Wycombe Councillor Update Economic Profile of Icknield Ward
Wycombe Councillor Update Economic Profile of Icknield Ward
April 2014
Produced by Buckinghamshire Business First’s research department
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Introduction Icknield is home to 3,193 people and provides 900 jobs in 71 businesses. Of these businesses, 33 (45.6 per cent) are Buckinghamshire Business First members. There were 1,542 employed people aged 16-74 living in Icknield ward at the 2011 Census, 55 more than the 1,487 recorded in 2001. Over that period the working age population rose 65 to 1,889 while the total population rose 157 to 3,193. The number of households rose by 109 (9.3 per cent) to 1,286. This is a significant percentage increase and places the ward fifth out of all wards in Wycombe. Based on the increase in number of households, the ward ranks 22nd out of all wards in Buckinghamshire. The largest companies in Icknield include:
Great Kimble C of E School; The Plough; P & S Robinson Ltd; NAI Haywards; BV Associates Ltd; The Chiltern Brewery Company Ltd; and Longwick C of E Combined School.
There are 16 Icknield, representing 0.8 per cent of working age residents, including 10 claimants aged 18-24 and 10 who have been claiming for less than six months. Superfast broadband is expected to be available to 38 per cent of premises in the Icknield ward by March 2016 with commercial providers responsible for 94 per cent. The Connected Counties project, run by BBF, deliver the remaining 56 per cent through its interventions in Princes Risborough and Stoke Mandeville exchange areas. BBF is seeking to deliver an extended superfast footprint via additional funding, adaptation of downstream technology and contract claw-back mechanism. At the time of the 2001 Censusi, of the 1,564 employed residents, 449 people lived and worked in the ward, with the most common destinations by local authority district being:
Wycombe (756, 48.3) Aylesbury Vale (247, 15.8) South Oxfordshire (66, 4.2) Chiltern (53, 3.4) Hillingdon (42, 2.7) Westminster, City of (39, 2.5) Dacorum (30, 1.9) City of London (24, 1.5)
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Industrial structure There are 71 businesses located in Icknield employing 900 people. Of these businesses, 58 are micro businesses, employing fewer than 10 people. Icknield is over-represented in Education which accounts for 42.3 per cent of employment ranking 309th out of all wards. The ward is over-represented in construction which accounts for 5.5 per cent of employment. Based on this proportion, the ward is ranked 4,192nd out of all wards. The ward is also over-represented in health which covers 15.4 per cent of employment ranking the ward 2,662nd out of all wards. Chart 1: Industrial Structure Index, 2012 (GB=100) Mining, quarrying & utilities Manufacturing Construction
Motor trades Retail Transport & storage Accommodation & food services
Information & communication Financial & insurance Property Professional, scientific & technical
Business administration & support services Public administration & defence Education Health Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services 0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
Source: BRES, ONS, 2013 Icknield is under-represented in a number of sectors including; manufacturing; financial & insurance; and public administration & defence. Manufacturing accounts for just 1.6 per cent of employment ranking the ward 6,16oth out of all wards. Financial and insurance covers 0.3 per cent of employment ranking the ward 5,056th out of all wards. Finally, public administration and defence covers only 2.8 per cent of employment. Based on this proportion the ward is ranked 6,279th out of all wards.
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The Industrial Strategy and the Plan for Growth
Plan for Growth and the Industrial Strategy set out policies to realise this objective and to rebalance the economy, which include focusing on sectors expected to deliver strong growth. Wycombe -represented in these sectors, particularly aerospace, the information economy and professional and business services. While Icknield provides jobs in these sectors, the industrial strategy sector where the ward delivers the highest share of national employment is professional & business services which accounts for 10.6 per cent of employment, ranking Icknield at 2,409th among English wards. The proportions of jobs in Icknield in Industrial Strategy sectors are presented in Table 1.
