Cornwall Statistics

Please find the index of multiple deprivation website link which gives you information to compare deprivation levels in Cornwall across the UK picture: https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/index-multiple-deprivation-imd

Cornwall’s Vital signs – an analysis of social need

A full-time worker earns less than 80% of the UK gross median annual salary.
In 2021 a full-time worker in Cornwall and IOS earned £20,628, 79% of the UK gross median annual salary (£38,552)
Part time work accounts for over 40% of jobs in Cornwall
20.3% of Cornwall’s workforce is self-employed compared to 13.5% for the UK. 49% of self-employed people earn less that the minimum wage
The cost of heating an average Cornish home is around 20% higher than homes in England
Cornwall fuel poverty affects over 12.6% 32,367 homes)of all households, on the IOS its 11.7% (131 homes)
Cornwall and the IOS have the 3rd highest rate of suicide in the UK
There were 31 drug related deaths in 2021, the highest on record
Only 11% of housing stock in Cornwall is social housing (National average in UK is 18%)
22,000 households are on the social housing waiting list
Cornwall council delivered the second highest number of affordable homes in the country in 2020/21 (814 build) but just 10 of those were available to rent from the council or housing association
The average house price in Cornwall (2022) was £302,121. (England £297,524)
Average asking rent in May 2022 was £1090 a month, a 31% increase from May 2019 (£829)
In Cornwall funding for education and non-statutory children’ social care is less, equating to over £14,000 less funding over the course of a child’s life from 0-18

For full research and references please refer to document below Stats taken from Cornwall community foundation Vitals signs 2022 document: www.cornwallcommunityfoundation.com/vitalsigns2022

Info collated by Helen Pearce Social Justice Co-ordinator

Cornwall and IOS Methodist Circuit

For more info please contact 07450989571 / socialjustice@cornwallmethodists.org.uk