Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering 12 Afak Trading Limited Retail 13 Mobile Fun Limited Retail 14 Linkline Express Services Limited Logistics & Transport Technologies 15 SHT Limited Logistics & Transport Technologies 16 Central Furniture Manufacturing Limited Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering 17 Softheads Ltd Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering 18 HUM Network UK Ltd Digital & Creative 19 Aziz Textiles Limited Retail 20 Ghanim International UK Limited Cultural Economy inc. Sports 21 East Birmingham Community Forum Ltd. Life Sciences & Healthcare 22 H.W. Taroni (Metals) Limited Retail 23 International Metal Service (UK) Limited Retail 24 Haji Ismail & Sons Limited Retail 25 United Care Limited Life Sciences & Healthcare 26 Aimfur Health Limited Retail 27 Advantage Investments Limited Business, Professional and Financial Services 28 Goldens International Limited Retail 29 Midlands Motors Limited Retail 30 Walter J. Parsons (Electrical Engineers) Limited Construction (Building Technologies) 31 M.E.J. Hingley & CO. Limited Retail 32 Rachyal & CO Limited Retail 33 Granite & Marble (Services) Limited Construction (Building Technologies) 34 Birmingham Heartlands And Solihull NHS Trust (Teaching) - General Charitable Fund N/A 35 Heartlands Education Centre Limited Public Sector including Education 36 Sterling Pharmaceuticals Limited Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering 37 Urban Star Ltd Retail