Construction
PBS
Information Economy
Education
Table 1: Employment in selected industrial strategy sectors, 2012
Wycombe Buckinghamshire England
5.4 5.2 4.2
12.4 14.7 12.1
6.6 4.4 2.9
8.9 9.7 9.2
Icknield
8.4
10.6
3.4
7.7
Source: BRES, ONS, 2013 At 8.4 per cent, the proportion of Icknield construction sector is the 1,904th highest of all wards in England, the proportion is below that of both the country level and the district level. 3.0
Labour market At 66.4 per cent of 16-74 year olds, Icknield lowest in the country. Icknield has a proportion of 41.3 per cent of its residents qualified to degree level or higher. Furthermore, 58.8 per cent work in managerial, professional or technical occupations. In Wycombe the wards most similar to Icknield are Lacey Green, Speen & The Hampdens, Bourne End-cum-Hedsor and Greater Marlow with nine of the other 27 wards among the top thousand closest matches. The least similar ward in the district is Oakridge & Castlefield, the only ward in Wycombe to rank lower than the 7,000th closest match.
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Self-employed
SOCs 1-3
NVQ4+
Working age
Employment rate
Chiltern Rise Icknield Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens Bourne End-cum-Hedsor Greater Marlow Marlow North and West Greater Hughenden
2011 Work from Home
Table 2: Icknield
10.6 10.5 7.1 7.8 6.6 7.1
17.7 16.8 13.7 13.4 13.9 14.5
58.8 64.6 57.6 64.5 57.6 54.5
41.3 47.6 37.3 45.6 41.8 37.7
59.2 60.1 60.3 59.8 58.8 60.7
66.4 68.6 66.5 68.1 68.0 68.2
Source: Census, 2011 Icknield has a high level of those who work from home and are self-employed. Furthermore, as stated previously, the ward has a high level of those educated to degree level or higher and those working in managerial, professional and technical roles ranking in the top quartile for both. Icknield looks to have a high employment rate and a low level of working age residents. Chart 2: Icknield Work from Home 100
75
Employment rate
50
Self-employed
25
0
Working age
SOCs 1-3
NVQ4+
Source: Census, 2011
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Occupational Structure Icknield remunerated occupations, with 58.8 per cent of working residents employed in managerial, professional and technical occupations, ranking in the top quartile nationally for each. In contrast Icknield ranks in the bottom quartile for other occupations, with only 4.9 per cent of working residents employed in elementary occupations. Chart 3: Icknield 1. Managers, directors and senior officials 100
9. Elementary occupations
75
2. Professional occupations
50
8. Process plant and machine operatives
25
3. Associate professional and technical occupations
0
7. Sales and customer service occupations
6. Caring, leisure and other service occupations
4. Administrative and secretarial occupations
5. Skilled trades occupations
Source: Census, ONS, 2011 5.0
Deprivation Buckinghamshire has the lowest level of economic deprivation of any Local Enterprise Partnership, with Wycombe having the 13th lowest economic deprivation of all 326 local authority districts in England, behind South Bucks (10th) but ahead of Aylesbury (37th) and Wycombe (69th). Chart 4 demonstrates the concentration of Wycombe least deprived in England with 12 of the 25 wards featuring among the least deprived 10 per cent of all wards in England and only three ranking among the most deprived half of English wards, a stark contrast to the London Borough of Newham where no ward ranks above halfway, highlighting the challenge Wycombe faces to attract resources to tackle deprivation.
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Icknield has the 515th lowest economic deprivation of the 7,707 wards in England and the seventh least economically deprived of the 28 Wycombe wards. Icknield is the 34th least economically deprived among the 108 ward in Buckinghamshire. The position of Wycombe ds in England is shown in Chart 4 below, with Icknield one of the nine least deprived decile. Chart 4: Relative economic deprivation of Wycombe wards by English decile, 2009 10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Most deprived
Least deprived
Source: DCLG, 2012 Icknield ranks 6,517th out of all wards in England based on the Index of Multiple Deprivationii; this makes it among the less deprived in England, above Wycombe rank of 5,471st, demonstrating that the ward is less deprived than the district as a whole.
