Local place study - Oxford

Question 1

How population of Oxford has changed?

Answer 1

1911 - 1970 - grew 10,000 per decade due to cowley car plant
197-0 - 2001 - less gwoth 3000 per decade due to delcine car manufacturing
2011 - 2011 (10 years) population grew by over 16,000 - hoevwer not UK born resients - immigrants from E - Eu, Africa and Asia

Oxford city has the youngest median age of any place in England and Wales - 29.9.

Overall population increase and 150,000

Question 2

How diveristy changed

Answer 2

2001 - 13% non white

2011 - 22%

Question 3

How emplyment chanhged?

Answer 3

Manu facturing declined (secondary) howver service industries increases tertiratu - shift from seocndary to tertiaty jobs - 3rd highest proeption of ‘knowldge intensive servive jkobs’ in any UK city

2008 fincianil cris s- recessiona and unemplyment - youth affected by more - 2011 unemplyment 30-40 = 5% 19% early 20s

current emplyment levels = 43%

Question 4

Change house prices and social effects?

Answer 4

house prices 4 x higher than in 1990s e.g 1996 - £80,000 2014 - £312,000

house prices are far higher than earnings ‘least affordable city in UK’ 17.3% higher

Question 5

Inequality in Oxford?

Answer 5

Sumetown vs Cowley:

e inequalities widerratherthan narrower.
Acurrent pressing concern is cutsto local
governmentfunding which will mean reduced
supportfor vulnerable people and future cutsto
levels of welfare spending which may be made
by central government.

10 of Oxford’s 83 neighbourhood areas (‘Super Output Areas’) are among the 20% most deprived areas in England
25% of children in Oxford live below the poverty line
however this is concenrtaed in poooere neighbroods

Question 6

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Answer 6

rapid irbanisation

Question 7

What is the location and locale of Oxford?

Answer 7

S of Birmigham, NW London

Question 8

lived exprince past and present?

Answer 8

83% satisifed with neighboorhood - heowver, soruce is Oxford city counicl - bias
60% feel they belong, therefore these two statistics clash as how can you feel like a outsider and also be satisifed?

I quickly realised that Oxford was a bitter, lonely, rather boring place, and its beauty was there to taunt us

highest leel egenral life satifsctaion in suvry 3000 - howver not large enough - can’t eb rperenstative of 150,000 people

corruption in admission process Oxford univeristy - 40% of Oxford studnets are privatly eduacted depsite only 6% of uk schoolchiuldren going to private schools

Question 9

Represnted?

Answer 9

As posh, elitist and rich - ‘the riot club’ howevr infact concetrated areas of mass deprivation e.g cowly (50% pop most deprved on deprivation index)

‘A place of visions and of loosening changes, a refuge of the elect a tower of dreams - cs lewis

• positive represntation - poetry
• home to plefora literary sholars - osaklar wilde, cs lweis - ocfrod uniristy