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8th January 2009

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Economy

• Businesses

• Commercial Property

  • New developments

  • Employment

Community

• Population

• Deprivation

• Education/Skills

Housing

• House Prices

• Dwelling stock

• Occupied dwellings

             

 

 

Businesses

 

Business Figures

 

Total no of businesses	4000
VAT registered businesses	3000
New registrations	305
De-registrations	250

 

 

New businesses/job gains

• Scottish & Southern Energy -  1500 jobs created at former Autoliv site

 

Redundancies/business closures 

• Wyeth Pharmaceuticals - 200 jobs to go over next 2 years

Source: local press

 

 

Commercial Property

 

 

Existing stock of property (2006)

Source: local knowledge (2005)

 *Share of national Commercial floor space

 

 

New Developments (2005 onwards)

                               

Source: Local press 2005-2007

 

 

Employment

 

The latest figures on Havant’s industrial structure present some significant changes that have occurred since the mid to late 90s.

 

The figures show a 13.7% decline in the manufacturing industry between the years 1995 and 2005. 

 

Despite the decline in Havant’s construction and manufacturing industries, they are still relatively high compared to Portsmouth and other surrounding areas and are still major contributors to Havant’s competitive economic performance.

 

The personal services industry increased steadily throughout the period between 1995 and 2005.

 

The proportion of Havant’s transport and communications sector has always been relatively low compared to other industries in the area and falls below the regional and national averages. 

                        

 

 

Unemployment and Benefits claimants

 

Unemployment is relatively low in Havant.  The latest figures indicate that only 4.6% of the population are unemployed.

 

In contrast, 83.0% are employed and a further 1.6% of the resident population is economically active, i.e. in higher/further education.

 

The unemployment rate decreased and then increaised in correlation with the contrasting employment rate throughout 2006.  The figures were exactly the same at the beginning and end of the year.  

 

Source: Nomis 2005

 

 

Employment by Industry (2005)

 

 

Unemployment by ward (2005)

 

 

Source: National Statistics (Census 2001)

Benefit claimants only make up a small proportion of Havant’s resident population.

 

The majority of benefits claimants in Havant are receiving incapacity benefits.

 

Only 16% of claimants in the borough are receiving jobseeker’s allowance. The number of jobseekers has decreased by 0.1% since 2006.

 

From November 2004 onwards, the number of lone parents has remained fairly constant at around 2.4% of the working age population.

 

Havant has a relatively high percentage of lone parents compared to the regional and national averages.

 

Havant’s percentage of unpaid carers on benefits is higher than both the regional and national averages.

 

The jobseeker’s statistical profiles are consistent with the population’s demographic structure. As a result, the majority of people claiming Jobseeker’s allowance are males aged between 25 and 49.

       

 

                                                                                                                                                                                         

Key benefit claimants (Feb 2007)

Source: Nomis (Nov 2006)

                                                                                       

% is proportion of resident working age population

 

*Total JSA claimants July 2007 –                                 

Count – 1316 (2.0%)

                                                                                      

                                                                              

Percentage of Key Benefit claimants

 

Source: Nomis (2007)

 

 

Community

 

 

Population structure

                                                            

Population trends indicate that Havant’s population has been declining since its peak in 1987.

 

The female population is marginally higher than the male population and over half of the residents are currently of working age.

 

Havant has an aging population. Only 35% of the resident population is under 30 years of age. The majority of people are between 30 to 60 years of age. 

 

Source: ONS (2001)

                

                                                                   

Population Figures

Gender	Population	%	Working age population	%
Male	56111	48	34200	61.7
Female	60738	52	32600	54.4
Total	116849	100	66800	57.9

 

Source: Nomis, midyear population estimates (2005)

 

 

 

Deprivation

 

Deprivation is measured by a series of indices (known as the Indices of Multiple Deprivation or IMD) prepared by the government. 

These indices are calculated approx every 4 years. The last survey was in 2004. This is known as: IMD 2004

 

These indices measure: 

·        Income (22.5%)

·        Employment (22.5%)

·        Health (13.5%)

·        Education/skills (13.5%

·        Barrier to Housing (9.3%)

·        Crime and Disorder (9.3%)

·        Living environment (9.3%)

 

These indices can be considered individually.  However when one is looking at deprivation in general the weighted score (in brackets above) across all 7 indicators is used. 

