Southend Insights

Key information and intelligence about Southend residents and communities including population estimates and forecasts, census information, and the Index of Multiple Deprivation

• The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates the total population for Southend on sea as at mid 2010 is 165,300. Southend's population is projected to grow to 170,700 by 2015. ONS plan to publish headline population estimates based on the 2011 Census by the end of the summer 2012. (Source: ONS - 2010 Mid Year Estimates)

• The proportion of the population aged 65 and over is 18.3% (30,300). Belfairs ward has the highest proportion of it residents aged 65 and over within the borough with 27.5%. This compares to 9% for Westborough which has the lowest proportion aged 65 and over in Southend. (Source: ONS - 2010 Mid Year Estimates)

• By 2015 the projected proportion of the population aged 65 and over will be 19.7%, this equates to 33,600 people with 43.5% of these being male with 56.5% female. (Source: Projecting Older People Population Information website)

• The number of births in Southend between 2008-10 increased 8.6% on the figures for the previous three years (2005-07). (Source: ONS - Birth Summary Tables)

• 29.9% of Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in Southend are classified as falling within the 30% most deprived area's in the country, using ONS population figures this equates to just over 50,000 residents. Southend also has 8.4% of LSOA's (just over 14,000 residents) that fall within the 10% most deprived in the country. (Source: Communities and Local Government - 2010 Indices Multiple Deprivation)

• Westborough is the most densely populated ward in Southend with an estimated 10,993 people living within 92 hectares - 119.5 people per hectare. This compares to just under 40 people per hectare for Southend as a whole. (Source: ONS - Neighbourhood Statistics)

• There are over 100 different languages spoken within Southend schools. The top six non-English languages spoken in Southend schools are: Bengali, Polish, Urdu, Czech, Shona and Chinese. (Source: Southend 2011 Annual School Census)

• Office for National Statistics estimates based on the 2001 Census suggest that as at mid 2009, 14.3% of residents in Southend were non white-British. (Source: ONS - 2009 Experimental Estimates)

• In Jan 2011, 20.7% of pupils within Southend schools were classified as being non white-British. (Source: Southend 2011 Annual School Census)