Changing places (local case study Oxford)

Question 1

What is the population of Oxford?

Answer 1

154,600 (33,640 students)

Question 2

What are the employment figures in Cowley and Summertown (2015)?

Answer 2

Summertown - 75%

Cowley - 73%

Question 3

What are the crime rates in Cowley and Summertown?

Answer 3

Summertown - 55

Cowley - 165

Question 4

What are economic characteristics of Oxford?

Answer 4

• High employment
• Unemployment rate is 3.1% (national average is 4.3)
• Cowley (50% students), Summertown (12% students)

Question 5

Where is employment in Oxford based?

Answer 5

• Education 28.5% (30,321 jobs)
• Health for 18.5% (19,715 jobs)
• Scientific/technical services 7.3% (7,784 jobs
• Finance/IT/business 19.7% (21,835)

Question 6

What is deprivation like in Oxford?

Answer 6

• 20 of 83 neighbourhood areas are among the 20% most deprived areas in England
• 25% of children in Oxford live below the poverty line

Question 7

What are low levels of deprivation?

Answer 7

• Low skills
• Low incomes
• Relatively high levels of crime
• Shorter life expectancy

Question 8

What is the deprivation in Summertown and Cowley?

Answer 8

Summertown - 10%

Cowley - 50%

Question 9

How is Oxford represented through TV/film?

Answer 9

• Lewis/Endeavour
• The riot club - posh oxford colleges, traditional public schools (Bullingdon club).
• Focus on the university

Question 10

How is Oxford represented through poetry?

Answer 10

• Arnold ‘thyrsis’ - city of dreaming spires

- Hopkins ‘towery city and branchy between towers’

Question 11

What is one problem with Oxford?

Answer 11

• Average house prices are 17.3 times average earnings

- Mean house price is £523,150