AREA PROFILE

Area Profile



Area Profile

The Area

Greater Eston is located to the west of Redcar and Cleveland and comprises of six wards: Eston, Grangetown, Normanby, Ormesby, South Bank, and Teesville. It is a predominantly urban area which is bordered by open countryside to the south, and heavy industry to the north and east. The main town and village centres in the area are in Eston and Normanby, although there are smaller precincts of shops elsewhere and a major supermarket in South Bank.

Although there are pockets of affluence in Normanby and Ormesby, much of the area experiences high levels of deprivation, with low housing demand and imbalanced housing stock, high levels of crime and unemployment, poor health and low educational attainment. Here, the more economically mobile have tended to move away, leaving a concentration of less affluent, often workless and vulnerable residents behind. This has impacted on the economic viability of some of the neighbourhoods and local centres in the area.

However, there is a great deal of work underway to regenerate and rejuvenate Greater Eston, bringing in wealth, and creating a more prosperous and desirable area to live. The social issues of his area are children and young people, healthier communities and older people, safer communities, and stronger communities.

The Population

Based on 2010 population figures the Greater Eston Area has a population of 38,735 which accounts for 28.3% of the borough. The largest proportion of residents lives in the Eston Ward which has 7,175 residents.

Age profiles (by broad age groups) for the wards in Greater Eston indicate that different wards have contrasting populations; this is best evidenced through the populations of Ormesby Ward and Grangetown Ward. Grangetown has a very young population with 28.3% of the residents aged 0- 15 years and only 8.4% above retirement age, Ormesby is the opposite with only 15.1% aged 0-15 and 24.2% above retirement age.

Although the non-white population of this area is generally below the Tees Valley and national average, South Bank ward has a greater concentration of Black Minority Ethnics (BME) then the Tees Valley average and the highest proportion in the borough at 5.3%.

Indices of Multiple Deprivations (IMD)

The IMD is a combination of the different types of deprivation (domains) experienced by individuals living in an area, which can be recognised and measured separately and are listed below. The domains are combined in the percentages shown at each bullet point to recognise the impact of each domain and provide the overall level of deprivation. The IMD presents data at Lower Super Output areas (LSOA), which are smaller than Wards, but can be clustered together to fit within Ward boundaries. The LSOA with a rank of 1 is the most deprived, and 32482 the least deprived, on this measure.

Income Deprivation (22.5%) - relates to the proportion of the population living in low income families, who are reliant on means tested benefits. The domain score is the proportion of the population living in low income families.

Employment Deprivation ...