Maryport – A left behind community? Health and Social Data Dive May 2021 For further information on this report, please contact: Dr Elaine Bidmead, NIHR NENC ARC Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Health and Society, Institute of Health, University of Cumbria – email: [email protected] 1 Contents Summary of main findings ...................................................................................................................... 4 Population ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Ethnicity: ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Income: ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Employment: ................................................................................................................................... 4 Education, Skills and Training: ........................................................................................................ 4 Health Deprivation and disability ................................................................................................... 4 Crime: .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Is Maryport a Left Behind Area? ..................................................................................................... 5 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 6 2. Data for Maryport ........................................................................................................................... 7 3. Population Estimates ...................................................................................................................... 9 3.1 Comparison to Left Behind Areas ............................................................................................... 11 4. Ethnicity ........................................................................................................................................ 11 4.1 Comparison to Left Behind Areas ............................................................................................... 11 5. Household Composition ................................................................................................................ 12 5.1 Comparison to Left Behind Areas ............................................................................................... 14 6. Income .............................................................................................................................................. 14 6.1 Children in low income households ............................................................................................ 15 6.2 Older people ............................................................................................................................... 16 6.3 Comparison to Left Behind Areas ............................................................................................... 18 7. Employment .................................................................................................................................. 19 7.1 Occupation Groups ..................................................................................................................... 19 7.2 Unemployment ........................................................................................................................... 20 7.3 People on Universal Credit.......................................................................................................... 22 7.4 Comparison to Left Behind Areas ............................................................................................... 24 8. Education, Skills and Training ........................................................................................................... 24 8.1 Children and Young People ......................................................................................................... 25 8.2 Comparison to Left Behind Areas ............................................................................................... 26 9. Health Deprivation and Disability ..................................................................................................... 27 9.1 Health Data ................................................................................................................................. 27 9.1.1 Life expectancy .................................................................................................................... 27 9.1.2 Healthy life expectancy ........................................................................................................ 28 9.1.3 Years of potential life lost .................................................................................................... 29 9.1.4 Mortality rates and causes of death .................................................................................... 30 2 9.2 Disease and poor health ............................................................................................................. 31 9.2.1 Self-reported health ............................................................................................................. 31 9.3.2 Limited activity due to health condition .............................................................................. 32 9.3.3 Prevalence of specific health conditions.............................................................................. 32 9.3.4 Hospital admissions ............................................................................................................. 33 9.3.5 Acute Morbidity ................................................................................................................... 34 9.3.6 Incidence of Cancer .............................................................................................................. 35 9.3.7 Mental health ....................................................................................................................... 35 9.3.8 Covid-19 ............................................................................................................................... 36 9.4 Health indicators for children and young people ....................................................................... 36 9.5 Health and Disability Benefits ..................................................................................................... 37 9.5.1 Attendance Allowance ......................................................................................................... 38 9.5.2 Disability Living Allowance ................................................................................................... 38 9.5.3 Employment and Support Allowance ...................................................................................... 39 9.5.4 Personal Independence Payments ....................................................................................... 39 9.5.5 Carers Allowance ................................................................................................................. 40 10. Crime ............................................................................................................................................... 40 11. Barriers to Housing and Services .................................................................................................... 42 11.1 Connectedness .......................................................................................................................... 43 11.1.1 Digital Connectivity ............................................................................................................ 44 11.1.2 Public Transport ................................................................................................................. 46 11.2 Access to Education .................................................................................................................. 46 11.3 Cultural assets ........................................................................................................................... 47 11.4 Wider Barriers ........................................................................................................................... 47 12. Living Environment ......................................................................................................................... 48 13 Index of Multiple Deprivation .......................................................................................................... 49 14. Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 50 References ............................................................................................................................................ 51 3 Summary of main findings The purpose of this report is to present a ‘Deep Dive’ of publicly available health and social data for the town of Maryport. The OCSI reports ‘Understanding communities on the edge’ (2019)’ and ‘Left- behind Areas: Health data dive’ (2021) were used to guide the analysis. Population: left behind areas (LBAs) tend