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Strengthening our use of data to tackle poverty and the cost-of-living crisis

November 24th, 2023 by Cath Bentley

Poverty in Calderdale: selected statistics – the Calderdale Anti-Poverty dashboards – is a collection of dashboards about poverty statistics in Calderdale on the Calderdale Dataworks website. Ten new dashboards have been added about: housing affordability for buyers and renters; people eligible for carers allowance; people claiming universal credit who have completed work capability assessments; trends…

Census 2021 – latest updates

February 10th, 2023 by Cath Bentley

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has completed the first of three phases of publishing information about Census 2021.  You can now find information about Calderdale’s communities and wards from Census 2021 in our ward demographic profiles and dedicated Census 2021 pages.  Highlights from phase one include ONS will be publishing new analysis and a…

Population statistics in Calderdale

October 13th, 2021 by Cath Bentley

Calderdale is a metropolitan district, situated in the South Pennines between Greater Manchester, and Leeds and Bradford. Within England, it is one of the larger districts by area, but one of the smallest by population, covering the towns of Brighouse, Elland, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge and Todmorden. The headline demographic statistics are: the district…

Calderdale Anti-Poverty Dashboards

April 8th, 2020 by Cath Bentley

Calderdale Council and its partners in the Calderdale Anti-poverty steering group are working together to help tackle poverty in the borough.  The work of the partnership is reported through the Calderdale Anti-Poverty Action Plan. which has three areas of focus: Prevention: Identifying necessary work to be done to support residents and protect them from falling…

Calderdale Indices of Deprivation (IoD) dashboard

October 17th, 2019 by Cath Bentley

We have developed a suite of dashboards, using the Qlik Sense data visualisation software, to show the IoD 2019 data – see Indices of Deprivation. IoD are a set of datasets including the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) published by Government, and was last published in September 2019. The data is used by a wide…