Icknield ward profile April 2019 Business Intelligence | Luton Council Visit our information observatory | Visit our council website Contents Summary for Icknield .................................................................................................................................... 3 Demographics .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Mid-year population estimates .................................................................................................................. 5 Age breakdown ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Population by ethnicity .............................................................................................................................. 6 Deprivation ................................................................................................................................................... 7 Economic Activity ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Employmen ............................................................................................................................................... 8 Claimant count .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Crime .......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Burglary .................................................................................................................................................. 10 Hate crime .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Anti-social behaviour ............................................................................................................................... 11 Fly tipping ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Perceptions of Luton ................................................................................................................................... 12 Education (2017 results) ............................................................................................................................. 15 Early Years ............................................................................................................................................. 15 Key stage 1 ............................................................................................................................................. 16 Key stage 2 ............................................................................................................................................. 17 Key stage 4 ............................................................................................................................................. 18 Health ......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Low birth weight ...................................................................................................................................... 19 General health ........................................................................................................................................ 19 Obesity ................................................................................................................................................... 20 Life expectancy ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Causes of death ...................................................................................................................................... 21 Housing ...................................................................................................................................................... 22 Number of households ............................................................................................................................ 22 Type of household spaces ...................................................................................................................... 22 Tenure .................................................................................................................................................... 23 Social rented households ........................................................................................................................ 24 Average house prices ............................................................................................................................. 25 Occupancy levels .................................................................................................................................... 26 Appendix .................................................................................................................................................... 27 2 of 27 Icknield ward profile v4.0 – April 2019 Summary for Icknield These series of reports provide a summary of the latest available information on the demographic and socio-economic make-up of the nineteen wards in Luton. It looks at the population structure and provides information on the economic, housing and educational achievement of each ward. What’s new – April 2019: Perceptions survey update (i) Icknield’s view of Luton: 27 per cent feel the image of Luton has improved over the last year 46 per cent feel positive about the future of this town Residents top rated aspects: 1. Health services (66%) 2. Sports and leisure facilities (65%) 3. Schools (58%) November 2018: Housing there are 74,293 households in Luton of which 3,027 (4.1 per cent) are in Icknield the most common type of household space in Icknield is semi-detached with 45 per cent, followed by 33.9 per cent detached (ii) the most common tenure in Icknield is households owned outright with 42.6 per cent and 36.5 per cent of households are owned with a mortgage (iii) Icknield has fairly low levels of social rented households in Luton with 11.1 per cent. The lowest is in Barnfield with 1.5 per cent and highest in Northwell with 33.8 per cent (iv) the average three bedroom house in Luton in October 2018, cost £280,000 compared to £302,000 in Icknield (v) Icknield has a low proportion of overcrowding in Luton, with 6.6 per cent (vi) August 2018: Health Icknield had a lower than average level of low birth weights over a five year period with 8.3 per cent, Luton’s average was 9.1 per cent (vii) in the 2011 census, the percentage of people who self-reported bad or very bad health was higher than average in Icknield with 5.2 per cent (as a percentage of the total number of people who responded to this question) (viii) obesity levels in Icknield for both children and adults were lower than the average in Luton (ix) the average life expectancy in Luton for females is 82.4 and male 78.5. Icknield was about the same with 80.6 and 78.3 respectively (x) the highest number of deaths recorded in Icknield was cancer (second highest number in town) followed by circulatory disease (xi) April 2018: Demographics (xii) Icknield ward is located in the north west of the borough. The population of Icknield (based on mid- year estimate 2016) was just over 7,700, accounting for 3.6 per cent of Luton’s population Icknield has a substantially higher number of individuals aged over 55 accounting for 35.4 per cent of the wards population 3 of 27 Icknield ward profile v4.0 – April 2019 Population (xiii) the white (British, Scottish, N. Irish, Welsh) population of Icknield consists of 61.2 per cent, compared to Luton’s average of 44.6 per cent the rest of the ethnicity is broken down on the chart below showing the second highest proportion of those living in Icknield are Indian with 8.1 per cent Deprivation (xiv) the 2015 indices of multiple deprivation showed that the northern half of Icknield is in the top 20 to 50 per cent most deprived and the southern part in the top 20 to 50 per cent least deprived nationally the percentage of children living in poverty after housing costs is 20 to 25 per cent Economic activity Icknield has a slightly higher proportion of economically active individuals than the average in Luton with 79 per cent (xv) there is a high proportion of professionals with 17.9 per cent and managers / senior officials with 10.2 per cent there were 55 people claiming unemployment benefit in Icknield at the start if 2018; a rate of 1.2 per cent (xvi) Crime (xvii) during 2016 and 2017 there were 72 incidents of burglaries reported in Icknield in the same year, it reported the second lowest incidents of ASB in town with 174 there was a fairly average level of fly tipping incidents with 140 incidents Perceptions of Luton (xviii) From wave 2 of the perceptions survey, it was identified that: 75 per cent of Icknield’s population were satisfied with Luton as a place to live only 39 per cent felt Luton’s image had improved in the past 12 months 82 per cent of the residents agreed that their local area was a place