Dr Diana Grice East Sussex Downs

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Dr Diana GriceEast Sussex Downs Weald
Primary Care Trust andHastings Rother Primary
Care Trust
An overview of East Sussex - Facts and figures
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Health of our Residents

• The health of East Sussex Residents is generally
  good.
• Life expectancy for both men (77.5 years) and
  women (81.9 years) is better than national
  average.
• Number of deaths attributable to smoking, and
  for people under 75 from heart disease, stroke
  and cancer are lower than the national average.
• 29 of adults are estimated to smoke, this is
  higher than the England and regional averages.
  Across East Sussex over 41 of adults are
  estimated to eat healthily and 17.3 of adults
  are estimated to be obese, these are both better
  than the England averages.
• However, there is significant variation in health
  experience within East Sussex

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Life expectancy
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Deprivation
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Demographic changes

• Population is slowly increasing
• 497,000 population 1 increase between 2001 and
  2005. Eastbourne has fastest growth (by 3.4)
• A growing elderly population
• 1 in 4 residents are over pensionable age. East
  Sussex has highest percentage of very elderly
  residents of any county in England.
• Future population growth
• Countys population is forecast to increase to
  around 519,000 by 2026.
• There will be heavy concentration of older age
  groups

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• More deaths than births
• 1600 more deaths than births in East Sussex each
  year
• Continuing net in-migration
• 32,300 moving in and 28,600 moving out in 2004/5
  (East Sussex and Brighton and Hove combined
  figure
• Household size decreasing
• Over next 20 years number of people living alone
  is likely to increase and will represent 42 of
  households by 2026

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Employment

• High percentage of small firms
• Nearly three-quarters of businesses employ fewer
  than five people
• Increase in businesses
• Since 1995 the number of VAT registered
  businesses has increased by 13.2
• Greater percentage of people in work
• Percentage of working age people increased from
  71 in 1991 to 75 in 2001
• Small rise in unemployment
• 2005-6 number of people who do not work and
  receive Job Seekers Allowance increased by
  2.8(by 156) to 5,731 across the county

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• More people working from home
• Number more than doubled in 10 year period to
  2001 24,500 (12 of all residents who work)
• Low average wages
• 2006 average gross weekly wage for full-time
  earners in East Sussex was 473. This is 17
  below South East average and 12 less than
  average for Great Britain
• Significant areas of deprivation
• 13 Super Output Areas in East Sussex fall within
  the 10 most disadvantaged in England

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Learning

• Skills levels are improving
• December 2005 over 47 of residents of working
  age are qualified to at least NVQ Level 3
  (increase of 4)
• Educational attainment is improving
• East Sussex is the third highest local authority,
  outside of London, for the rate of pupil progress
  
• Key Stage 2 English 78 2006 (compared to 63
  1997) and Maths 74 (compared to 61 1997)
• GCSE and equivalent 5 A-C 55.4 2006 (compared
  to 45.5 1997)
• The provisional average A Level point score per
  candidate in 2006 (revised) was 245.3 compared to
  233.8 in 2002
• Number of people entering full-time higher
  education increased by 350 in 2006/06 compared
  with 1999/2000

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Housing

• South East Plan 2006-2026
• Proposals for an extra 27,000 homes across the
  county by 2026 (1,350 per annum)
• Quality of homes is worst in the private sector
• 10,954 homes in East Sussex that are not fit to
  live in 95 are privately owned (representing
  4.7 of all homes in the county)
• Increase in need for affordable housing
• Number of households on housing registers has
  increased by over 40 since 2001 11,000
  households (April 2006)
• 80 of households on housing registers are small
  households who need up to 2 bedrooms
• Affordability gap is still high
• Average house price in county is 200,900,
  although they are higher in Lewes, Rother and
  Wealden.

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In Summary

• Positives in the county
• Peoples skills improving
• A greater percentage of residents in work
• More people working from home
• The gap reducing between people on high incomes
  and people on low incomes
• Household incomes increasing and
• The quality of housing improving.

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In Summary

• Areas to improve
• A slight increase in unemployment
• Longer journeys to work
• The economy not performing well
• A shortage of land available for business
  development
• Continuing pressure on the housing market from
  net in-migration
• High house prices and low earnings leading to a
  very high gap in what people can afford and
• Not enough new affordable housing available