Appendix M Chester Socio-Demographic Analysis continued

Deprivation

Table 1.1 below sets out how the study area performs compared to the wider CWaC area and England in terms of its overall IMD ranking. Over 50% of residents in the study area live in areas of relatively high deprivation. It is also home to notably fewer residents in the least deprived quintile than the wider CWaC area and England.

Figure 1.2 below denotes the percentage of the study area’s population by quintile / indices. It shows that for Education and Barriers to Housing the study area performs well. This suggests residents are generally well educated, skilled, and have good access to housing physically and financially. In contrast, the study area performs poorly in terms of health, which relates to premature death and the impairment of quality of life by poor health and disability, crime, and living environment. The living environment indices relates to quality of housing and other measures such as air quality and road traffic accidents.