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Chart 5: Comparative deprivation by IMD domain in Icknield IMD 100.0
75.0
Living environment
Income
50.0
25.0
Crime
Employment
0.0
Housing
Health
Education
Source: DCLG, 2010 The wards in Wycombe most closely matching Icknield deprivation profile are presented in Table 3. Nationally, the closest matches are Winkfield & Crambourne (Bracknell Forest), Nevile (Rushcliffe) and Wingrave (Aylesbury Vale) while Bledlow & Bradenham and Greater Marlow are the most similar in Wycombe ranking as the 19th and 39th most similar of all English wards. Of the 25 Wycombe wards eight are among the 1,000 best matches, however Micklefield is only the 5,923rd closest match.
Income
Employment
Health
Education
Housing
Crime
Living environment
Ward Icknield Bledlow and Bradenham Greater Marlow Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens Greater Hughenden
IMD
Table 3: Deprivation Nearest Neighbours
18 14.8 5.4 0.8 1
5.9 2 4.1 1.4 0.6
1 1.3 1.1 1.3 0.4
9.1 0.3 5.8 6 3.9
3.7 1 1 1.3 5.8
91.1 96.8 77.8 68.6 62.4
20.4 7.4 23.6 3.7 21.1
16 6.7 2.2 10.6 10.7
Source: DCLG, 2010
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Demography At 42.4 years, Icknield above the 39.4 recorded across Wycombe as well as the county average of 41.0. This makes Icknield one of the older wards in England as suggested by the over-representation of 65+ year olds in Chart 6. In terms of age structure, two of the wards in Wycombe most similar to Icknield are Hazlemere North and Booker & Cressex with average ages of 42.7 and 42.8 respectively. Chart 6: Icknield age profile, 2011 (Wycombe = 100) Working Age
0-15
16-24
25-44
45-64
65+
80.0
90.0
100.0
110.0
120.0
130.0
140.0
Source: Census, ONS, 2013 Icknield has a lower proportion of working age residents than Wycombe at 58.6 per cent. This ranks Icknield at 6,802nd of all wards in England based on proportion of residents at working age. Icknield has a fairly high proportion of those aged 65+ at 22.9 per cent. This ranks Icknield at 1,560th of all wards in England putting it among the top 40 per cent of all wards in England for this age bracket.
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Table 4: Wycombe
Wycombe
0-15 20.1
16-64 63.5
65+ 16.4
Abbey Bledlow and Bradenham Booker and Cressex Bourne End-cum-Hedsor Bowerdean Chiltern Rise Disraeli Downley and Plomer Hill Flackwell Heath and Little Marlow Greater Hughenden Greater Marlow Hambleden Valley Hazlemere North Hazlemere South Icknield Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens Marlow North and West Marlow South East Micklefield Oakridge and Castlefield Ryemead Sands Stokenchurch and Radnage Terriers and Amersham Hill Totteridge The Risboroughs The Wooburns Tylers Green and Loudwater
16.6 18.2 16.3 16.3 24.1 20.6 20.9 22.0 18.7 18.7 23.7 19.9 20.1 21.4 18.5 22.6 18.9 19.3 24.4 25.5 20.1 21.7 18.7 19.3 20.1 16.9 19.5 19.7
72.5 64.9 62.1 60.3 67.6 63.4 69.2 61.6 59.7 60.7 59.8 60.7 58.3 61.4 58.6 60.1 58.8 63.6 64.5 67.1 70.2 68.9 64.4 68.6 63.1 57.8 65.5 65.6
10.9 16.9 21.6 23.4 8.4 16.0 9.9 16.5 21.5 20.6 16.4 19.4 21.6 17.2 22.9 17.2 22.3 17.1 11.1 7.5 9.6 9.4 16.9 12.1 16.8 25.2 15.0 14.8
Source: Census, 2011
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Educational attainment Wycombe is one of the best qualified places in the country, with only 17.0 per cent of residents aged 16 and over holding no qualifications, well below the 22.5 per cent recorded across the country as a whole, while 34.2 per cent hold degree level qualifications, well above the national level of 27.4 per cent. Icknield only 13.5 per cent having no qualifications and 41.3 per cent educated to degree level or higher. There is a total of 2.8 per cent of Icknield residents who are schoolchildren or fulltime students aged 16 to 17. This is fairly high in comparison to other wards in Wycombe as well as other wards across England. England is presented in Chart 7 below. Chart 7: Educational attainment in Icknield, 2011 No qualifications 100
Schoolchildren and fulltime students: Age 18 and over
75
Highest level of qualification: Level 1 qualifications
50
25
0
Schoolchildren and fulltime students: Age 16 to 17
Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above
Highest level of qualification: Level 2 qualifications
Highest level of qualification: Level 3 qualifications
Source, Census, 2011 Icknield is most similar to Emmbrook (Wokingham), Amberly & Woodchester (Stroud) and Sandywell (Cotswold) of all English wards with regard to educational attainment. In the district the most similar wards are Bledlow & Bradenham, Marlow North & West and Greater Marlow with nine of the other 25 wards ranking inside the top 1000 matches but with Booker Oakridge & Castlefield ranking outside the top 7,000.
