Maltby East ward

Ward description

Population

Ethnicity

Housing and Households

Employment, Benefits and Pension

General Health and Disability

Lifestyles and Specific Health Issues

Education

Crime and Anti-social Behaviour

Index of Multiple Deprivation 2015 and 2019

Data sources

Description

Maltby East ward lies in the east of the Borough with a population of 9,434 (2019 population estimate). Maltby is a small, former mining town with 16,500 residents. Maltby East is co-terminus with the East Ward of Maltby Town Council (total Town population 16,472). The ward has fairly high levels of deprivation, especially in the south east of the town.

Coal mining was a major local employer but Maltby Main, the last coal mine in Rotherham, closed in 2013. Apart from the urban area of Maltby, the ward covers a large but very sparsely populated rural area, including Roche Abbey, a Cistercian monastery founded in 1147.

Population by Age

Population change since 2011: -94 (-1%) (Rotherham +3.2%)

The population of Maltby East ward has hardly changed since 2011 in contrast to the increasing borough population.  The age structure of the population is significantly younger than the Rotherham average with the percentage of children aged 0-15 being well above average.

Ethnicity

Official population ethnicity data is collected and analysed every ten years as part of the National Census. Unfortunately, this breakdown is not included within the annual mid-year estimate statistics published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

Local populations can change significantly during the lifetime of this dataset. Therefore, as a local proxy we utilise the annual School and Pupil Census data to create an estimation of the current ethnicity breakdown.

The table below provides the ward analysis of both the 2011 census and latest School and Pupil census by the ethnic groupings used by the ONS.

Maltby East is among the 80% of wards in Rotherham where the white British population exceeds 90%, and the 60% of wards where the 2020 School and Pupil Census shows white British exceeding 90%.

Housing and Households

Dwellings in 2020: 4,375 (4,060 in 2011), Households in 2020: 4,413 (4,060 in 2011)

The number of dwellings in Maltby East has increased by 315 (8%) since 2011 and there are 353 more households (9%). In 2020, there are 38 households than dwellings in Maltby East indicating a housing shortage in the ward.

Maltby East has a diverse housing stock with a relatively high proportion of terraced houses which are of mixed tenure with almost half being rented. Most households (54%) are owner occupied but the private rented sector is larger than average, and a significant proportion of social rented housing is rented from housing associations.

Council Rented Properties in 2020: 553 (498 houses and 55 flats), 13.6% of dwellings.

Employment, Benefits and Pensions

There is a low proportion of local employment in production industries and a high proportion employed in Education and the largest employer being motor trades, wholesale, and retail. Employment levels in the ward depend on opportunities in other areas as local jobs were only sufficient for 26% of the working age population.

Benefits and Pensions (ONS)

The proportion of people claiming benefits in Maltby East is well above the Rotherham average.

Child Poverty 2019 (DWP)

Child poverty in Maltby East is well above the Borough average.

General Health and Disability

General Health bad or very bad (2011): 9.3% (Rotherham 7.6%, England 5.5%)

Limiting Long Term Illness or Disability (2011): 24.3% (Rotherham 22%, England 17.6%)

Maltby had rates of poor health and disability above the Borough average in 2011 and much higher than the national average, reflected in higher claim rates for disability benefits.

Lifestyle and Specific Health Issues

Over 80% of health and lifestyle indicators are worse (have higher rates) than Rotherham average. Additionally, two-thirds of indicators are significantly worse, particularly in terms of higher rates of emergency hospital admissions and premature deaths. The period the data relates to is shown as (a) to (f) below and explained in the notes.

Compared to Rotherham average, Malty East ward is better (has lower rates/less):

Smoking prevalence at 15 years regular and regular or occasional (2014).

In contrast Maltby East ward is worse for (has higher rates/more):

Admissions for injuries in 15 to 24 year olds and in under 15s (f); children with excess weight reception year and obese children in reception year (e); deaths from all cancer all ages, from all cancer under 75 years, from all causes all ages, from all causes under 75 years, from causes considered preventable, from circulatory disease all ages, from circulatory disease under 75 years, from coronary heart disease all ages and from respiratory diseases all ages all persons (c); emergency hospital admissions for all causes, CHD, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) and stroke (d); hospital stays for alcohol related harm (Broad and Narrow definition) and self-harm (d); incidence of breast cancer, colorectal cancer and  prostate cancer (a); limiting long-term illness or disability (2011).

Maltby East ward has lower (worse) life expectancy at birth compared to Rotherham overall (4.2 years less life expectancy for men and 2.4 years less for women) (c).

