Chickerell

Chickerell is an urban area developed from a smaller village located just to the west of Weymouth. The area has seen rapid development over the past twenty years and now has a town council.

Communications

Chickerell is located on the B3157, just outside Weymouth. The nearest rail station is just over two miles away at Weymouth.

Population

Latest population figure (2011 Census) for the town (Chickerell Parish) is 5,515

Age	Chickerell (number)	Chickerell (%)	Dorset-DCC area (%)	England & Wales (%)
0-4	290	5.3	4.7	6.2
5-9	301	5.5	4.8	5.6
10-14	326	5.9	5.6	5.8
15-19	280	5.1	5.8	6.3
20-24	228	4.1	4.7	6.8
25-29	260	4.7	4.1	6.8
30-34	261	4.7	4.3	6.6
35-39	316	5.7	5.2	6.7
40-44	395	7.2	6.6	7.3
45-49	409	7.4	7.3	7.3
50-54	401	7.3	6.9	6.4
55-59	330	6.0	6.6	5.7
60-64	369	6.7	8.0	6.0
65-69	388	7.0	6.9	4.8
70-74	342	6.2	5.6	3.9
75-79	276	5.0	4.9	3.2
80-84	202	3.7	3.9	2.4
85+	141	2.6	3.9	2.2
total	5,515	100	100	100

selected age groups

	Chickerell (number)	Chickerell (%)	Dorset-DCC area(%)	England & Wales (%)
Young people 0 to 17	1,093	19.8	18.8	21.3
Young adults 18 to 29	592	10.7	10.9	16.2
Older people 65 plus	1,349	24.5	25.2	16.4

Source: Office for National statistics, 2011 Census

Historic Population

Year	1921	1931	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
Census population (enumerated)	1,130	1,320	2,450	2,300	3,300	3,680	4,160	5,280	5,515

Source: ONS

Education

Weymouth and Portland Pyramid Area:

3 infant schools
2 Junior Schools
14 primary schools ( inc.Chickerell Primary)
4 Secondary schools
2 special schools
The secondary school for the area - Budmouth Technology College (1,586 pupils- 2011) For further details on Budmouth Technology College (opens in a new window)

Commercial land

Between 1994-10, 8.7 hectares of land has been developed in Chickerell. The total area of land with permission and allocated in local plans is 9.3 hectares.

Crime

Domestic burglaries

Rate per 1,000 households

Area	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/2009	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12
Chickerell	1.7	3.5	2.2	4.8	0.4	n/a	4.3	2.6	1.3	3.0
DCC Dorset	6.6	6.6	6.5	5.7	4.4	n/a	4.1	3.8	3.7	3.4
South West	14.8	12.3	10.7	8.9	8.4	n/a	8.2	7.6	7.2	7.0
England and Wales	20.0	18.6 (GB)	14.4	13.5	13.1	n/a	12.2	11.6	11.1	10.5

Please note: Due to the low prevailing level of offences, and the often sporadic nature of burglary, rates for small geographical areas can vary significantly from year to year. Source: Dorset County Council

Other sources of crime data

Access the Police crime mapping Chickerell (opens in a new window) where you can find crime data on a month by month basis (starting December 2010) mapped to neighbourhood and street level. This looks at the crime types of burglary, anti-social behaviour, robbery, vehicle crime, violent crime and other crime. Note this comprehensive and up-to-date database only looks at numbers of crimes and not crime rates for individual crimes. It does give an overall crime rate (per 1,000 people) for the neighbourhood.

Housing growth

Year	98	99	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Housing development	56	66	55	7	10	23	24	2	24	14	11	2	6	22	1

The 2011 Census records 2,470 dwellings in Chickerell
Since 2011, a further 1 unit has been built giving a total of 2,471.
At March 2012, a further 62 units have permission and 200 have been allocated in the local plan.

