CS - Toxteth and Lympstone - Two contrasting place profiles at a local scale

LS: Demographic: What is the median age and what percentage of the population are white? What is the total population?

• median age = 40

• 98.9% are white

• 1700 people in 2011 census

LS: Socioeconomic: How much of the working age population is employed? How does the average salary compare to Toxteth? How is the unemployment rate and education? Percentage people with bad or very bad health?

• Over 70% of working age population employed

• Avg salary 2x Toxteth

• Unemployment rate 3.8%

• 100% of students passed at least 2 A-levels in 2015

• 4.1% have bad/very bad health

• Dementia/Alzheimers is the leading cause of death (12.7%)

LS: Cultural: Whats the main religion and language?

• 66.9% Christian

• 98.8% speak english

LS: Political: Since when have they been represented in government? How many members in the local government?

• Represented in house of commons since 2001

• 11 members on local government

LS: Built environment: How is the built environment?

• Strict planning rules to protect architecture

• Mainly domestic buildings

• Railway passing through

LS: What are the natural characteristics?

• Large fishing areas

• Cliff field managed by national trust

• 15km south of Exeter

How was Lympstone used in the past?

• Built environment change in 1840 as tourism began - to be by the sea

• Became more connected w shellfish, and railway in 1861 allowed for time-space compression to reach a wider market

• Used as a dormitory settlement for Exeter

How is Lympstone today?

• Knowledge economy - 1/3 of employees classified as managers/seniors etc.

• Meteorological office moved to Exeter

• Top-heavy age structure

TT: What is the median age and average ethnicity?

• median age is 30

• Toxteth is more ethnically diverse with 78.6% of the population being white, and 6% being mixed

TT: Socio-economic: Percentage of owner-occupiers? Percentage of people with bad or very bad health? Percentage aged sixteen or over with no formal qualifications?

• Owner-occupiers 24% (below national average 64.5%)

• 9.4% have bad/very bad health (national average 5.6%)

• 27.2% aged 16 or over with no formal qualifications

TT: Political: What is Toxteth part of?

• The Liverpool Riverside parliamentary constitency

• An electorate of about 73,000

TT: How is the built environment?

• Adapted by migrant communities

• Mosques and ethnic retailers are visual indicators of a changing place

• Old docks turned into 162 flats

Where did most people work in Toxteth and why did that change?

• Either in the docks or in industries linked with the processing of imported goods e.g. sugar refining and flour milling

• Containerisation and the migration of docks further to the north led to substantial unemployment (this was a significant factor in the 1981 Toxteth riots)