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Highest level of qualification: Level 1 qualifications
Highest level of qualification: Level 2 qualifications
Highest level of qualification: Level 3 qualifications
Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above
Schoolchildren and full-time students: Age 16 to 17
Schoolchildren and full-time students: Age 18 and over
Icknield Bledlow and Bradenham Marlow North and West Greater Marlow Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens Hambleden Valley
No qualifications
Table 5: Educational attainment nearest neighbours, 2011
13.5 12.3 15.9 9.6 10.2 10.6
10.8 9.2 10.5 9.7 9.9 9.0
14.6 15.7 13.9 15.7 14.8 15.0
12.0 13.0 11.0 12.4 12.1 11.9
41.3 42.7 41.8 45.6 47.6 45.8
2.8 2.6 2.5 3.1 3.2 2.0
1.9 2.0 2.1 2.6 2.7 2.1
Source: Census, ONS, 2011 7.1
Icknield Buckinghamshire has the strongest schools performance any LEPiii, with over a quarter of and 88.0 per cent of young people in the county achieving at least NVQ level 2 by 19. Icknield most recent OFSTED reports, which are summarised below.
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Buckinghamshire Business First in Icknield Of the 71 businesses in Icknield, 33, or 46.5 per cent are Buckinghamshire Business First members. BBF members in the ward are presented in Table 6 below. Table 6: BBF members in Icknield, November 2013 Business Employee Size Band Finloch Management Services NAI Haywards 11 to 25 BV Associates Ltd 11 to 25 The Chiltern Brewery Company Ltd 11 to 25 Horizon Sports Club 11 to 25 Wittey Machinery Ltd 6 to 10 Tracey's Cakes Ltd 6 to 10 W L Clark Wendover Ltd 1 to 5 Barbara Aylesbury Ltd 1 to 5 Barnes & Wells Tree Care 1 to 5 Blue River Controls Ltd 1 to 5 Vale Training Services 1 to 5 A V Transport 1 to 5 BTS 1 to 5 Cega Corporate Support 1 to 5 Enchanted Creations 1 to 5 The Personal Plant Shopper 1 to 5 Orchard View Farm 1 to 5 Greg Connells Ltd 1 to 5 No Ordinary Easel 1 to 5 Alternative Investments Ltd 1 to 5 Excellence Training Ltd 1 to 5 Gold Star Recording 1 to 5 Sarah Brambleby Solutions Ltd 1 to 5 Solarpak Systems Ltd 1 to 5 Food Under Focus Ltd 1 to 5 Total FX Fireworks Ltd 1 to 5 Abraxas Financial Consultants 1 to 5 JJS Bookkeeping Services Self only Through Their Eyes Self only Messini Bay Trading Company Self only Stewart Clough Self only On Grapevine None
£44m per annum during construction and will continue to lead on socio-economic work for Buckinghamshire as mitigation work progresses, having drafted the relevant section in the Buckinghamshire Blueprint document.