Index of deprivation, 2010

(Figures show LSOA ranking out of 247 LSOAs in Dorset with 1 being the most deprived)

LSOA = Lower Super Output Area (minimum 400 households or 1,000 population)

LOSA	Multiple	Income	Employment	Health	Education & Skills	Housing & services	Crime	Living
Charlestown	96	88	68	64	92	83	110	153
Chickerell	93	59	57	73	87	184	75	161
Chickerell Environs	178	207	166	65	131	170	27	192
Chickerell Handborough & Littlesea	111	112	70	89	62	125	125	130

Click here for detailed information and mapping of the The Index of Deprivation, 2010

Source: DCLG

Poverty Indicators: Housing/Council Tax Benefit: March2013

Settlement	Benefit Population	Total Population	% Benefit Population (% of total settlement population)
Alderholt	282	3,171	8.9%
Beaminster	547	3,136	17.4%
Bere Regis	305	1,745	17.5%
Blandford	1,657	10,325	16.0%
Bridport	2,414	13,568	17.8%
Burton	631	4,177	15.1%
Charminster/Charlton Down	379	2,940	12.9%
Chickerell	895	5,515	16.2%
Christchurch	7,747	47,700	16.2%
Colehill	538	6,907	7.8%
Corfe Castle	190	1,355	14.0%
Corfe Mullen	948	10,133	9.4%
Crossways	385	2,267	17.0%
Dorchester	2,987	19,060	15.7%
Ferndown	2,300	17,839	12.9%
Gillingham	1,697	11,756	14.4%
Lyme Regis	527	3,671	14.4%
Lytchett Matravers	370	3,424	10.8%
Lytchett Minster/Upton	1,338	7,983	16.8%
Marnhull	245	1,998	12.3%
Portland	2,880	12,844	22.4%
Sandford	381	2,774	13.7%
Shaftesbury	969	7,314	13.2%
Sherborne	1,567	9,523	16.5%
St Leonards & St Ives	536	6,859	7.8%
Stalbridge	333	2,698	12.3%
Sturminster Marshall	199	1,969	10.1%
Sturminster Newton	664	4,292	15.5%
Swanage	1,571	9,601	16.4%
Verwood	1,653	14,852	11.1%
Wareham	907	5,496	16.5%
West Moors	981	7,561	13.0%
Weymouth	11,079	52,256	21.2%
Wimborne	1,268	6,790	18.7%
Wool	771	5,310	14.5%
Dorset ( DCC area)	-	-	-

Source: DCC

ACORN socio-economic classification, 2010

Classifications	Dorset	Chickerell
% Wealthy Achievers	40.1	33.3
% Urban Prosperity	7.1	0.2
% Comfortably Off	33.2	42.2
% Moderate Means	9.2	14.6
% Hard Pressed	10.2	9.8
% unclassified	0.2	0.0

Source:ACORN 2010

ACORN is a geodemographic segmentation of the UK's population which segments small neighbourhoods, postcodes, or consumer households into five categories, 17 groups and 56 types.
The five higher level categories, wealthy achievers, urban prosperity, comfortably off, moderate means and hard pressed are shown above.

A full ACORN profile of the town is available, including maps of the five wards in the town. You can access the Chickerell ACORN Profile (pdf, 608kb) (opens in a new window) for information.

Average house prices

Dwelling type	Average Price July - Sept 2009	Average Price July - Sept 2010	July - Sept 2010 (sales)	Average Price July - Sept 2012	July - Sept 2012 (sales)
Detached	£317,681	£280,142	7	£413,250	4
Semi-detached	n/a	£200,000	3	£167,666	3
Terraced	£167,500	£164,857	7	£146,666	6
Flats/maisonettes	n/a	n/a	0	n/a	0

Land Registry average prices.(Prices may be affected by low number of sales). House prices for the postcode sector DT3 4.

Tenure - 2011 Census

% of all households

Area	Owner occupied (%)	Shared ownership (%)	Social rented (%)	Private rented (%)	Living rent free (%)
Chickerell	75.6	0.4	12.0	11.0	1.0

Source: ONS

Area:

Approx. 'built-up' area = 76 hectares (188 acres)

Local Authority revenue

Council tax band D for Year	Council tax payable
12/13	£1,575.25
11/12	£1,573.23
10/11	£1,573.34
09/10	£1,525.54
08/09	£1,472.00
07/08	£1,407.95
06/07	£1,343.93
05/06	£1,282.45
04/05	£1,232.78
03/04	£1,163.20
02/03	£1,005.47
01/02	£918.76
00/01	£868.28
99/00	£817.18

