The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released a Statistical Bulletin (including data charts and analysis) on Crime in England and Wales for the year ending December 2012.
Overall crime continues to fall in England & Wales during 2012.
Estimated crime fell by 5% year on year, according to the latest results from the 2012 Crime Survey for England & Wales released by ONS. During 2012, the volume of crimes recorded by the police fell by 8%.
Crimes fell in all of the main categories of police recorded crime and across all police force areas in England & Wales. However, there were rises in some sub-categories, such as ‘theft from the person’ which rose by 8%. This represents a speeding-up of the recent increases seen for this offence. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this may be in part driven by theft of smartphones including the phenomena of bike riders stealing phones from people’s hands.
The number of ‘other theft or unauthorised taking’ offences recorded by the police fell 13%. This includes thefts of metal, which anecdotal evidence suggests may be falling in the run-up to the introduction of new legislation on scrap metal trading.
For Norfolk, the figures show 11% decrease in police recorded crime compared with year ending December 2011.
Norfolk and national data can be found on the ONS site at:
The latest batch of results published from the 2011 Census (released at local authority level and above on 11 December) tell us a good deal about what Norfolk is like now and how it has become a much more diverse county than in 2001, the time of the previous census.
One of the many interesting findings was that King’s Lynn and West Norfolk had by far the largest proportion of household spaces that were ‘caravans or other mobile or temporary structures’ – 5.9 per cent or over 4,300 household spaces- of any local authority in the country. This was reported in The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/interactive/2012/dec/11/census-top-ten-charts-jedi-poland-degree?intcmp=239
Here is a video ‘short story’ about the statistics on religion for England & Wales . Similar videos are available on ethnicity and on international migration, from this link:
It’s been widely reported that Norwich is the local authority in England with the highest proportion of people reporting they have ‘no religion’ – 42.5%, or twice the national average. Norwich also had the equal second largest proportion (0.6%) of Jedi Knights. The city had over 2,600 Muslims and around 1,000 each of Hindus and Buddhists.
New questions on passports held and year of arrival (for those born overseas) were introduced for the 2011 Census in order better to understand the patterns of international migration and the characteristics of different groups of international migrants. Fifty-eight per cent of non-UK born Norfolk residents had arrived in the previous ten years (69% in the case of Norwich, representing a third of all in Norfolk). Around 27,400 Norfolk residents were born in EU countries outside the UK and Ireland, and nearly 31,000 in other countries. The main countries represented were Poland, Germany, Lithuania and Portugal.
Around 41,400 people (4.8 per cent) had a national identity other than English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British. Of the 651,200 who held a passport, 22,900 held a passport of EU countries other than the UK or Ireland.
Some 96.5 per cent of Norfolk residents were of White British ethnic group and 3.5 per cent other ethnic groups including 1.1 per cent of mixed or multiple ethnic group. Around 3.5% of the white groups were other than White British, White Irish or White Gypsy or Irish Travellers.
Nearly 109,100 Norfolk households comprised one person – 29 per cent of all households. Of the 263,000 households with two or more people, around 11,500 households (4.3%) had different ethnic groups within partnerships.
Almost 8,000 households in Norfolk had no-one for whom English was their main language. This is 2.1 per cent of households, and the figure for Norwich is more than twice that (4.5 per cent). There were a further 1,100 Norfolk households where at least one child aged 3-15 - but no adult aged 16 and over – had English as a main language.
We will be making all the Norfolk statistics released this month available on Norfolk Insight, and producing a varied series of reports bringing out in more depth what the figures show for Norfolk.
The new questions in the 2011 Census were number of bedrooms, type of central heating, second residence, main language and English language proficiency, month/year of entry into the UK, intended length of stay in the UK, passports held and national identity. The questions that were removed from the Census included professional qualifications, use of (household) amenities and number of workplace employees.
Source: Office for National Statistics, December 2012
Last week the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released more data from the 2011 Census, including population figures by broad age group for areas ranging from the smallest (Output Areas) to local authority level and above. It’s possible to see how local population age distribution and density have changed over the last ten years by using a mapping tool from the ONS data visualisation unit. Data are displayed at Lower Super Output Area resolution.
The example below shows how the proportion of people aged 65 and over has changed considerably across Norfolk since the 2001 Census.
Sources: Office for National Statistics; The Guardian datablog
Data from the Annual Population Survey (2010-11) estimates that employment in main and second jobs in tourism industries in the UK was 2.7 million in 2011, 9.1 per cent of the total for all industries. In today’s (23 Nov 2012) release, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals how this total is distributed across regions and sub-regions of the UK.
Key points are:
There were 2.7 million persons with jobs in tourism characteristic industries in the UK in 2011, 9.1 per cent of all employment.
London and the South East were home to 30 per cent of all employment in tourism characteristic industries in the UK in 2011, highlighting the importance of the capital and surrounding areas to the nation’s tourism employment.
The tourism share of regional employment was highest in London, Scotland and Wales with employment in tourism accounting for 10 per cent of all employment these areas.
At a sub-regional level greater variation has been found than for the region as a whole. At the NUTS 3 level; Torbay (17%), Lochaber, Skye & Lochalsh, Arran & Cumbrae and Argyll & Bute (15%), Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (15%), Gwynedd (15%), and East Cumbria (14%) have the highest proportions of persons with main or second jobs in tourism characteristic industries.
For Norfolk, the overall proportion of employment (main and second job) in tourism industries was 9 per cent.
Full details including a report, maps and data tables are available at the ONS website -
The Guardian datablog has presented an analysis relating deprivation to happiness, using the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 (IMD) and the 2011 Well-being surveys from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Surprisingly, perhaps, the more deprived parts of the UK aren’t necessarily the most unhappy. When ONS conducted well-being surveys in 2011, 73% of respondents mentioned the environment, including local green space and nature, as an important factor in well-being.
The chart below shows this clearly. Cornwall, with a level of deprivation a little below average, was second only to Rutland on life satisfaction. Blackpool tells a different story, being furthest below the mean on both happiness and deprivation.
Norfolk is close to the average on both measures, and with a life satisfaction similar to Wokingham (part of the former county of Berkshire) despite a much higher deprivation score.
Given the factors that can affect life satisfaction – such as health, family and friends, and job security – what could explain, for example, why people are happier in Oxford than in Cambridge?
The Index of Multiple Deprivation and life satisfaction results by 90 local authority groupings (counties, unitary authorities, former metropolitan authorities, inner London, outer London) are given here:
2011 Census – Results for Norfolk
The census results help government and local authorities to plan the services and resources people need, such as transport, housing, health care and education. The amount of money the council has to spend on these important services over the next ten year
Know your area: NHS Norfolk and Waveney's Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG)
Visually compare NHS Norfolk and Waveney’s CCGs using our 2011 Census demographic overview profile and data links. Explore a range of key products including Health and Wellbeing profiles, Drug and Alcohol Profiles and Social Care Profiles.
Norfolk Data Finder
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Norfolk Insight
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Norfolk's Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Norfolk’s JSNA explores the health and wellbeing of people living in Norfolk. It is a collection of information which shows the picture of health and wellbeing. It links basic information about the population with patterns of ill-health and lifestyle.