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Businesses in Wycombe The distribution of businesses in Wycombe is shown in the map below. With 71 businesses, Icknield has 2.0 1.1 per cent
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i ii
Travel to work data from the 2011 Census are expected to be released in 2014. See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-indices-of-deprivation-2010
iii
19: http://www.bbf.uk.com/download/226 and http://www.bbf.uk.com/download/228
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Introduction Icknield is home to 3,193 people and provides 900 jobs in 71 businesses. Of these businesses, 33 (45.6 per cent) are Buckinghamshire Business First members. There were 1,542 employed people aged 16-74 living in Icknield ward at the 2011 Census, 55 more than the 1,487 recorded in 2001. Over that period the working age population rose 65 to 1,889 while the total population rose 157 to 3,193. The number of households rose by 109 (9.3 per cent) to 1,286. This is a significant percentage increase and places the ward fifth out of all wards in Wycombe. Based on the increase in number of households, the ward ranks 22nd out of all wards in Buckinghamshire. The largest companies in Icknield include:
Great Kimble C of E School; The Plough; P & S Robinson Ltd; NAI Haywards; BV Associates Ltd; The Chiltern Brewery Company Ltd; and Longwick C of E Combined School.
There are 16 Icknield, representing 0.8 per cent of working age residents, including 10 claimants aged 18-24 and 10 who have been claiming for less than six months. Superfast broadband is expected to be available to 38 per cent of premises in the Icknield ward by March 2016 with commercial providers responsible for 94 per cent. The Connected Counties project, run by BBF, deliver the remaining 56 per cent through its interventions in Princes Risborough and Stoke Mandeville exchange areas. BBF is seeking to deliver an extended superfast footprint via additional funding, adaptation of downstream technology and contract claw-back mechanism. At the time of the 2001 Censusi, of the 1,564 employed residents, 449 people lived and worked in the ward, with the most common destinations by local authority district being:
Wycombe (756, 48.3) Aylesbury Vale (247, 15.8) South Oxfordshire (66, 4.2) Chiltern (53, 3.4) Hillingdon (42, 2.7) Westminster, City of (39, 2.5) Dacorum (30, 1.9) City of London (24, 1.5)
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Industrial structure There are 71 businesses located in Icknield employing 900 people. Of these businesses, 58 are micro businesses, employing fewer than 10 people. Icknield is over-represented in Education which accounts for 42.3 per cent of employment ranking 309th out of all wards. The ward is over-represented in construction which accounts for 5.5 per cent of employment. Based on this proportion, the ward is ranked 4,192nd out of all wards. The ward is also over-represented in health which covers 15.4 per cent of employment ranking the ward 2,662nd out of all wards. Chart 1: Industrial Structure Index, 2012 (GB=100) Mining, quarrying & utilities Manufacturing Construction
Motor trades Retail Transport & storage Accommodation & food services
Information & communication Financial & insurance Property Professional, scientific & technical
Business administration & support services Public administration & defence Education Health Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services 0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
Source: BRES, ONS, 2013 Icknield is under-represented in a number of sectors including; manufacturing; financial & insurance; and public administration & defence. Manufacturing accounts for just 1.6 per cent of employment ranking the ward 6,16oth out of all wards. Financial and insurance covers 0.3 per cent of employment ranking the ward 5,056th out of all wards. Finally, public administration and defence covers only 2.8 per cent of employment. Based on this proportion the ward is ranked 6,279th out of all wards.
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The Industrial Strategy and the Plan for Growth
Plan for Growth and the Industrial Strategy set out policies to realise this objective and to rebalance the economy, which include focusing on sectors expected to deliver strong growth. Wycombe -represented in these sectors, particularly aerospace, the information economy and professional and business services. While Icknield provides jobs in these sectors, the industrial strategy sector where the ward delivers the highest share of national employment is professional & business services which accounts for 10.6 per cent of employment, ranking Icknield at 2,409th among English wards. The proportions of jobs in Icknield in Industrial Strategy sectors are presented in Table 1.