 

Out of the 354 local authorities in England, Havant is rated 137^nd most deprived (1^st is Liverpool, 354^th is Hart, N Hants)

 

Other local areas:

·        Portsmouth 89^th

·        Gosport 190^th

·        Chichester 280^th

·        East Hants 329^th

·        Fareham 331^st

 

Up until 2000 these statistics were compiled at ward level.  The 2004 IMD brought in the concept of the Super Output area (SOA)

Each of Havant’s 14 local government wards comprises 4 –7 SOAs . Havant in total comprises 77 super output areas (SOAs) Each SOA has a population of between 1208 and 2167.  In general any SOA that is within the top 20% would be considered to be deprived.

 

The whole of England comprises 32482 SOAs .  Within Havant we have 3 SOAs which are within the top 10% of the most deprived SOAs in England

 

These are:

·        Central Leigh Park (Stockheath/ Dunsbury Way), Battins Ward

·        Central Leigh Park area (High lawn Ave – Petersfield Road) Battins Ward

·        Southern Warren Park, Warren Park ward

 

We also have 14 SOA s within the top 20% most deprived in England. 

 

These are:

·        2 SOAs that cover the Wecock estate in Hart Plain ward

·        3 out of the 5 SOAs that comprise Bondfields ward

·        2 SOAs that consist of the rest of Battins ward

·        4 SOAs that consist of the rest of Warren Park ward

·        3 out of the 4 SOAs that comprise Barncroft ward

 

Therefore almost all of Leigh Park (Warren Park, Bondfields, Battins and Barncroft wards) can be considered to be deprived as can the Wecock Farm estate in Hart Plain.

 

Other pockets of deprivation within the Borough include:

·        Parts of Stakes (3 SOAs   in top 30%)

·        Beachlands area of Hayling West ward. (1 SOA in top 30%)

 

By way of contrast some parts of the Borough are very affluent.

The following wards have at least 1 SOA in the top 20% least deprived areas)

 

·        Bedhampton 2 SOAs     

·        Cowplain ward  3 SOAs       

·        Emsworth ward 2 SOAs

·        Hart Plain 2 SOAs

·        Hayling West 1 SOA

·        Purbrook  3 SOAs ·    

·        St Faiths ward 3 SOAs

·        Waterloo ward 4 SOAs

 

 

To look at individual localities go to:

           

Neighbourhood Statistics Online (External website) >>

                                                             

 

                                                                                                    

Education and Skills

 

GCSE League tables (% of pupils passing 5 A* - C GCSEs )

Havant’s average A*-C pass rate rose by 2.6% between the academic years of 2005 and 2006.

 

The comparative pass rates of Havant and Portsmouth were consistent throughout 2005 and 2006, with Havant’s average pass rates remaining around 8.5% higher than Portsmouth’s.

 

In 2006, Havant’s average was 10.8% higher than the national average.

 

Despite the high GCSE pass rates; the majority of Havant residents have NVQs, rather than GCSEs or A levels.

 

In August 2007, Havant College was recognised as the best performing sixth-form college in this part of the country.

 

 

SCHOOL	SPECIALISM	2005	2006
COWPLAIN	Business and Enterprise	55%	49%
HAYLING	Maths and  Computing	38%	59%
PARK	Arts/media	64%	68%
PURBROOK	Languages	56%	58%
STAUNTONPARK	Sport	33%	39%
WARBLINGTON	Science and maths	43%	48%
OAKLANDS RC	Humanities	75%	78%
CROOKHORN	Technology	51%	50%
HAVANT AVE		54%	56.6%
HANTS AVE		60.7%	61.6%
PORTSMOUTH AVE		45.9%	47.6%
NATIONAL AVE		56.3%	45.8%

 HAVANT SEC

 

Source: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/performancetables/

 

*Schools in bold are members of Havant Federation of Schools

                                                                                                                                    

 

 

                                                                                   

Average asking prices

 

 

Comparative asking prices

 

 

Average House Prices

 

The average asking prices in Havant are generally higher than the prices in Gosport.

 

Havant’s average is significantly higher than Gosport’s and Portsmouth’s averages.  It’s more expensive to purchase a 4 bedroom house in Havant than in Portsmouth, despite the fact that 3 bedroom houses are more expensive in Portsmouth.

 

 

Dwelling stock

 

The majority of Havant’s housing stock is comprised of detached and semi detached houses and bungalows. 24% is terraced.

 

Purpose build flats or apartments comprise 14% of the total housing stock.

 

Source: Local Knowledge, June 2007

 

 

Occupied/unoccupied dwellings

 

3.7% of Havant’s household stock is currently unoccupied.

 

30.9% of unoccupied housing stock is comprised of second homes and/or holiday accommodation, the majority of which is situated on Hayling Island.

 

Second residencies and holiday homes account for 1.2% of all of Havant’s dwelling stock.

 

 

Source: National Statistics (Census 2001)

 

 

 

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