How does disposable income in Warwickshire compare with elsewhere?

A key indicator of the health of the economy is the level of disposable income households have.  By disposable income we mean the amount of money that households have available for spending or saving after income distribution measures (for example taxes and benefits) have taken effect.  This is very different to earnings, which are measured in [...]

Public and Private Sector Employment in Warwickshire

The level of public sector employment has been a focus of attention during the economic downturn and the sector is considered to be particularly vulnerable as the impact of austerity budgeting is felt.  Our graphic presents various measures of how reliant, or not, each of our districts is on the public sector for local employment.  The [...]

New statistics on fly-tipping in Warwickshire

Last month, Defra published new statistics on the number of fly-tipping incidents recorded across all local authority areas in England and Wales.  The latest figures, covering the year 2010/11, illustrated a 13.5% reduction in the number of incidents recorded nationally.  This may seem like a relatively unusual dataset to comment on through this blog, but [...]

Estimating International Migration into Warwickshire

As part of its ongoing programme of improving population estimates, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released new estimates of international migration into each Local Authority area in England and Wales. The estimates use a new methodology and will be used to help calculate the next set of population projections from the ONS. The [...]

A 49% Reduction in Re-Offending for Warwickshire Prolific and Priority Offenders

The Home Office has confirmed that the Warwickshire Prolific and Priority Offender (PPO) Scheme reduced the offending rates of its PPOs by 49% between April 2010 and March 2011. The PPO programme was introduced in 2004 by the Home Office as away of focusing on the small number offenders known to commit a disproportionately large amount [...]

Atlas of Deprivation now available from ONS

The Regional and Local team at Office for National Statistics have published the ‘Atlas of Deprivation’ on the Neighbourhood Statistics website. Based on the 2010 Indices of Deprivation for England, which combine a number of areas chosen to cover a range of economic, social and housing issues into a single deprivation score for each Lower Layer [...]

Handy Collection of Housing Data from Shelter’s Website

Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity organisation, has gathered a range of useful housing datasets within each of the following themes:  Housing Need Affordability Supply Social and Welfare  A tool providing these datasets can be accessed here. These data are taken from the relevant government organisations. They are available at district level, if needed, with [...]

Proposals for new Parliamentary Constituency boundaries released

The Boundary Commission for England has published proposals for new Parliamentary Constituencies and is inviting comments until December 5th.  The boundary review is intended to reduce the number of constituencies in England from 533 to 502 and make sure that each constituency has a similar number of registered electors. We have looked at the proposals for [...]

New DWP Report: ‘Exploring poverty gaps among children in the UK’

The Department for Work & Pensions has today published a new working paper on measuring child poverty. The paper states that its purpose is to: use poverty gap analysis to explore the depth of poverty experienced by children of low-income families in the UK. Measures set out in the Child Poverty Act and in the [...]

Centenarians in Warwickshire…our ageing population

The Department of Work & Pensions has released a report examining life expectancies for different generations, and demonstrates that we cannot use the current model of retirement as the basis for the future.  The report highlights some striking statistics.  For example, 20-year-olds are three times more likely to reach 100 than their grandparents, and twice as likely [...]