Construction
PBS
Information Economy
Education
Table 1: Employment in selected industrial strategy sectors, 2012
Wycombe Buckinghamshire England
5.4 5.2 4.2
12.4 14.7 12.1
6.6 4.4 2.9
8.9 9.7 9.2
Icknield
8.4
10.6
3.4
7.7
Source: BRES, ONS, 2013 At 8.4 per cent, the proportion of Icknield construction sector is the 1,904th highest of all wards in England, the proportion is below that of both the country level and the district level. 3.0
Labour market At 66.4 per cent of 16-74 year olds, Icknield lowest in the country. Icknield has a proportion of 41.3 per cent of its residents qualified to degree level or higher. Furthermore, 58.8 per cent work in managerial, professional or technical occupations. In Wycombe the wards most similar to Icknield are Lacey Green, Speen & The Hampdens, Bourne End-cum-Hedsor and Greater Marlow with nine of the other 27 wards among the top thousand closest matches. The least similar ward in the district is Oakridge & Castlefield, the only ward in Wycombe to rank lower than the 7,000th closest match.
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Self-employed
SOCs 1-3
NVQ4+
Working age
Employment rate
Chiltern Rise Icknield Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens Bourne End-cum-Hedsor Greater Marlow Marlow North and West Greater Hughenden
2011 Work from Home
Table 2: Icknield
10.6 10.5 7.1 7.8 6.6 7.1
17.7 16.8 13.7 13.4 13.9 14.5
58.8 64.6 57.6 64.5 57.6 54.5
41.3 47.6 37.3 45.6 41.8 37.7
59.2 60.1 60.3 59.8 58.8 60.7
66.4 68.6 66.5 68.1 68.0 68.2
Source: Census, 2011 Icknield has a high level of those who work from home and are self-employed. Furthermore, as stated previously, the ward has a high level of those educated to degree level or higher and those working in managerial, professional and technical roles ranking in the top quartile for both. Icknield looks to have a high employment rate and a low level of working age residents. Chart 2: Icknield Work from Home 100
75
Employment rate
50
Self-employed
25
0
Working age
SOCs 1-3
NVQ4+
Source: Census, 2011
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Occupational Structure Icknield remunerated occupations, with 58.8 per cent of working residents employed in managerial, professional and technical occupations, ranking in the top quartile nationally for each. In contrast Icknield ranks in the bottom quartile for other occupations, with only 4.9 per cent of working residents employed in elementary occupations. Chart 3: Icknield 1. Managers, directors and senior officials 100
9. Elementary occupations
75
2. Professional occupations
50
8. Process plant and machine operatives
25
3. Associate professional and technical occupations
0
7. Sales and customer service occupations
6. Caring, leisure and other service occupations
4. Administrative and secretarial occupations
5. Skilled trades occupations
Source: Census, ONS, 2011 5.0
Deprivation Buckinghamshire has the lowest level of economic deprivation of any Local Enterprise Partnership, with Wycombe having the 13th lowest economic deprivation of all 326 local authority districts in England, behind South Bucks (10th) but ahead of Aylesbury (37th) and Wycombe (69th). Chart 4 demonstrates the concentration of Wycombe least deprived in England with 12 of the 25 wards featuring among the least deprived 10 per cent of all wards in England and only three ranking among the most deprived half of English wards, a stark contrast to the London Borough of Newham where no ward ranks above halfway, highlighting the challenge Wycombe faces to attract resources to tackle deprivation.
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Icknield has the 515th lowest economic deprivation of the 7,707 wards in England and the seventh least economically deprived of the 28 Wycombe wards. Icknield is the 34th least economically deprived among the 108 ward in Buckinghamshire. The position of Wycombe ds in England is shown in Chart 4 below, with Icknield one of the nine least deprived decile. Chart 4: Relative economic deprivation of Wycombe wards by English decile, 2009 10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Most deprived
Least deprived
Source: DCLG, 2012 Icknield ranks 6,517th out of all wards in England based on the Index of Multiple Deprivationii; this makes it among the less deprived in England, above Wycombe rank of 5,471st, demonstrating that the ward is less deprived than the district as a whole.
