This Profile Has Been Produced by Policy and Partnerships, Knowsley Council

St Michaels Ward Profile

May2016

This profile has been produced by Policy and Partnerships, Knowsley Council

Contact: Policy and Partnerships(0151 443 2620)

The data used in this profile

No official data is available yet for Knowsley’s 15 new wards as they only came into effect for the local Council elections in May 2016. As an alternative, this profile has been compiled using data for Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs). These are smaller geographic areas that cover broadly similar numbers of residents and households. They are used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to report census and other Government statistics. Data for several LSOAs is combined to provide figures for each ward. The boundaries of wards and LSOAs don’t always match, so the total ward figures are estimates. In the following map, the new St Michaels ward is highlighted in blue, other ward boundaries are in red, and the LSOA boundaries that cover St Michaels are black.

All data is from the 2011 Census unless stated otherwise.

Populationof St Michaels and change over time

The LSOAs covering the St Michaels ward have a total estimated population of 9,377. As illustrated in the following chart, between 2004 and 2014, the population of St Michaelsdecreased by 4%. This compares with a 2% fall in Knowsley as a whole and an 8% increase nationally.

Changes in the population by age

The following pie charts show the changes in population proportions by age between 2004 and 2014. Compared with the Borough and England, St Michaels has slightly higher proportions of population in the 0-4 (Pre-school age) and 5-15 (School age) and slightly lower proportions in the 16-64 and 65+ age groups.

Changes in the population by age

Between 2004 and 2014, the numbers of residents within the 0-4 age group in St Michaelsrose in line with the overall Borough trend. The 5-15 age group decreased in St Michaels, by a greater percentage than in Knowsley overall. In contrast, St Michaels 65+ population remained approximately the samecompared to a rise the Borough.

Household Composition

There are around 3,920households in St Michaels, with an overall average household size of 2.3 people. This is similar to both the Borough as a whole and the national figure.

St Michaels has a lower proportion of families with no dependent children than both the Borough and England. However St Michaels has a higher proportion of families with one dependent child.

Indices of Deprivation 2015

The latest Index of Multiple Deprivation 2015 ranks every LSOA in England based on several different indicators covering Health, Income, Employment, Crime, Education, Barriers to Housing and Services and Living Environment.

The map shows the deprivation rank of each of the LSOAs that this profile has allocated for theSt Michaels ward.

The first number is the rank out of 32,844 LSOAs in England. The number in brackets is the rank out of Knowsley’s 98 LSOAs.

The lower the number the more deprived the area is.

LSOAs have been allocated to each new ward based on which ward the majority of the LSOAs households are located in. The following table shows that of the 98 LSOAs in the Borough, 45 fall within the most 10% deprived in the country. 5 of those LSOA areas fall within the St Michaels ward boundary.

6of the 7LSOA’s assigned to St Michaels fall within the most deprived 50%, whereas in Knowsley as a whole 84 of the 98 LSOA areas fall under the most deprived 50%.

2 of the 7 LSOAs in St Michaels have seen their ranks worsening over the five year period, the remaining 5 LSOAs have seen improvements in their ranking position.

Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Historically, St. Michaels has been an area that has seen relatively steady levels of both crime and ASB compared to other areas in the Borough.Data in the 12 months leading up to April 2016 shows that the ward recorded 578 crimes, which equates to a crime rate of 62 crimes per 1,000 population. This is slightly lower than the Borough rate of 64 crimes per 1,000 population (9,332 recorded crimes).

St. Michaels also recorded 422 ASB incidents, which equates to a rate of 45 incidents per 1,000 population. This is higher than the Borough rate of 40 ASB incidents per 1,000 population ( 5,821 ASB incidents).

Qualifications

The percentage of residents (aged 16+), with all types of qualifications above Level 2 (GCSE equivalent) is lower in St Michaels than across the Borough and than the national average. 38% of St Michaels residents have no qualifications, compared with 35% in the Borough as a whole.

Economic Status

The following chart shows that the proportion of residents in the 16-74 age group, who are Economically Active, is lower in St Michaels than in the Borough as a whole. Within the category of Economically Inactive, St Michaels has a lower proportion of retired people, but higher proportions of residents who are either looking after home or family, long-term sick or disabled.

General Health

The following chart shows that the proportions of St Michaels residents who identify as being in either very good or good health are lower than those in Knowsley overall. However the proportions of St Michaelsresidents who identify themselves as being in bad health are higher than those in Knowsley.

Long term Health

Residents who have identifiedthemselves as having a long term health problem were asked how these problems affect their day–to-day activities.

75% of St Michaels residents said their day-to-day activities were not limited by their long term health problems.Only 15% of St Michaels residentssaid their day-to-day activities were limited a lot by long term health problems, compared to 14% in the Borough as a whole.