Toxteth place profile

Question 1

What is the average age in toxteth?

Answer 1

75% are working age between 16 and 64 but only 10%>65 and 13.99% are 0-15. These statistics are lower than national average

Question 2

What is the ethnic demography like?

Answer 2

1. 78% white
   2.7% Black-afro Caribbean (attracted by job opportunities)

Question 3

What is the population density per ha?

Answer 3

87-88 per ha high population density national average is around 4.1

Question 4

What % of people have no formal qualifications?

Answer 4

27%

Question 5

What % of people have ‘bad health’?

Answer 5

9.4%

Question 6

What is the average income per household?

Answer 6

£28,000

Question 7

What is the crime rate per 1000?

Answer 7

250/1000

Question 8

What % of people are economically active?

Answer 8

65% with only 36% in full time employment

Question 9

How does worship vary among migrants and natives?

Answer 9

71% are Christian (Roman catholic) with many afro-Caribbean’s having distinct Christian worship different from white British worship

Question 10

What percentage of people are muslims?

Answer 10

3.3% muslim

Question 11

What mosque is used by the Toxteth Muslim community?

Answer 11

Al Rahma mosque with Ramadan and importance to Friday prayers

Question 12

What party does the MP belong to?

Answer 12

Labour

Question 13

What ward is Toxteth part of?

Answer 13

Riverside, one of 30 making up Liverpool City Council

Question 14

What is the role of residents associations?

Answer 14

They represent residents’ views and concerns, provide a forum for residents to meet formally to consider matters of local concern and importance. To encourage and promote a sense of community spirit. To oppose racism and all forms of discrimination.

Question 15

What type of housing is found in Toxteth?

Answer 15

Due to industrialisation there is a dominance of cheaper terraced housing in the urban built environment

Question 16

What type of town is Toxteth?

Answer 16

Urban city suburb

Question 17

what is the average price of a semi detached house?

Answer 17

£122,000

Question 18

what typebof historic housing is there?

Answer 18

Historic villas from industrial period for middle class- many merchants of slave trade

Question 19

what was the slope angle of land?

Answer 19

Undulating land which started as a greenfield site for farming and hunting

Question 20

On what river is Toxteth located on?

Answer 20

Banks of the Mersey River

Question 21

What is the Altitude of Toxteth?

Answer 21

26m

Question 22

what is the significance of Toxteth regionally in the past?

Answer 22

Saxon heritage and a former coastal village

Question 23

How did Toxteth become a thriving area regionally in the past?

Answer 23

The area was fenced off for over 300 years by King James as a hunting forest before becoming farmland and making power from a damned stream good for irrigation and farming

Question 24

Why was Toxteth significant internationally in the past?

Answer 24

industrialisation made the area a major port, connected to the rest of the world shipping goods

Question 25

what were the initial forms of industrialisation?

Answer 25

1. Copper works and ceramic works
2. Flour milling and brewing for a growing population

Question 26

How was Toxteth connected to Scandinavia?

Answer 26

Through transport of timber

Question 27

what role did the port play in slavery?

Answer 27

Slave trade connecting Liverpool to the world

Question 28

What role did housing play in disease?

Answer 28

Cheap housing for industry workers and their families lead to a denser population where epidemics of cholera and typhoid rapidly spread.

Question 29

Why did many residential development schemes take place?

Answer 29

Part of the area was given to a ambitious housing scheme with villas, it was an attractive greenfield site for the middle class who wanted to escape the inner city congestion and declining environmental quality

Question 30

What are present day migration patterns like?

Answer 30

Migration from west Africa and the caribbean

Question 31

what are present day global connections like?

Answer 31

International connections are generally not well maintained as docks have moved up north

Question 32

Shifting flows: Why has migration of people occurred?

Answer 32

People from commonwealth migrated during the industrial era to fill skills gaps and were attracted by cheap housing

Question 33

Shifting flows: how did migration of middle class change?

Answer 33

During industrialisation there was internal migration of the middle class to the rural fringe

Question 34

Shifting flows: How did availability of resources change?

Answer 34

Decline of the docks as containerisation occurred and moved docks up north fir easier access. This led to a loss of employment and led to a period of civil disturbance- Toxteth riots 1981

Question 35

what stimulated the Toxteth riots?

Answer 35

Unemployment and racism

Question 36

what were the effects of the Toxteth riots?

Answer 36

500 injured and 70 buildings damaged over the course of 9 days

Question 37

Shifting flows: what was the role of Merseyside development cooperation?

Answer 37

Set out to regenerate the area in 1980s e.g. Liverpool Tate

Question 38

What role has Tate Liverpool played?

Answer 38

Opened in 1988 and in 2008 was declared European capital of culture which may have helped to increase tourism and tertiary employment

Question 39

What was the title given to docks by UNESCO?

Answer 39

World heritage site but status later revoked as the area was converted to bars

Question 40

How has the knowledge economy been affected? give 3 ways

Answer 40

1. Largest offshore windfarm in Liverpool bay- expanding low carbon sector
2. 2015 survey found that many applicants lacked job specific skills and qualifications, many don’t have access to employment
3. Liverpool science Park opened in 2003 has helped to expand the knowledge economy