Resident Population and Age

The resident population of Lowick, as measured in the 2001 Census, was 989 of which 49 per cent were male and 51 per cent were female. The resident population of Berwick-upon-Tweed was 25,949, of which 48 per cent were male and 52 per cent were female.

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Under 16	16.2	17.1	20.2
16 to 19	4.8	4.4	4.9
20 to 29	6.6	8.4	12.6
30 to 59	46.3	41.7	41.5
60 to 74	18.4	18.2	13.3
75 and over	7.7	10.2	7.6
Average age	42.8	43.5	38.6

Marital Status

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Single (never married)	19.8	22.1	30.1
Married or re-married	63.9	56.9	50.9
Separated	2.0	2.3	2.4
Divorced	5.6	7.7	8.2
Widowed	8.7	11.0	8.4

Ethnic Group

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England
White	99.7	99.6	90.9
Mixed	0.3	0.2	1.3
Asian or Asian British	0.0	0.1	4.6
Indian	0.0	0.0	2.1
Pakistani	0.0	0.0	1.4
Bangladeshi	0.0	0.0	0.6
Other Asian	0.0	0.0	0.5
Black or Black British	0.0	0.0	2.1
Caribbean	0.0	0.0	1.1
African	0.0	0.0	1.0
Other Black	0.0	0.0	0.2
Chinese or Other Ethnic Group	0.0	0.1	0.9

Religion

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Christian	82.1	82.4	71.8
Buddhist	0.3	0.1	0.3
Hindu	0.0	0.0	1.1
Jewish	0.0	0.0	0.5
Muslim	0.0	0.0	3.0
Sikh	0.0	0.0	0.6
Other religions	0.4	0.2	0.3
No religion	9.6	10.8	14.8
Religion not stated	7.6	6.4	7.7

Health and provision of care

The 2001 Census asked people to describe their health, over the preceding 12 months as 'good', 'fairly good' or 'not good'.

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Good	67.1	65.1	68.6
Fairly good	23.4	25.4	22.2
Not good	9.5	9.6	9.2

It also asked questions about any limiting long-term illness, health problem or disability which limited peoples daily activities or the work they could do.

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
With a limiting long-term illness	19.7	20.7	18.2

For the first time, the 2001 Census asked a question about any voluntary care provided to look after, or give any help or support to family members, friends, neighbours or others because of long term physical or mental ill-health or disability, or problems relating to old age.

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Provided unpaid care	15.1	10.3	10.0

There are two main benefits associated with health that are paid to people needing help with personal care. They are the 'Disability Living Allowance' and the 'Attendance Allowance'.

The Disability Living Allowance is a benefit paid to people under 65, who are disabled, and need help with personal care, and/or getting around. In August 2000, 850 people in Berwick-upon-Tweed received this benefit.

The Attendance Allowance is paid to people over the age of 65, who are so severely disabled, physically or mentally, that they need supervision or a great deal of help with personal care. In May 2000, 590 people in Berwick-upon-Tweed received this benefit.

Economic Activity

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Employed	61.4	59.5	60.6
Unemployed	3.2	3.6	3.4
Economically active full-time students	0.5	1.4	2.6
Retired	18.2	19.0	13.6
Economically inactive students	3.8	2.3	4.7
Looking after home/family	5.4	5.9	6.5
Permanently sick or disabled	5.3	5.8	5.5
Other economically inactive	2.1	2.5	3.1

Within Lowick, 33 per cent of those unemployed were aged 50 and over, 0 per cent had never worked and 29 per cent were long term unemployed.

In August 2000, there were 315 Jobseeker Allowance claimants in Berwick-upon-Tweed of which 30 per cent had child dependants. The Job Seeker Allowance (JSA) is payable to people under pensionable age who are available for, and actively seeking, work of at least 40 hours a week. Figures produced here are those only for people claiming income-based JSA.

In August 2000, there were 1,470 Income Support claimants in Berwick-upon-Tweed, of which 1 per cent were aged under 20. Income support was introduced on April 11th 1988 and can be paid to a person who is aged 16 and over, is not working 16 hours or more a week, and has less money coming in than the law says they need to live on.

Students and Qualifications

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Total number of full-time students and schoolchildren aged 16 to 74	32	691	2,648,992
Percentage of total resident population	3.2	2.7	5.1
Total number aged 16 to 17	25	446	1,014,284
Total number aged 18 to 74	7	245	1,634,708

 

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Had no qualifications	30.0	35.4	29.1
Qualified to degree level or higher	21.4	14.4	19.8

Housing and Households

In Lowick there were 431 households in 2001. 100 per cent of the resident population lived in households. The remainder of the population lived in communal establishments. The number of households in Berwick-upon-Tweed was 11,653.

	Lowick	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
One person households	28.1	32.2	30.0
Pensioners living alone	14.9	18.7	14.4
Other All Pensioner households	12.3	12.4	9.4
Contained dependent children	23.5	24.2	29.5
Lone parent households with dependent children	3.0	4.6	6.5
Owner occupied	53.8	57.5	68.9
Rented from Council	6.5	19.0	13.2
Rented from Housing Association or Registered Social Landlord	4.4	2.8	6.0
Private rented or lived rent free	35.3	20.7	11.9
Without central heating	10.2	9.1	8.5
Without sole use of bath, shower or toilet	0.0	0.2	0.5
Have no car or van	12.5	26.2	26.8
Have 2 or more cars or vans	37.1	23.1	29.4
Average household size (number)	2.3	2.2	2.4
Average number of rooms per household	5.9	5.3	5.3

 

	Berwick-upon-Tweed		England & Wales
	Average price	Percentage of households living in this type of property	Average price	Percentage of households living in this type of property
Detached	122,061.0	24.8	178,806.0	22.8
Semi-detached	62,629.0	34.5	101,733.0	31.6
Terraced	60,108.0	29.0	89,499.0	26.0
Flat	43,122.0	11.5	120,185.0	19.2
All property types	77,617.0		119,436.0

Area Statistics

Levels Of Crime in Berwick-upon-Tweed

	Violence against the person	Sexual offences	Robbery	Burglary from a dwelling	Theft of a motor vehicle	Theft from a motor vehicle
Total number of offences recorded, Berwick-upon-Tweed	165	16	1	65	37	83
Rate per 1,000 population, Berwick-upon-Tweed	6.2	0.6	0.0	2.5	1.4	3.1
Rate per 1,000 population, England and Wales	11.4	0.7	1.8	7.6	6.4	11.9

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About this summary

1. In some cases the data shown in this summary may have been rounded and figures shown may differ slightly from those published elsewhere. Due to rounding of percentages, the addition of categories may not sum to exactly 100 per cent in all cases. It should also be noted that in some cases, different tables may show different counts for the same population, due to disclosure protection measures used to prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information about identifiable individuals. Figures quoted should therefore be used for guidance only.

2. These summary statistics are based on administrative ward boundaries legally in force at the end of 2002, which includes ward boundaries that became operative in a number of Local Authorities in May 2003, and some others that will become operative in May 2004.

3. The symbol ".." is used to indicate that the value is not available.

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Source: National Statistics website (http://www.statistics.gov.uk)