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Chart 5: Comparative deprivation by IMD domain in Icknield IMD 100.0
75.0
Living environment
Income
50.0
25.0
Crime
Employment
0.0
Housing
Health
Education
Source: DCLG, 2010 The wards in Wycombe most closely matching Icknield deprivation profile are presented in Table 3. Nationally, the closest matches are Winkfield & Crambourne (Bracknell Forest), Nevile (Rushcliffe) and Wingrave (Aylesbury Vale) while Bledlow & Bradenham and Greater Marlow are the most similar in Wycombe ranking as the 19th and 39th most similar of all English wards. Of the 25 Wycombe wards eight are among the 1,000 best matches, however Micklefield is only the 5,923rd closest match.
Income
Employment
Health
Education
Housing
Crime
Living environment
Ward Icknield Bledlow and Bradenham Greater Marlow Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens Greater Hughenden
IMD
Table 3: Deprivation Nearest Neighbours
18 14.8 5.4 0.8 1
5.9 2 4.1 1.4 0.6
1 1.3 1.1 1.3 0.4
9.1 0.3 5.8 6 3.9
3.7 1 1 1.3 5.8
91.1 96.8 77.8 68.6 62.4
20.4 7.4 23.6 3.7 21.1
16 6.7 2.2 10.6 10.7
Source: DCLG, 2010
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Demography At 42.4 years, Icknield above the 39.4 recorded across Wycombe as well as the county average of 41.0. This makes Icknield one of the older wards in England as suggested by the over-representation of 65+ year olds in Chart 6. In terms of age structure, two of the wards in Wycombe most similar to Icknield are Hazlemere North and Booker & Cressex with average ages of 42.7 and 42.8 respectively. Chart 6: Icknield age profile, 2011 (Wycombe = 100) Working Age
0-15
16-24
25-44
45-64
65+
80.0
90.0
100.0
110.0
120.0
130.0
140.0
Source: Census, ONS, 2013 Icknield has a lower proportion of working age residents than Wycombe at 58.6 per cent. This ranks Icknield at 6,802nd of all wards in England based on proportion of residents at working age. Icknield has a fairly high proportion of those aged 65+ at 22.9 per cent. This ranks Icknield at 1,560th of all wards in England putting it among the top 40 per cent of all wards in England for this age bracket.
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Table 4: Wycombe
Wycombe
0-15 20.1
16-64 63.5
65+ 16.4
Abbey Bledlow and Bradenham Booker and Cressex Bourne End-cum-Hedsor Bowerdean Chiltern Rise Disraeli Downley and Plomer Hill Flackwell Heath and Little Marlow Greater Hughenden Greater Marlow Hambleden Valley Hazlemere North Hazlemere South Icknield Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens Marlow North and West Marlow South East Micklefield Oakridge and Castlefield Ryemead Sands Stokenchurch and Radnage Terriers and Amersham Hill Totteridge The Risboroughs The Wooburns Tylers Green and Loudwater
16.6 18.2 16.3 16.3 24.1 20.6 20.9 22.0 18.7 18.7 23.7 19.9 20.1 21.4 18.5 22.6 18.9 19.3 24.4 25.5 20.1 21.7 18.7 19.3 20.1 16.9 19.5 19.7
72.5 64.9 62.1 60.3 67.6 63.4 69.2 61.6 59.7 60.7 59.8 60.7 58.3 61.4 58.6 60.1 58.8 63.6 64.5 67.1 70.2 68.9 64.4 68.6 63.1 57.8 65.5 65.6
10.9 16.9 21.6 23.4 8.4 16.0 9.9 16.5 21.5 20.6 16.4 19.4 21.6 17.2 22.9 17.2 22.3 17.1 11.1 7.5 9.6 9.4 16.9 12.1 16.8 25.2 15.0 14.8
Source: Census, 2011
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Educational attainment Wycombe is one of the best qualified places in the country, with only 17.0 per cent of residents aged 16 and over holding no qualifications, well below the 22.5 per cent recorded across the country as a whole, while 34.2 per cent hold degree level qualifications, well above the national level of 27.4 per cent. Icknield only 13.5 per cent having no qualifications and 41.3 per cent educated to degree level or higher. There is a total of 2.8 per cent of Icknield residents who are schoolchildren or fulltime students aged 16 to 17. This is fairly high in comparison to other wards in Wycombe as well as other wards across England. England is presented in Chart 7 below. Chart 7: Educational attainment in Icknield, 2011 No qualifications 100
Schoolchildren and fulltime students: Age 18 and over
75
Highest level of qualification: Level 1 qualifications
50
25
0
Schoolchildren and fulltime students: Age 16 to 17
Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above
Highest level of qualification: Level 2 qualifications
Highest level of qualification: Level 3 qualifications
Source, Census, 2011 Icknield is most similar to Emmbrook (Wokingham), Amberly & Woodchester (Stroud) and Sandywell (Cotswold) of all English wards with regard to educational attainment. In the district the most similar wards are Bledlow & Bradenham, Marlow North & West and Greater Marlow with nine of the other 25 wards ranking inside the top 1000 matches but with Booker Oakridge & Castlefield ranking outside the top 7,000.