The Top 5 better and worse indicators are shown below (see Notes):

Better than Rotherham average

Smoking prevalence at 15 years Regular (2014) 5.6 Rotherham 7.2

Smoking prevalence at 15 years Regular or Occasional (2014) 8.8 Rotherham 10

Obese Children Year 6 (2015/16-2017-18) 20.8 Rotherham 22.3

Emergency admissions in under 5s (2013/14-2015/16) 149.7 Rotherham 160.4

Admissions for injuries in under 5s (2011/12-2015/16) 130.2  134.1

Worse than Rotherham average

Emergency hospital admissions for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (2013/14-2017/18) 308.4 Rotherham 168.1

Hospital stays for self-harm (2013/14-2017/18) 129.5 Rotherham 84.3

Deaths from causes considered preventable (2013-2107) 172.6 Rotherham 114.7

Deaths from all causes under 75 years (2013-2017) 162.6 Rotherham 115.9

Deaths from circulatory disease under 75 years (2013-2017) 166 Rotherham 119.4

Notes 

Hospital admissions, cancer incidence and death rates are standardised to England (England = 100) 

A ratio less than 100 is relatively better, more than 100 is relatively worse. 

These are based on 5 years data to produce robust rates at ward level. 

Cancer incidence data based on 2012-2016, children emergency admissions/A&E attendances 2013/14-2015/16, deaths 2013-2017, hospital admissions/stays/emergency admissions 2013/14-2017/18, children’s weight indicators 2015/16-2017-18, admissions for injury (children) 2011/12-2015/16.

Data periods: (a) 2012-2016 (b) 2013/14-2015/16 (c) 2013-2017 (d) 2013/14-2017/18 (e) 2015/16-2017/18 (f) 2011/12-2015/16. 

Data represents persons all ages unless otherwise specified. 

*Modelled prevalence (based on socio-demographic profile and small area population data) 

**Persons aged under 75. 

‘better’ and ‘worse’ based on differences over 10% from Rotherham average. 

Top 5 – Based on statistically significant or largest differences from Rotherham value. Ordering difficult due to comparing different measures (rates, percentages, ratios, life expectancy) 

Covid-19

Number of residents who tested positive for Covid-19
 (1st January 2020 – 21st March 2021)

Maltby East ward has below average infection rates for Rotherham and ranks 15th out of the 25 wards.

Education

Local Secondary School: Maltby Academy

Early Years – Good Level of Development - 2019: 69.6% (Rotherham 70.3%, England 71.8) 

Key Stage 2 – Reached an expected level in Reading, Writing & Maths - 2019:

49.6% (Rotherham 59%, England 65%) 

GCSE attainment in English & Maths - pass at 9-4 level (A*-C) - 2019

36.6% (Rotherham average 51.9%)

Primary and secondary attainment in 2019 was below the Rotherham averages.

Highest Level of Qualification (2011 Census):

Level 4 or higher 7.8% (Rotherham 17.4%, England 27.4%)

No Qualifications 29.4% (Rotherham 29.8%, England 22.5%)

Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Recorded Crime (2020): 1120 (119 per 1,000 population) (Rotherham 90 per 1,000)

Recorded ASB (2020): 322 (34 per 1,000 population) (Rotherham 25 per 1,000)

Levels of recorded crime and ASB in Maltby East are more than the Rotherham average.

Index of Multiple Deprivation 2015 & 2019

The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is a Government index for all areas in England. The 2019 index uses 37 indicators across 7 deprivation domains (themes) with a 2013/14 baseline. The IMD is only produced for Lower-level Super Output Areas (SOAs) of which there are 167 in Rotherham (around 8 per ward) and 32,844 in England, each with around 1,500 people. SOAs are ranked across England where 1 is the most deprived. Any rank below 3,285 indicates that an area is within the 10% most deprived areas of England.

Deprivation in Maltby East

Deprivation in Maltby East is well above the Borough average and in most of the ward is also well above the national average. There are 3 neighbourhoods which are more deprived than the ward average. Maltby East - Muglet Lane, Maltby East - Town Centre and Maltby East - Birks Holt are all within the most deprived 10% of England.

Income deprivation is above average in Maltby East for all age groups. Children are more likely to be affected by income deprivation than adults, with the level being well above the Borough average.

Data Sources

2011 Census, ward population estimates: Office for National Statistics

Employment data: Business Register and Employment Survey, ONS (via NOMIS)

Benefit data: Department for Work and Pensions (via NOMIS)

Child poverty data: HM Revenue and Customs

Local Health Indicators: Public Health England. For non-commercial use only.

Hospital Admissions: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

Modelled smoking prevalence estimates: University of Essex, Office for National Statistics and other sources.

Mortality: Office for National Statistics. (ONS)

Dwellings, households, council benefits, educational attainment: Rotherham MBC

Crime and ASB: South Yorkshire Police

Indices of Deprivation 2015 & 2019: Department for Communities and Local Government

Office for National Statistics sources licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.

Rotherham School and Pupil Census (January 2020)

Public Health England Covid-19 Situation Awareness Explorer (22/03/2021)