Different ages and backgrounds
- Peterborough has more people under 10 years old than
average
- There is also a statistically large 25 – 44 year old
population, suggesting proportionally more young families in
Peterborough than in England
- There are slightly fewer people than average aged over 65
- Peterborough has one of the highest proportions of non white
residents in the ONS cluster at 13.2%
- Asian or Asian British (Pakistani) is the second largest
population (4.5%), Other White (including recent EU migration) is
third (3.7%) and Asian or Asian British: Indian next (2.7%)
- 30.5% of primary school pupils do not have English as their
first language
- The ten most common languages spoken in schools are English,
Punjabi, Urdu, Polish, Portuguese, Slovakian, Lithuanian,
Guajarati, Czech and Chinese
- More recent information will be available from the 2011 Census
(due late 2012)
Different opportunities / life chances
- There are still significant health inequalities in life
expectancy within Peterborough
- The difference in average life expectancy for males between the
highest and lowest wards is 11.3 years and for females 10.7 years.
The 2007 JSNA showed the difference was 10.4 years (males) and 8.9
years (females)
- In Peterborough, certain communities experience lower life
expectancy, more infant mortality and general poorer health
outcomes. One such community is travellers, where only 55% reported
no immediate health problems - significantly lower than the other
communities
- Peterborough has a military base and a prison. Both have their
own unique communities, opportunities and challenges
- The prison has a 12-bed, 13-cot mother and baby unit for babies
up to 18 months
- Peterborough is behind the national average for the percentage
of young people achieving five GCSEs grade A*-C (inc: English and
maths). The gap between the national average narrowed between
2008/09 and 2009/10 for all subjects. Initial data for 2010/11
shows a further improvement
- In some schools the rate of students achieving five A*-C grades
at GCSE was 23%. This was more than 85% in the highest performing
schools
Supporting documents
Demographic Population - Facts, Figures and Trends
(1964KB, 86 pages)
Social and Environmental Context
(1017KB, 37 pages)
Children and Young People Outcomes - Educational Attainment
(35KB, 6 pages)
Children and Young People - Benchmarking of Local Authority Expenditure
(46KB, 8 pages)