Ferndown

Ferndown is the largest settlement in East Dorset. It's town centre houses a modern shopping complex, large playing fields and sports facilities, and internationally famous Ferndown Golf Club.

Communications

Ferndown is well positioned near to the A31 Trunk road, together with good access to Bournemouth and Poole. The town is in close proximity to Bournemouth Airport.

Population

Latest population figure (2011 Census) for the town (Ferndown Parish) is 17,839

Age	Ferndown (number)	Ferndown (%)	Dorset-DCC area (%)	England & Wales (%)
0-4	705	4.0	4.7	6.2
5-9	670	3.8	4.8	5.6
10-14	801	4.5	5.6	5.8
15-19	927	5.2	5.8	6.3
20-24	716	4.0	4.7	6.8
25-29	619	3.5	4.1	6.8
30-34	617	3.5	4.3	6.6
35-39	729	4.1	5.2	6.7
40-44	1,015	5.7	6.6	7.3
45-49	1,217	6.8	7.3	7.3
50-54	1,167	6.5	6.9	6.4
55-59	1,104	6.2	6.6	5.7
60-64	1,489	8.3	8.0	6.0
65-69	1,402	7.9	6.9	4.8
70-74	1,265	7.1	5.6	3.9
75-79	1,257	7.0	4.9	3.2
80-84	1,050	5.9	3.9	2.4
85+	1,089	6.1	3.9	2.2
total	17,839	100	100	100

Selected age groups

Age	Ferndown (number)	Ferndown (%)	Dorset-DCC area (%)	England & Wales (%)
Young people 0 to 17	2,753	15.4	18.8	21.3
Young adults 18 to 29	1,685	9.4	10.9	16.2
Older people 65 plus	6,063	34.0	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)	1,860	2,500	4,200	6,530	11,750	15,470	15,930	16,080	17,839

Source: ONS

Education

Ferndown pyramid area:
10 primary schools, 3 middle schools,
1 upper school.
The secondary school for the area
Ferndown Upper School
(983 pupils- 2011)

For more information on Ferndown Upper School (opens in a new window)

Commercial land

Between 1994-10, 14.4 hectares of land has been developed in Ferndown. The total area of land with permission or allocated in the local plan is 10.3 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
Ferndown (inc West Parley)	5.5	3.4	8.1	2.1	5.3	n/a	1.9	1.5	2.4	2.1
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 Ferndown (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	19	25	28	126	215	94	74	39	61	38	26	21	34	66	32

Note: Figures allow for losses from re-development etc. Method revised 2009

The 2011 Census records 8,386 dwellings in Ferndown.
Since 2011, a further 32 units have been built giving a total of 8,418. At March 2012 a further 97 units have permission and 200 are allocated in the local plan.

Index of deprivation, 2010

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

SOA - Super Output Area (minimum 400 households or 1,000 population)

SOA	Multiple	Income	Employment	Health	Education & Skills	Housing & Services	Crime	Living
Ferndown Coppice & Clayford	173	117	181	156	79	95	177	207
Ferndown Glenmoor	240	230	227	196	224	185	236	212
Ferndown Golf Links North	243	218	201	233	235	236	189	214
Ferndown Leeson	192	166	177	228	65	102	172	216
Ferndown Pennington's	113	52	43	93	89	233	182	204
Ferndown Pinewood	231	238	154	204	204	161	244	227
Ferndown St Marys	149	87	51	121	135	244	136	168
Ferndown The Warren	185	124	128	169	189	126	233	175
Ferndown Tricketts Cross	27	18	28	47	10	123	102	166
Ferndown Tricketts Cross East	21	10	33	145	3	58	128	121
Longham	202	186	167	213	160	144	66	187
Parley	244	237	225	245	200	192	218	237
Parley Cross	217	221	195	191	133	176	135	172

Please see The Index of Deprivation, 2010 for detailed information and mapping.

