City inequalities
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- Created on: 27-04-18 19:57
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- City inequalities
- Economic structure
- Recent deindustrialisation and population increases have changed Birmingham's economic structure. The main reasons for economic change in Birmingham are the decline in manufacturing industry and lack of investment.
- Deprivation is a way of measuring people's access to general resources and opportunities.
- 40% of Birmingham's population live in areas that are among the most deprived in England.
- During 2004-2007 Birmingham was ranked as the most deprived local authority in the West Midlands
- Sutton Four Oaks is in the top 5% of least deprived SOAs in the UK.
- SOAs are Super Output Areas, used to look at deprivation in small areas. Each SOA is awarded a score for different aspects of deprivation. In England there are 32484 SOAs with populations of between 1000 and 3200.
- Deprivation is high in inner city areas of Birmingham, but also exists in the suburbs.
- Quality of life in Birmingham
- Some migrants don't have skills/qualifications for the available jobs
- Investment in inner city slow-limited public funding
- Increasing population density in inner city-strain on health services
- Provision of services-housing, schools-hasn't kept up with increasing demand
- Available jobs often don't need specific skills/ qualifications but are short-term contracts
- Economic structure
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