Source: Dorset County Council

Second/holiday homes, 2011

Total dwellings on Council Tax Register	2,456
Total number of second homes	15
Second homes as a % of total dwellings	0.65
Total number of long term empty properties	15
Empty homes as a % of total dwellings	0.65

Source: Council Tax Register, Parish figures,rounded

Ethnicity (%) - 2011Census

	Chickerell	West Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
% white British	96.9	95.7	95.5
% Black and minority ethnic groups (BME)	3.1	4.3	4.5

Source: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census

Country of birth (%) - 2011 Census

	Chickerell	West Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
% born in England	93.2	91.3	91.0
% born rest of UK	3.1	3.1	3.4
% born in Rep of IRE	0.6	0.4	0.4
% born EU (member countries in 2001)	0.8	1.2	1.3
% born EU (Accession countries April 2001 to March 2011)	0.6	0.5	0.7
% born elsewhere	1.7	3.4	3.1

Source: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census

Health - 2011 Census (% of population)

Health Limiting day-to-day Activities

	Chickerell	West Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
Day-to-day activities limited a lot (%)	9.7	8.7	8.6
limited a little(%)	10.8	11.6	11.5
not limited(%)	79.5	79.7	79.9
limited a lot: Age 16 to 64(%)	3.2	2.9	2.9
limited a little: Age 16 to 64(%)	4.1	4.3	4.5
not limited: Age 16 to 64(%)	50.5	50.5	51.1

General Health

	Chickerell	West Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
Very good health(%)	43.5	44.4	44.6
Good health(%)	35.8	35.9	35.9
Fair health(%)	14.8	14.7	14.5
Bad health(%)	4.5	3.9	3.9
Very bad health(%)	1.4	1.1	1.1

Provision of Unpaid Care

	Chickerell	West Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
Provides no unpaid care(%)	88.9	88.0	88.1
Provides 1 to 19 hours unpaid care a week(%)	6.6	8.4	8.1
Provides 20 to 49 hours unpaid care a week(%)	1.3	1.2	1.3
Provides 50 or more hours unpaid care a week(%)	3.2	2.4	2.5

Source: ONS 2011 Census

Retail profile - total Town floorspace

Being on the edge of Weymouth, Chickerell only has a few local shops and other facilities.

Library - Number of issues of books etc

Library	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Chickerell	13,402	11,563	13,828	13,348

Industrial estates

Granby Industrial Estate (33.0h), Lynch Lane Industrial Estate (7.1h)

Unemployment % (persons)

Proportion of resident population aged 16-64 and actual number

Year	Male	Female	Total
July 1997	3.1 (42)	1.2 (13)	2.2 (55)
July 1998	2.0 (28)	1.3 (14)	1.7 (42)
July 1999	2.1 (29)	1.2 (14)	1.7 (43)
July 2000	1.7 (24)	0.5 (6)	1.2 (30)
July 2001	1.3 (18)	0.4 (5)	0.9(23)
July 2002	1.3 (21)	0.6 (8)	1.0 (29)
July 2003	1.3 (12)	0.9 (5)	1.1 (17)
July 2004	0.6 (9)	0.2 (3)	0.4 (12)
July 2005	1.1 (17)	0.2 (3)	0.6 (20)
July 2006	1.5 (24)	0.9 (14)	1.2 (38)
July 2007	1.2 (20)	0.5 (8)	0.9 (28)
July 2008	0.9 (14)	#(#)	0.5 (16)
July 2009	2.7 (42)	0.9 (14)	1.8 (56)
July 2010	2.0 (31)	1.0 (16)	1.5 (47)
July 2011	2.0 (31)	1.5 (23)	1.8 (54)

Of July 2009 unemployment figures, the long-term unemployed = 5.5%
Of July 2010 unemployment figures, the long-term unemployed = 25.5%
Of July 2010 unemployment figures, the long-term unemployed = 5.6%

# = confidential

The wider economy of the area

To see an economic profile of the wider West Dorset area follow this link to the West Dorset Economy & Labour Market Profile 2011 (pdf, 1005kb) (opens in a new window) .

2010 employment

Total number of people working in the town: 5,000
Number of firms (excluding the self employed): 300 (2009)

Work pattern/gender category	percentage
Full-time	72%
Part-time	28%

Type of employment	%
Production and construction	39
Distribution, accommodation and food	20
Other market services	12
Public administration, education and health	26
Other services	3