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

Socio-economic classifications: 2010 ACORN

Classification	DCC Dorset	Ferndown
% Wealthy Achievers	40.1	56.0
% Urban Prosperity	7.1	0.3
% Comfortably Off	33.2	30.8
% Moderate Means	9.2	4.9
% Hard Pressed	10.2	8.1
% unclassified	0.2	0.0

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 profile of the town is available including maps of the five wards. You can access the Ferndown ACORN profile (pdf, 1Mb) (opens in a new window) for this 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	£324,068	£365,540	74	344,466	50
Semi-detached	£219,342	£238,142	7	204,600	5
Terraced	£169,562	£207,449	10	167,490	5
Flats/maisonettes	£175,261	£207,254	32	202,043	26

Land Registry average prices (Prices may be affected by low number of sales). Figures relate to postcode sectors BH22 8, BH22 9

Tenure - 2011 Census

% of all households

Area	Owner occupied (%)	Shared ownership (%)	Social rented (%)	Private rented (%)	Living rent free (%)
Ferndown	82.5	0.4	8.1	8.2	0.7

Source: ONS

Area

Approx 'built-up' area = 700 hectares (1,730 acres)

Local authority revenue

Council tax band D for Year	council tax payable
12/13	£1,637.26
11/12	£1,641.13
10/11	£1,640.99
09/10	£1,589.71
08/09	£1,528.60
07/08	£1,462.83
06/07	£1,395.31
05/06	£1,326.08
04/05	£1,274.90
03/04	£1,197.25
02/03	£1,050.16
01/02	£949.03
00/01	£894.80
99/00	£851.20

Second/Holiday and Empty Homes, 2011

Total dwellings on Council Tax Register	8,350
Total number of second homes	65
Second homes as a % of total dwellings	0.77
Total number of long term empty properties	55
Empty homes as a % of total dwellings	0.63

Source: Council Tax Register (parish figure, rounded)

Ethnicity (%) - 2011Census

	Ferndown	East Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
% white British	95.5	96.2	95.5
% Black and minority ethnic groups (BME)	4.5	3.8	4.5

Source: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census

Country of birth (%) - 2011 Census

	Ferndown	East Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
% born in England	91.2	91.8	91.0
% born rest of UK	3.5	3.3	3.4
% born in Rep of IRE	0.5	0.4	0.4
% born EU (member countries in 2001)	1.1	1.2	1.3
% born EU (Accession countries April 2001 to March 2011)	0.5	0.4	0.7
% born elsewhere	3.3	2.9	3.1

Source: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census

Health - 2011 Census (% of population)

Health Limiting day-to-day Activities

	Ferndown	East Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
Day-to-day activities limited a lot (%)	10.6	8.2	8.6
limited a little(%)	13.3	11.5	11.5
not limited(%)	76.1	80.3	79.9
limited a lot: Age 16 to 64(%)	2.6	2.3	2.9
limited a little: Age 16 to 64(%)	4.1	3.9	4.5
not limited: Age 16 to 64(%)	46.0	50.3	51.1

General Health

	Ferndown	East Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
Very good health(%)	40.2	45.3	44.6
Good health(%)	36.8	35.8	35.9
Fair health(%)	17.2	14.3	14.5
Bad health(%)	4.7	3.6	3.9
Very bad health(%)	1.1	1.0	1.1

Provision of Unpaid Care

	Ferndown	East Dorset	Dorset (DCC area)
Provides no unpaid care(%)	86.8	87.5	88.1
Provides 1 to 19 hours unpaid care a week(%)	8.5	8.5	8.1
Provides 20 to 49 hours unpaid care a week(%)	1.4	1.3	1.3
Provides 50 or more hours unpaid care a week(%)	3.2	2.6	2.5

Source: ONS 2011 Census

Retail profile - total town floorspace

91shops/103,000sq.ft. (2005)
(excludes 'out of town shops')

Town centre:

Mainly local shops but includes nationals such as Boots, Iceland and Tesco.

Catchment population:

The shopping catchment for Ferndown (major food shopping) extends under 2 miles in a N,S,E,& W direction. The population within the catchment is around 28,100 (mid 2001).

