Output Area (OA)
Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LLSOA)
Deprivation and Percentiles
Community Planning Areas
IMD 2004 - Census Super Output Areas
Output Area (OA)
An output area is the basic 2001 Census building block. It consists of around 100 to 150 households. There are 889 such output areas in the City in the 2001 Census, covering 111,243 households. They are made up of groups of full-postcode areas, but nested within a local authority Census ward. That is, a postcode area will be split into two or more areas if it is in two or more wards.
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Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LLSOA)
A Lower Layer Super Output Area is groups of output areas, also nested within 2001 Census wards. There are 173 such areas in the City, covering on average nearly 650 households and 1500 people. These Lower Layer Super Output Areas are referred to as super output areas in the main report.
Map of the Super Output Areas of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Index of Deprivation 2004
This index has been calculated at LLSOA level; thus each LLSOA has a score on each of the domains and the final indices.
Deprivation and Percentiles
In the main part of the report we have concentrated on the percentiles. That is we have examined the super output area data in terms of which percentile the super output areas in Newcastle fall, within all of the English percentiles. For example, since there are 173 super output areas in the City, we would expect, other things being equal, that 17 of these super output areas would be in the most deprived 10%.
Where there are more than 17 super output areas, amongst the 10% most deprived, in a particular domain (for example, in health and employment domains) the City is relatively deprived on the indicators making up that domain.
Conversely, where there are fewer than 17 super output areas amongst the 10% most deprived in a particular domain (for example, in barriers to housing and living environment domains) the City is relatively affluent on the indicators making up that domain.
In the report we have also used the following groupings:
a) most deprived 10%; these super output areas are considered the most deprived within the country. Newcastle has 54 super output areas, on the main index, in this band.
b) 10% to 20%; these areas are not as deprived as in most deprived areas within the City; they will exhibit some of the characteristics of the most deprived areas, but to a lesser extent. The City has 24 super output areas, on the main index, in this group.
c) 20% to 30%; these 18 areas are less deprived than the previous group; whilst they are in the more deprived than the average for the City, they are the norm for the City as a whole with 78 areas more deprived and 77 less deprived than these areas.
d) 30% to 50%; there are 22 areas, on the main index, in the City which are in this group; they are marginally more deprived than the national average.
e) finally, we have used 50% to 100%; there are 55 areas, on the main index, in the City in this group. These areas are in terms as a whole, relatively affluent, although very few of these just 16 are in the top 20% (80% to 100%).
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Community Planning Areas
The following wards make up the six Community Planning areas/Area committees within the City:
Gosforth and North Newcastle - Castle, East Gosforth, Parklands, West Gosforth
Inner East - Dene, North Heaton, North Jesmond, South Jesmond
North Central - Blakelaw, Fawdon, Kenton
Outer East - Byker, Ouseburn, South Heaton, Walker, Walkergate
Outer West - Denton, Lemington, Newburn, Westerhope, Woolsington
Inner West - Benwell and Scotswood, Elswick, Fenham, Westgate, Wingrove
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IMD 2004 - Census Super Output Areas in Newcastle upon Tyne
The blue lines on the map mark current ward boundaries within Newcastle upon Tyne. The yellow line marks the boundary of a Super Output Area. The Super Output Areas often fall within more than one ward.