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Highest level of qualification: Level 1 qualifications
Highest level of qualification: Level 2 qualifications
Highest level of qualification: Level 3 qualifications
Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above
Schoolchildren and full-time students: Age 16 to 17
Schoolchildren and full-time students: Age 18 and over
Icknield Bledlow and Bradenham Marlow North and West Greater Marlow Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens Hambleden Valley
No qualifications
Table 5: Educational attainment nearest neighbours, 2011
13.5 12.3 15.9 9.6 10.2 10.6
10.8 9.2 10.5 9.7 9.9 9.0
14.6 15.7 13.9 15.7 14.8 15.0
12.0 13.0 11.0 12.4 12.1 11.9
41.3 42.7 41.8 45.6 47.6 45.8
2.8 2.6 2.5 3.1 3.2 2.0
1.9 2.0 2.1 2.6 2.7 2.1
Source: Census, ONS, 2011 7.1
Icknield Buckinghamshire has the strongest schools performance any LEPiii, with over a quarter of and 88.0 per cent of young people in the county achieving at least NVQ level 2 by 19. Icknield most recent OFSTED reports, which are summarised below.
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Buckinghamshire Business First in Icknield Of the 71 businesses in Icknield, 33, or 46.5 per cent are Buckinghamshire Business First members. BBF members in the ward are presented in Table 6 below. Table 6: BBF members in Icknield, November 2013 Business Employee Size Band Finloch Management Services NAI Haywards 11 to 25 BV Associates Ltd 11 to 25 The Chiltern Brewery Company Ltd 11 to 25 Horizon Sports Club 11 to 25 Wittey Machinery Ltd 6 to 10 Tracey's Cakes Ltd 6 to 10 W L Clark Wendover Ltd 1 to 5 Barbara Aylesbury Ltd 1 to 5 Barnes & Wells Tree Care 1 to 5 Blue River Controls Ltd 1 to 5 Vale Training Services 1 to 5 A V Transport 1 to 5 BTS 1 to 5 Cega Corporate Support 1 to 5 Enchanted Creations 1 to 5 The Personal Plant Shopper 1 to 5 Orchard View Farm 1 to 5 Greg Connells Ltd 1 to 5 No Ordinary Easel 1 to 5 Alternative Investments Ltd 1 to 5 Excellence Training Ltd 1 to 5 Gold Star Recording 1 to 5 Sarah Brambleby Solutions Ltd 1 to 5 Solarpak Systems Ltd 1 to 5 Food Under Focus Ltd 1 to 5 Total FX Fireworks Ltd 1 to 5 Abraxas Financial Consultants 1 to 5 JJS Bookkeeping Services Self only Through Their Eyes Self only Messini Bay Trading Company Self only Stewart Clough Self only On Grapevine None
£44m per annum during construction and will continue to lead on socio-economic work for Buckinghamshire as mitigation work progresses, having drafted the relevant section in the Buckinghamshire Blueprint document.
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Businesses in Wycombe The distribution of businesses in Wycombe is shown in the map below. With 71 businesses, Icknield has 2.0 1.1 per cent
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Travel to work data from the 2011 Census are expected to be released in 2014. See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-indices-of-deprivation-2010
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19: http://www.bbf.uk.com/download/226 and http://www.bbf.uk.com/download/228
