Strategic Housing Market Assessment - North Devon District Council

SHMA: Torridge and North Devon Update
Key findings:
• The North Devon map shows that there were 10 small areas with high
deprivation (10% most nationally deprived) for the Barriers to Housing
and Services Domain, and a further 13 areas with fairly high
deprivation (30% most nationally deprived).
• The Torridge map shows that there were 14 small areas with high
deprivation (10% most nationally deprived) for the Barriers to Housing
and Services Domain and a further 5 small areas with fairly high
deprivation (30% most nationally deprived).
• The Wider Barriers map shows no areas with high levels of deprivation
in small areas for the Housing Indicators (none in the 20% most
nationally deprived). There is one small area with fairly high relative
deprivation in the top 30% located in Ilfracombe. This is the same
LSOA that has high multiple deprivation, income deprivation and living
environment deprivation (E01020112 Ilfracombe Harbour and Seafront) in
the ILFR SMA.
• There are a further 12 areas in the 40% most nationally deprived and
another 14 areas in the 50% most nationally deprived.
• The Geographical Barriers map shows that there are 33 small areas
with high deprivation (10% most nationally deprived) and a further 23
small areas with fairly high deprivation (30% most nationally deprived).
This covers a large part of the geographical area including many rural
areas. The areas with lowest deprivation for access to services are
largely urban.
2.23 Pulling together data and information that has been collated on
deprivation, it is possible to draw the following conclusions:
• Both the Rank of the Average Rank and the Rank of the Average
Scores Indicators from the Local Authority District Summaries of the
English Indices of Deprivation 2010 show that Torridge is relatively
more deprived than North Devon.
• Torridge falls in the 40% most deprived local authorities in England
and North Devon falls in the 50% most deprived using the Rank of
Average Scores and Rank of Average Ranks in the Local Authority
District Summaries for the English Indices of Deprivation 2010.
• Despite Torridge ranking higher than North Devon in the LA District
Summaries, North Devon has more small pockets with higher levels
of both multiple deprivation and income deprivation than Torridge.
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