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Creating sustainable communties and a fairer world - indicators

This pie chart and the table below give a summary of assessments for the sustainable community indicators supporting the UK Government Sustainable Development Strategy.

Clicking on the indicator name leads to a page with a chart/charts, assessments of progress and commentary. A smaller thumbnail chart links to a larger version in those cases where longer term trend information is available.

Indicator

Change since:

1990

2003

Society

37. Active community participation:*

No data cross

38. Crime:*

Vehicles

hmc Green
Green Green

Violent

Green Green

39. Fear of crime:

Green since 1992 Green

Employment and poverty

40. Employment:*

Amber Amber

41. Workless households:*

No data Amber

42. Economically inactive:

Amber since 1992 Amber

43. Childhood poverty:*

Before housing cost

tick equal

After housing cost

equal equal

44. Young adults:

1994 Amber

45. Pensioner poverty:*

Before housing cost

tick equal

After housing cost

tick tick

46. Pension provision:

Amber since 1992 Amber

Education

47. Education:*

Green
2004

48. Sustainable development education:

No data No data

Health

49. Health inequality:*

Infant mortality

Red compared with 1994 tick

Life expectancy

Red compared with 1991 Red

50. Healthy life expectancy:

Amber Amber

51. Mortality rates:

Green since 1993 Green

52. Smoking:

No data Amber since 2001

53. Childhood obesity:

Red since 1995 Amber

54. Diet:

Low income group - Men

miss equal

Low income group - Women

miss tick

Mobility and access

55. Mobility:*

Walking/cycling

1995 Red

Public transport

1995 Amber

56. Getting to school:

Amber Amber

57. Accessibility:

No data Amber

58. Road accidents:

Green Green

Housing

25. Land recycling:

tic Green

26. Dwelling density:

Green Green

62. Housing conditions: Homes below standard

Social sector

miss tick

Vulnerable households in the private sector.

miss equal

63. Households living in fuel poverty:

No data Green

64. Homelessness:

Rough sleepers

Green since 1992 Green

Homeless households

Red since 1992 Red

Social justice and environmental equality

59. Social Justice

No data No data

60. Environmental equality

No data
No data

61. Air quality and health:

PM10 concentrations - urban

1993 Green

PM10 concentrations - roadside

No data Amber

Urban ozone concentrations

Red Red

Rural ozone concentrations

equal Green

65. Local environment quality:

No data Green since 2001

66. Satisfaction in local area:

Overall households satisfied

No data Amber

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund areas satisfied

No data Amber

67. UK international assistance

Green Green

68. Wellbeing*

No data
No data

Contextual

32. Economic output

Green Green

33. Productivity

Green Green

34. Investment

Total investment

Green Green

Social investment

No data No data

35. Demography

contextual contextual

36. Households and dwellings

contextual contextual

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Updated: 30 July 2009

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs