Oxfordshire Insight

Introduction

Oxfordshire County Council carries out an annual update to housing-led population forecasts to support planning for school places, social care and other services. These differ from the population projections provided by ONS in that they:

Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar on population forecasts on 21st September 2021.

Bella Image (Senior Research Officer with responsibility for modelling and statistics, Oxfordshire County Council) talked through:

The charts below show the recorded ethnicities and first language (English/Other) of Primary and Secondary (national curriculum years 1-11) pupils who attend Oxfordshire schools, split by the District in which they live. The underlying data comes from the January 2021 School Census*.

Some key themes:

A new population bitesize is now available with data on residents born overseas and living in Oxfordshire in 1961 and 2011.

Introduction

Oxfordshire County Council carries out an annual update to housing-led population forecasts to support planning for school places, social care and other services.  These differ from the population projections provided by ONS in that they:

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) report provides information about Oxfordshire’s population and the factors affecting health, wellbeing, and social care needs. It brings together information from different sources and partners to create a shared evidence base, which supports service planning, decision-making, and delivery.