Lytchett Minster/Upton

Lytchett Minster and Upton are located to the north west of the town of Poole. Lytchett Minster is a small rural village, whereas Upton is a much larger suburban area, built up significantly during the 1970s and 1980's. Upton has its own facilities including a variety of shops and a library.

Communications

Lytchett Minster/Upton are well positioned near the A35, to the north west of the town of Poole. The A350 provides a road link to the north. The nearest railway station is Hamworthy, two kilometres to the south.

Population

Latest population figure (2011 Census) for the town (Lychett Minster Parish) is 7,983

Age	Lytchett Minster/Upton (number)	Lytchett Minster/Upton (%)	Dorset-DCC area (%)	England & Wales (%)
0-4	429	5.4	4.7	6.2
5-9	448	5.6	4.8	5.6
10-14	464	5.8	5.6	5.8
15-19	494	6.2	5.8	6.3
20-24	390	4.9	4.7	6.8
25-29	420	5.3	4.1	6.8
30-34	407	5.1	4.3	6.6
35-39	468	5.9	5.2	6.7
40-44	569	7.1	6.6	7.3
45-49	633	7.9	7.3	7.3
50-54	545	6.8	6.9	6.4
55-59	478	6.0	6.6	5.7
60-64	620	7.8	8.0	6.0
65-69	479	6.0	6.9	4.8
70-74	390	4.9	5.6	3.9
75-79	329	4.1	4.9	3.2
80-84	222	2.8	3.9	2.4
85+	198	2.5	3.9	2.2
total	7,983	100	100	100

selected age groups

Age	Lytchett Minster/Upton (number)	Lytchett Minster/Upton (%)	Dorset-DCC area (%)	England & Wales (%)
Young people 0 to 17	1,667	20.9	18.8	21.3
Young adults 18 to 29	978	12.3	10.9	16.2
Older people 65 plus	1,618	20.3	25.2	16.4

Source: Office for National Statistics(ONS), 2011 Census

Historic Population

Year	1921	1931	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2012
Census population	1,140	1,320	2,380	3,200	5,010	6,480	7,170	7,570	7,983

Source: ONS

Education

Lychett Minster pyramid area:
One primary school, one infant school, one junior school, one secondary school

The secondary school for the area:
Lychett Minster Secondary School (1,295 pupils- 2011) For more information on Lytchett Minster School (opens in a new window)

Commercial land

Between 1994-10, 0.15 hectares of industrial land has been developed in Lychett Minster/Upton. The total area of land with permission and allocated in the local plan is 0.0 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
Lytchett Minster/Upton	n/a	n/a	4.0	7.1	3.4	n/a	5.0	2.2	1.2	5.0
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 Lytchett Minster/Upton (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	9	8	9	9	7	6	5	13	48	38	42	3	8	11	13

The 2011 Census records 3,474 dwellings in Lychett Minster/Upton. Since 2011, a further 13 units have been built giving a total of 3,487. At March 2012, a further 3 units have permission and 70 have been allocated in the local plan.

Note Figures allow for losses from redevelopment etc. Method revised 2009

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)

SOA	Multiple	Income	Employ ment	health	Education & Skills	Housing & services	Crime	Living
Upton Wood	53	35	94	62	14	173	56	82
Upton & Beacon Heath	42	24	56	55	39	162	34	83
Upton East	162	126	188	133	68	129	88	170
Lytchett Minster & Lytchett Bay	159	217	189	175	125	55	53	124
Upton West	155	122	169	188	52	163	138	118

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	Lychett Minster & Upton
% Wealthy Achievers	40.1	34.5
% Urban Prosperity	7.1	2.1
% Comfortably Off	33.2	34.7
% Moderate Means	9.2	20.4
% Hard Pressed	10.2	8.3
% 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 ACORN profile of the town has been produced. You can access the Lytchett Minster & Upton (pdf, 918kb) (opens in a new window) document 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	£271,299	£307,331	24	£308,882	17
Semi-detached	£193,115	£215,989	9	£186,796	16
Terraced	£142,714	£169,625	12	£177,605	9
Flats/maisonettes	£123,333	n/a	0	n/a	0

Land Registry average prices (Prices may be affected by low number of sales). Data is for the postcode sectors BH16 5 and BH16 6.

Tenure - 2011 Census

% of all households

Area	Owner occupied (%)	Shared ownership (%)	Social rented (%)	Private rented (%)	Living rent free (%)
Lytchett Minster/Upton	77.0	1.5	7.8	12.7	1.1

Source: ONS

Area:

Approx. 'built-up' area = 1,435 hectares (3,545 acres)

Local authority revenue

Council tax band D for Year	Council Tax payable
12/13	£1,616.93
11/12	£1,615.95
10/11	£1,615.22
09/10	£1,566.53
08/09	£1,505.98
07/08	£1,440.41
06/07	£1,373.01
05/06	n/a
04/05	n/a
03/04	n/a
02/03	n/a
01/02	n/a
00/01	n/a
99/00	n/a