Library - Number of issues of books

Library	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Ferndown	230,889	219,886	209,631	190,233
West Moors Mobile	n/a	25,921	24,172	21,445

Industrial estates

Ferndown Industrial estate (45.0h), Uddens Trading Estate (4.3h), East Dorset Trade Park (13.5ha)

Unemployment % (persons) - Ferndown and West Parley

Proportion of resident population aged 16-64 and actual number

Year	Male	Female	Total
July 1998	2.2 (65)	1.5 (34)	1.9 (99)
July 1999	2.2 (65)	1.4 (31)	1.8 (96)
July 2000	2.1 (64)	0.8 (18)	1.6 (82)
July 2001	1.5 (46)	0.4 (10)	1.1 (56)
July 2002	1.5 (48)	0.5 (13)	1.1 (61)
July 2003	1.3 (43)	0.5 (12)	0.9 (55)
July 2004	0.9 (49)	0.3 (17)	0.6 (66)
July 2005	1.0 (53)	0.5 (28)	0.8 (81)
July 2006	1.1 (56)	0.4 (25)	0.7 (81)
July 2007	0.9 (48)	0.3 (18)	0.6 (66)
July 2008	1.0 (55)	0.5 (30)	0.8 (85)
July 2009	3.2 (171)	1.0 (59)	2.1 (230)
July 2010	2.2 (116)	0.9 (49)	1.5 (165)
July 2011	1.9 (102)	0.9 (53)	1.4 (155)

Of July 2009 unemployment figures, the long term unemployed = 6.1%
Of July 2010 unemployment figures, the long term unemployed = 15.3%
Of July 2011 unemployment figures, the long term unemployed = 8.4%

Rates for wards from 2011 onwards are calculated using mid 2010 resident population aged 16-64

The wider economy of the area

To see an economic profile of the wider East Dorset area follow this link to the East Dorset Economy & Labour Market Profile 2011 (pdf, 1Mb) (opens in a new window) .

2010 employment

Total number of people working in the town: 11,500 Number of firms (excluding the self-employed):980 (2009)

Work pattern/gender category	Percentage
Full-time	69%
Part-time	31%

Type of employment	Percentage
Production and construction	26
Distribution, accommodation and food	36
Other market services	17
Public Admin, education and health	17
Other services	4

Source: Annual Source: Business Register and Employment Survey, 2010, ONS

Major employers

Dorset County Council, Dorset Health Authority, Synergy Housing Association, Haskins Garden Centre, Marden Edwards, Keith Spicer Ltd, Sainsburys, Tesco.

Traffic Counts in the wider Ferndown area - annual average daily traffic

Road	Location	AADF (Annual Average Daily Traffic)						Percentage Growth Since
No.		1983	1990	2001	2006	2010	2011	2010	2006	2001	1990	1983
								1 Year	5 Years	10 Years	21 Years	27 Years
A31(T)	Ferndown By Pass (West)	Not Built	13,700	21,100	22,900	22,100	21,400	-3.2%	-7%	1%	56%	n/a
C50	Stapehill	17,800	11,400	11,400	10,900	10,500	9,900	-5.7%	-9%	-13%	-13%	-44%
B3072	South of Three Legged Cross	5,500	7,900	8,800	9,300	9,200	9,500	3.3%	2%	8%	20%	73%
A31(T)	St.Leonards	21,100	32,900	45,000	48,300	45,200	45,500	0.7%	-6%	1%	38%	116%
B3073	East Parley	10,500	14,800	18,600	19,200	19,900	19,600	1.5%	2%	5%	32%	87%
A347	New Road, West Parley	14,600	19,600	20,200	22,100	21,900	21,200	-3.2%	-4%	5%	8%	45%
A348	Longham	20,800	23,800	22,200	22,600	21,900	22,800	4.1%	11%	3%	-4%	10%
B3073	Ham Lane, Canford Bottom	8,000	10,600	11,300	12,100	12,100	10,900	-9.9%	-10%	-4%	3%	36%