Second wave of 2011 Census results

The second wave of information from the 2011 Census has now been released. This concerns details at district level, with a third wave expected next year regarding individual wards. This is the Hyndburn report:

Ethnicity
The ‘White’ population in Hyndburn (Including White British, White Irish, White Gypsy & Traveller and White Other) has fallen from 91.7% in 2001 down to 87.6% in 2011. This includes White Other and Gypsy and Travellers that could be described as minority ethnic.
Nationally 85.5% of the population describe themselves as ‘White’, falling down from 90.9% back in 2001.
The proportion of ‘Asian’ population has grown from 7.6% in 2001 upto 11% in 2011. This compares slightly higher than the national figure of 7.7% - rising from 5% in 2001.

Religion
The largest religious belief in Hyndburn is ‘Christian’ with 66.4% (falling 9.9% since 2001), followed by ‘Muslim’ with 10.3% (rising 3.1% since 2001). The biggest increase has been with those stating ‘No religion’ rising from 9.2% in 2001 upto 17% in 2011.
Nationally 59.4% of the population would describe their religious beliefs as ‘Christian’, falling down from 71.7% in 2001. Those who stated ‘No religion’nationally rose from 14.6% in 2001 upto 24.7% in 2011.

Property Type
The proportion of ‘detached’ properties and flats has slightly increased in the borough from 10.6% in 2001 upto 11.7% in 2011. The proportion of ‘purpose built flats’ has also increased from 6.7% upto 7.5%. The borough is still significantly dominated by terraced housing with 52.6% in comparison with 24.5% nationally.

Tenure
Hyndburn’s ‘Private Rented stock’ has risen from 7.9% upto 18.1% in 2011 (ranked 76th in the country out of 348 local authorities). Across Lancashire private rented stock stands at 15.1%, England & Wales it stands at 16.7%, 13.7% in the Ribble Valley and 19.3% in Burnley.
The proportion of people who ‘own a property with a mortgage’ has fallen from 48.3% in 2001 down to 34.3% in 2011, with the proportion of people ‘who own outright’ staying the same over the past decade.

Central Heating
5.2% of households in Hyndburn ‘do not have Central Heating’ (1,786 households) – this is the third highest in Lancashire behind Pendle with 6% and Blackpool 5.5%. Hyndburn is ranked 19th highest in the country.

Households
In 2011 Hyndburn had 34,341 households (32,979 in 2001) with a total population of 80,734 (81,470 in 2001) which comes to an average 2.3 household size in the borough; this is similar to the national average of 2.4 people per household.
Hyndburn is ranked 5th highest for the proportion of ‘Male lone parents who are not in employment’. The actual numbers are quite low 149 in comparison to 183 ‘Male lone parents in employment’.

Education
Nationally there are more people (27.4%) who have attained ‘Level 4’ qualifications (equivalent to a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education) than those with ‘no qualifications’ 22.5%.
In Hyndburn there is a higher proportion (28%) with ‘no qualifications’ compared to 18.9% with ‘Level 4 qualifications’ and above. However, this shows a 6.1% rise in Level 4 qualifications over the past 10 years and a fall of 7.5% in those without any qualifications.
In Lancashire Hyndburn have the second highest rates of people who have gained an ‘Apprenticeship’ with 5.5%, just slightly lower than the South Ribble with 5.8% in comparison with 3.6% nationally and 3.9% across the North West. Hyndburn was ranked 8th across all local authorities nationally for people who have gained an apprenticeship.

Employment
Hyndburn is ranked 15th for the proportion of ‘workers working in the manufacturing industry’ with 16.9%.
The largest employment sector in Hyndburn is the ‘Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motor cycles’ (broad range of employment sectors) with 18.4% of the workforce ranked 40th in the country.

We will keep you posted when the next wave of data is released.