Strategic Housing Market Assessment - North Devon District Council

SHMA: Torridge and North Devon Update
Key findings:
• Compared with the region and nationally, the population in both districts is
older, especially at 65 plus. The significance of this pattern is threefold:
1. there will be a proportionately higher level of the under-occupation of
family housing which will continue unless options to downsize are
available;
2. there will be a proportionately greater requirement for housing which
meets the requirements of older households, including housing with care;
and
3. there will be a future increase in housing supply through turnover as the
larger proportion of older people downsize, transfer to housing with care or
reach the end of their lives.
• The proportionate distribution of population by age band is very similar
between the 2 authorities, but Torridge has a slightly larger population aged
45+ and therefore, the trends identified above will be proportionately greater.
Ethnicity
2.4 This table provides experimental data to estimate the area’s population by
ethnicity.
Table 2.2: ethnic origin, 2009, 000s
Asian
or
Asian
British
Black
or
Black
British
Chinese
or
Other
All
Groups
White Mixed
Area No % No % No % No % No % No %
North Devon 87.4 95.5 0.9 1.0 1.3 1.4 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.1 91.5 100.0
Torridge 63.1 96.6 0.6 0.9 0.7 1.1 0.5 0.8 0.5 0.8 65.3 100.0
N.Devon & Torridge 150.5 96.0 1.5 1.0 2.0 1.3 1.4 0.9 1.5 1.0 156.8 100.0
South West - 94.1 - 1.3 - 2.3 - 1.2 - 1.2 - 100.0
England and Wales - 87.5 - 1.8 - 6.1 - 2.9 - 1.6 - 100.0
(Source: ONS Experimental Population Estimates Mid-2009, Office for National Statistics
website, http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/.)
Key findings:
• The area has a very small non-White ethnic population estimated to amount
to 4% of the total compared with 6% for the south west and 12.5% for
England.
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