Demographics West Midlands (region)

1 demographics

1.1 ethnicity
1.2 teenage pregnancy
1.3 social deprivation
1.4 elections
1.5 eurostat nuts

demographics
ethnicity

how west midlands region voted in june 2016 european union referendum; (university) district of warwick voted (58.8%) stay in eu; region had highest overall vote (59.3%) leave, large proportions in stoke-on-trent (69.4%) , cannock chase (68.9%)

the west midlands second ethnically diverse part of uk (greater london being diverse). in large part due west midlands conurbation, highly diverse. ethnic makeup of west midlands whole measured 2011 census follows:

teenage pregnancy

for top-tier authorities in west midlands, stoke-on-trent has highest teenage pregnancy rate. council districts, nuneaton , bedworth in warwickshire has highest rate closely followed tamworth. top-tier authorities, shropshire has lowest rate, , council districts malvern hills has lowest rate.

social deprivation

the region, studies of multiple deprivation, shows similarities yorkshire , humber, , more deprived neighbouring east midlands. indices of deprivation 2007, can seen that, in common northern england, region has more lower area super output areas in 20% deprived districts in 20% least deprived districts. region s deprived council districts, in descending order, birmingham (10th highest in england), sandwell (14th), stoke-on-trent (16th), wolverhampton (28th), walsall (45th), coventry (61st), , dudley (100th). these have labour mps except conservative mp in walsall, 1 in sandwell, 1 in dudley, , 1 in wolverhampton (wolverhampton south west), , lib dem mp birmingham yardley.

the least deprived districts in 2007 (before shropshire became unitary authority in 2009) bromsgrove, south staffordshire, warwick, wychavon, , lichfield. these areas, rural areas of west midlands, have conservative mps. @ county level, least deprived areas, in descending order, warwickshire, worcestershire, solihull, staffordshire, , shropshire.

in march 2011 region had second highest overall unemployment claimant count in england @ 4.7%, second north east england. highest in region wolverhampton @ 7.7%, joint second highest (with manchester) unemployment rate in england. next sandwell 7.1%, birmingham 7.0%, , walsall 6.4%. lowest rate in region district of stratford-on-avon, 1.6% - 1 of lowest unemployment rates in england.

elections

the green party of england , wales formed @ bridge inn in napton-on-the-hill, warwickshire, in february 1973, , originated article paul r. ehrlich population growth in playboy magazine; became ecology party in 1975 , green party in 1985; first conference in june 1973 @ allesley hotel @ a4114/a45 junction south of main jaguar works in allesley, in west coventry.

general election results in 2017

in 1992 general election, nuneaton taken labour 7% swing, 1 of largest swings of night; in 2015 election, nuneaton result largely seal eventual outcome of election. in 2010 general election, north warwickshire (dan byles) had smallest conservative majority, 54; stoke-on-trent central had smallest number of winning votes, 12,220.

in 2015 general election, conservatives gained largest share of region popular vote , took control of number of seats, 42% of region s electorate voting conservative, 33% labour, 16% ukip, 6% liberal democrat , 3% green. conservatives gained 2 seats virtually no swing labour conservative.

in 2017 general election, south staffordshire (gavin williamson) had second-highest conservative vote proportion in uk - 69.8%. david firth (statistician), @ university of warwick, invented bbc election exit poll. 6ft 9 daniel kawczynski, shropshire mp, tallest mp ever.

although having smaller percentage of vote neighbouring east midlands, geographic area of west midlands more conservative, due labour s vote consigned urban areas of birmingham, coventry , stoke-on-trent. number of seats more favoured towards labour geographic spread, 35 conservative seats , 24 labour. of warwickshire, staffordshire (except newcastle-under-lyme), herefordshire, worcestershire , shropshire conservative.

eurostat nuts

in eurostat nomenclature of territorial units statistics (nuts), west midlands form level-1 nuts region, coded ukg , subdivided follows:

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