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Ethnicity

The ethnic make-up of Ormsgill is predominately White British, making up 98.9% of the population. This
is in line with the Cumbrian average (98.5%) and significantly above average for the UK (85.4%). The other

‘white’ categories make up most of the remaining population, including ‘Other’ White (0.9%), White - Irish
(0.4%) and gypsy/ Travellers (0.1%).

Economic and Employment Profile

Economically Economically Long term Never worked
active residents inactive unemployed
Ormsgill 57% 43% 5.2% 1.3%
Cumbria 81% 19% 1.3% 0.4%
UK 75% 25% 1.7% 0.7%
Table 2: Economic and Employment Profile of Ormsgill, Cumbria and UK

The highest proportion of occupation groups is elementary followed by skilled trade’s occupations, caring,
leisure and other service industries and sale and customer service occupations (ONS Census, 2011).

Ormsgill experiences above national levels of income and employment deprivation and is one of the top
10% most deprived LSOA nationally using this indicator (DfCLG, 2015). The area is also the most deprived

in terms of employment deprivation in Barrow in Furness area.

Children and Young People
Population aged 0-17 People with no Children living in low
qualifications as a income families
percentage of working
age adults
Ormsgill 31% 36% 36%
Cumbria 19% 24.2% 12%
UK - 22.5% 17%
Table 3: Children and Young People Profile of Ormsgill Cumbria and UK

As the table illustrates, Ormsgill has a larger proportion of children and young people living in the area
than the Cumbrian average. The area also has significantly larger proportions of working age adults with

no qualifications. The proportion of children living in low-income families in Ormsgill is significantly above

the regional and national averages. Data provided by the DfCLG (2015) indicates that Ormsgill experiences

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