Resident Population and Age

The resident population of Spittal, as measured in the 2001 Census, was 3,065 of which 47 per cent were male and 53 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.

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Under 16	22.2	17.1	20.2
16 to 19	5.4	4.4	4.9
20 to 29	11.1	8.4	12.6
30 to 59	41.9	41.7	41.5
60 to 74	12.7	18.2	13.3
75 and over	6.8	10.2	7.6
Average age	37.6	43.5	38.6

Marital Status

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Single (never married)	25.4	22.1	30.1
Married or re-married	51.9	56.9	50.9
Separated	3.2	2.3	2.4
Divorced	9.7	7.7	8.2
Widowed	9.8	11.0	8.4

Ethnic Group

	Spittal	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

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Christian	80.3	82.4	71.8
Buddhist	0.1	0.1	0.3
Hindu	0.0	0.0	1.1
Jewish	0.1	0.0	0.5
Muslim	0.0	0.0	3.0
Sikh	0.0	0.0	0.6
Other religions	0.1	0.2	0.3
No religion	11.7	10.8	14.8
Religion not stated	7.7	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'.

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Good	66.4	65.1	68.6
Fairly good	25.0	25.4	22.2
Not good	8.6	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.

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
With a limiting long-term illness	18.2	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.

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Provided unpaid care	8.5	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

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Employed	60.4	59.5	60.6
Unemployed	4.7	3.6	3.4
Economically active full-time students	1.9	1.4	2.6
Retired	14.6	19.0	13.6
Economically inactive students	2.4	2.3	4.7
Looking after home/family	6.7	5.9	6.5
Permanently sick or disabled	6.1	5.8	5.5
Other economically inactive	3.4	2.5	3.1

Within Spittal, 13 per cent of those unemployed were aged 50 and over, 7 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

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Total number of full-time students and schoolchildren aged 16 to 74	90	691	2,648,992
Percentage of total resident population	2.9	2.7	5.1
Total number aged 16 to 17	60	446	1,014,284
Total number aged 18 to 74	30	245	1,634,708

 

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
Had no qualifications	37.3	35.4	29.1
Qualified to degree level or higher	6.9	14.4	19.8

Housing and Households

In Spittal there were 1,284 households in 2001. 99 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.

	Spittal	Berwick-upon-Tweed	England and Wales
One person households	29.8	32.2	30.0
Pensioners living alone	17.4	18.7	14.4
Other All Pensioner households	7.8	12.4	9.4
Contained dependent children	34.6	24.2	29.5
Lone parent households with dependent children	10.0	4.6	6.5
Owner occupied	53.3	57.5	68.9
Rented from Council	34.7	19.0	13.2
Rented from Housing Association or Registered Social Landlord	3.6	2.8	6.0
Private rented or lived rent free	8.4	20.7	11.9
Without central heating	8.5	9.1	8.5
Without sole use of bath, shower or toilet	0.2	0.2	0.5
Have no car or van	39.9	26.2	26.8
Have 2 or more cars or vans	12.2	23.1	29.4
Average household size (number)	2.4	2.2	2.4
Average number of rooms per household	4.8	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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Source: National Statistics website (http://www.statistics.gov.uk)