Rother Vale 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

Rother Vale ward is situated in the South West of Rotherham with a population of 9,167 (2019 population estimates). The ward is represented by two members of the Council.

Rother Vale is served by three parish councils, Catcliffe (population 2568) in the north of the ward, Treeton (population 3,311) in the east of the ward and Waverley Community Council (with a growing population currently estimated at 1,400) in the west. 

Waverley includes a large-scale housing development being built over a 20-year period (2012-32), and new industry at the Advanced Manufacturing Park. Waverley was the site of the British Steel Corporation Orgreave coking plant, where confrontation between the police and pickets engaged in the 1984 miners’ strike, has been described as one of the most violent clashes in British industrial history.

The most deprived part of the ward is the former mining community of Treeton.

Population by Age

Population change since 2011: + 2050 (+28.8%) (Rotherham +3.2%)

The population of Rother Vale ward has increased significantly since 2011 due to large housing developments.  The age structure of the population is younger than the Rotherham average, which reflects the new housing developments attracting young families to the area.

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.

Rother Vale is among the 80% of wards in Rotherham where the white British population exceeds 90%. However, the 2020 School and Pupil Census shows BAME heritage accounting for over 10%.

Housing and Households

Dwellings in 2020: 3,694 (2,899 in 2011), Households in 2020: 4,248 (2,899 in 2011)

The number of dwellings in Rother Vale has increased by 795 (+27%) since 2011 and there are 1,349 more households (+47%). Both household and dwelling growth is well above borough averages due to large housing development schemes in Catcliffe and Waverley in the past 10 years.

Most housing is Rother Vale is owner occupied detached and semi-detached. The proportion of private rented housing is average, with more social rented dwellings.

Council Rented Properties in 2020: 549 (417 houses and 132 flats), 15% of dwellings.

Employment, Benefits and Pensions

Rother Vale has high proportion of workplaces in manufacturing, professional, scientific, and technical services, which reflects the Advanced Manufacturing Park, and a low proportion in public services. The number of jobs based in the ward is above borough average, being equal to 73% of the local working age population.

Benefits and Pensions (ONS)

The proportion of working age people claiming benefits in Rother Vale is below the Rotherham average.

Child Poverty 2019 (DWP)

Child poverty in Rotherham West is well below the Borough averages.

General Health and Disability

General Health bad or very bad (2011): 7.8% (Rotherham 7.6%, England 5.5%)

Limiting Long Term Illness or Disability (2011): 22.2% (Rotherham 22%, England 17.6%)

Rother Vale had rates of poor health and disability just above the Borough average in 2011 but much higher than the national average, with a similar picture disability benefit claims.

Lifestyle and Specific Health Issues

Over 50% of health and lifestyle indicators are worse (have higher rates) than Rotherham average. Additionally, a quarter of indicators are significantly worse, particularly in terms of higher rates of deaths from coronary heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease and circulatory disease. The period the data relates to is shown as (a) to (f) below and explained in the notes.

Compared to Rotherham average, Rother Vale ward is better for (has lower rates/less):

Admissions for injuries in under 15s and for injuries in under 5s (f); emergency admissions in under 5s (b); emergency hospital admissions for CHD and Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) (d); hospital stays for alcohol related harm (broad and narrow definition) and for self-harm (d); incidence of colorectal and prostate cancer (a).

In contrast Rother Vale ward is worse for (has higher rates/more):

Deaths from all cancer all ages, deaths from all cancer under 75 years, deaths from all causes all ages, deaths from all causes under 75 years, deaths from causes considered preventable, deaths from circulatory disease all ages, circulatory disease under 75 years, coronary heart disease all ages, respiratory diseases all ages all persons, stroke all ages all persons (c); incidence of breast cancer (a).

Rother Vale ward has lower (worse) life expectancy at birth compared to Rotherham overall (0.9 years less life expectancy for men and 3.3 years less for women) (c).

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

Better than Rotherham average

Emergency hospital admissions for Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) (2013/14-2017-18) 82.7 Rotherham 112.1

Admissions for injuries in under 15s (2011/12-2105/16) 82.7 Rotherham 107

Emergency admissions in under 5s (2013/14-2015/16) 124.7 Rotherham 160.4

Admissions for injuries in under 5s (2011/12-2015/16) 107.7 Rotherham 134.1

Emergency hospital admissions for CHD (2013/14-3017/18) 93.1 Rotherham 115.1

Worse than Rotherham average

Deaths from coronary heart disease all ages (2013-2017) 178.9 Rotherham 114.9

Deaths from stroke all ages all persons (2013-2017) 145 Rotherham 97.3

Deaths from respiratory diseases all ages all persons (2013-2017) 196.7 Rotherham 132.8

Deaths from circulatory disease all ages (2013-2017) 162.1 Rotherham 110.1

Deaths from circulatory disease under 75 years (2013-2017) 170.6 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)

Rother Vale ward has well above average infection rates for Rotherham and ranks 4th out of the 25 wards.

Education

Local Secondary School: Aston Academy and Brinsworth Academy

Early Years – Good Level of Development - 2019: 78.8% (Rotherham 70.3%, England 71.8) 

Key Stage 2 – Reached an expected level in Reading, Writing & Maths - 2019: 69.0% (Rotherham 59%, England 65%) 

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

 56.7% (Rotherham average 51.9%)

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

Highest Level of Qualification (2011 Census):

Level 4 or higher 11.8% (Rotherham 17.4%, England 27.4%)

No Qualifications 17.5% (Rotherham 29.8%, England 22.5%)

Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Recorded Crime (2020): 638 (70 per 1,000 population) (Rotherham 90 per 1,000)

Recorded ASB (2020): 201 (22 per 1,000 population) (Rotherham 25 per 1,000)

Levels of recorded crime and ASB in Rother Vale are less 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 Rotherham West

Rother Vale is below the Borough average and in most of the ward is also well below the national average. There are 2 neighbourhoods which are more deprived than the ward average. Though no neighbourhoods are in most deprived 10% of England, Treeton West fell into the most 20% deprived neighbourhoods in England in 2019.

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

The IMD is not published for wards but the average SOA score in Rother Vale is 23 (22 in 2015), below the Rother Vale average score of 29 (28 in 2015), with an SOA equivalent rank of 14,317 (44th percentile).

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)