Second/holiday and vacant homes, 2011

Total dwellings on Council Tax Register	3,475
Total number of second homes	15
Second homes as a % of total dwellings	0.40
Total number of long term empty properties	10
Empty homes as a % of total dwellings	0.29

Source: Council Tax Register (parish figure, rounded)

Ethnicity (%) - 2011Census

	Lytchett Minster/Upton	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
% white British	96.4	96.2	95.5
% Black and minority ethnic groups (BME)	3.6	3.8	4.5

Source: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census

Country of birth (%) - 2011 Census

	Lytchett Minster/Upton	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
% born in England	92.4	91.2	91.0
% born rest of UK	3.1	3.4	3.4
% born in Rep of IRE	0.4	0.4	0.4
% born EU (member countries in 2001)	1.1	1.7	1.3
% born EU (Accession countries April 2001 to March 2011)	0.9	0.6	0.7
% born elsewhere	2.3	2.6	3.1

Source: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census

Health - 2011 Census (% of population)

Health Limiting day-to-day Activities

	Lytchett Minster/Upton	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
Day-to-day activities limited a lot (%)	7.3	8.2	8.6
limited a little(%)	10.0	11.2	11.5
not limited(%)	82.6	80.5	79.9
limited a lot: Age 16 to 64(%)	2.6	2.9	2.9
limited a little: Age 16 to 64(%)	4.3	4.5	4.5
not limited: Age 16 to 64(%)	54.6	52.0	51.1

General Health

	Lytchett Minster/Upton	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
Very good health(%)	47.1	45.0	44.6
Good health(%)	34.4	35.9	35.9
Fair health(%)	13.9	14.1	14.5
Bad health(%)	3.6	4.0	3.9
Very bad health(%)	1.0	1.0	1.1

Provision of Unpaid Care

	Lytchett Minster/Upton	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
Provides no unpaid care(%)	88.3	87.3	88.1
Provides 1 to 19 hours unpaid care a week(%)	8.1	8.7	8.1
Provides 20 to 49 hours unpaid care a week(%)	1.4	1.5	1.3
Provides 50 or more hours unpaid care a week(%)	2.3	2.5	2.5

Source: ONS 2011 Census

Town centre

All local shops

Catchment population

The shopping catchment for Lychett Minster/Upton is dominated by the adjacent retailing facilities in Poole & Hamworthy. The local shops in Upton will probably only serve the local population of around 7,500.

Library - Number of issues of books etc

Library	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Upton	46,440	40,358	40,252	38,914

Industrial estates

Factory Road Industrial Estate (9.9 hectares, part of which is in Poole Borough).

Unemployment % (persons)

Proportion of resident population aged 16-64 and actual number

Year	Male	Female	Total
July 1997	n/a	n/a	n/a
July 1998	n/a	n/a	n/a
July 1999	n/a	n/a	n/a
July 2000	n/a	n/a	n/a
July 2001	n/a	n/a	n/a
July 2002	n/a	n/a	n/a
July 2003	n/a	n/a	n/a
July 2004	0.9 (21)	0.2 (6)	0.6 (27)
July 2005	0.5 (11)	0.2 (5)	0.3 (16)
July 2006	1.3 (31)	0.5 (12)	0.9 (43)
July 2007	1.2 (28)	0.5 (14)	0.8 (42)
July 2008	0.9 (22)	0.7 (18)	0.8 (40)
July 2009	3.7 (92)	1.2 (31)	2.4 (123)
July 2010	2.9 ( 73)	1.2 (31)	2.0 (104)
July 2011	1.9 (46)	1.2 (30)	1.6 (76)

Of July 2009 Unemployment figures, the long-term unemployed = 3.3%
Of July 2010 Unemployment figures, the long-term unemployed = 12.5%
Of July 2011 Unemployment figures, the long-term unemployed = 3.9%

The wider economy of the area

To see an economic profile of the wider Purbeck area follow this link to the Purbeck Economy & Labour Market Profile 2011 (pdf, 1008kb) (opens in a new window) .

2010 employment

Total number of people working in the town: 1,200
Number of Firms(excluding the self-employed):150 (2009)

Work pattern	percentage
Full-time	52%
Part-time	48%

Type of employment	%
Production and construction	13
Distribution, accommodation and food	21
Other market services	10
Public Admin, education and health	44
Other services	11

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

Major employers

Rediset Business Forums Ltd, Yarrells Preparatory School.

Traffic Counts - annual average daily traffic

Road	Location	AADF (Annual Average Daily Traffic)							Percentage Growth Since
No.		1983	1990	2000	2005	2008	2009	2010	2009	2008	2005	2000	1990	1983
									1 Year	2 year	5 Years	10 Years	20 Years	27 Years
A35	Upton By Pass - West	n/a	n/a	n/a	32,300	33,900	34,900	34,000	-3%	0%	5%	n/a	n/a	n/a
B3067	Dorchester Road, Lytchett Minster	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4,900	4,500	4,500	0%	-8%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
A351	South of Bakers Arms	13,000	17,600	19,700	20,500	20,300	20,900	19,800	-5%	-2%	-3%	1%	13%	52%