Sheffield: A Changing City Census 2011

1. Sheffield: A Changing CityCensus 2011 James Henderson Director of Policy, Performance and Communications Sheffield City Council

2. Today • Introduction to the census • A changing city • Population structure • Ethnicity • Inequalities • Health • Labour Market • What does this tell us?

3. Census 2011 • Carried out on 27 March 2011 across the UK • Gathers information about: • Household composition • Ethnicity • Language and national identity • Religion • Reported health • Work and skills • Most of the data now published – available at small geographic levels across the country • May be the last census carried out in this way

5. Population • 8% population increase since 2001 • Age profile similar to 2001 • 25% aged 0-19 • 16% aged 65 and over • Most significant increases in 15 – 29 age groups

6. Housing • Sheffield has 236,811 dwellings • 25% households live in social rented properties, compared to 59% owner occupiers • 9% households were deemed to have less space than they required • There has been a large increase in private renting since 2001

7. Labour Market • Over a third of economically active people are employed full-time but part-time and self employment has increased since 2001 • 5% are unemployed (1% above national average) – an increase from 4% in 2001 • Public sector provides around a third of jobs in the city, with 9% in manufacturing • Almost a quarter of residents aged 16 or over have no formal qualifications

8. Black and Minority Ethnic Population • 19.2% of people are BME - 10.8% in 2001 • Younger age profile • Pakistani community is still the largest group • Biggest increases in Arab, Black African and Chinese communities • Irish community has decreased in size • Large increase in Eastern European community from A8 expansion

9. Ethnicity 2001

10. Ethnicity 2011

11. Ethnicity – Household Composition • 32,751 BME households in Sheffield – 77% increase since 2001 • Compared with White British households: • Higher proportion of households are married couples or same sex civil partnership couples • Fewer pensioner only households • 13% are lone parent households – this has not changed since 2001

12. New Arrivals Length of residence Year of arrival

13. Country of Birth • 12% of Sheffield residents were born outside the UK • This figure has doubled in the last 10 years • Most frequent countries included Pakistan, China, India and Somalia • 5,311 people from A8 countries, more than half from Poland • 61% of people born abroad arrived in the UK since 2001

14. Country of Birth

15. Language • 8% of the population have a main language other than English • 1.7% of people cannot speak English or speak English very well • Arabic the most common main language • At least 87 different main languages spoken by people in Sheffield

16. Language

17. Inequalities - Health • Census has fairly limited information on health. • Fall in people with Limiting Long-term Illness (LLTI) of 2 percentage points • Gap between wards with highest and lowest LLTIs has fallen slightly • Decrease in people not in good health, by 5 percentage points • Gap between wards with most and least people in poor health has decreased by same margin • 2011 Census suggests general and geographical health inequalities are declining

18. Inequalities - Health • Lower % of BME people have LLTI and are not in good health than White British population • Gap between White British and BME people with LLTI has grown by since 2001. • However, the % of BME people reporting as being in poor health has declined at a slower rate than White British – the gap has narrowed. • Few significant gender inequalities regarding health have occurred between since 2001.

19. Inequalities – labour market • 6% of working age population is unemployed in Sheffield – 4% in 2001 • Youth unemployment is 13% - up from 6% in 2001 • 10% of working age BME people are unemployed - increase of 2 percentage points since 2001 • Slight growth in male unemployment • Female unemployment has grown to 4% - 3% in 2001 • 2011 Census suggests labour market inequalities are increasing

20. Inequalities – Labour Market • Burngreave currently has highest current unemployment rate (10%) • Dore & Totley has the lowest (2%) • Gap between highest and lowest ward unemployment has grown to 8% - 6% in 2001. • 2011 Census suggests that geographical inequalities in the labour mark are increasing

21. Inequalities - Housing • Tenure: • 39% of BME households own their own home – down from 48% in 2001 • More BME households now rent from a private landlord – 33% compared with 20% • Social renting has remained the same • Overcrowding • 26% of BME households are deemed to have less space than they need compared with only 7% of White British households • The persons per room rate is higher; 9% of BME households have 1 or more person living per room compared with only 1% of White British households.

22. Inequalities - Housing

23. Inequalities - Housing • Central Ward: • 56% households in private rented dwellings; 23% social, 18% owner occupiers • 43% of households have fewer rooms than they require • 7% have no central heating • 39% one person households, but 13% with 5 or more residents

24. Conclusions – what is this telling us? • Sheffield continues to change rapidly – becoming more diverse and with more older and younger people • The overall conclusion is that, generally, Sheffield has become both a more equal and more unequal place over the last decade • Inequalities between geographic and non-geographic communities masked by apparent stability at whole city level