- The resident population of Coventry in 2023 was 360,702 the average (median) age of residents of Coventry is 35 years of age (compared with 40 nationally).
- The life expectancy at birth of the average person in Coventry is 77 years for males and 82 years for females (2020-22). However, this masks significant health inequalities across the city, the inequalities in life expectancy between the most and least deprived quintile of Coventry, 2020 to 2021 is 10.2 years for males and 7.5 years for females.
- In the latest census, around 242,100 Coventry residents said they were born in England. This represented 70.1% of the local population.
- According to the latest school census in 2022, 55.9% of Coventry’s school children are from an ethnic minority group up from 39.7% in 2012. The largest ethnic minorities in school children are Black African (11.4%), non-British white (10.2%), and Asian Indian (8.9%).
- In Coventry in 2021/22, 21.4% of children under the age of 16 live in homes with ‘absolute’ low incomes, compared to 21.4% throughout the West Midlands and 15.3% in England. The percentage of children living in ‘relative poverty’ in Coventry is 26.7%, amounting to an estimated 18,267 children. This compares to 27.0% throughout the West Midlands and 19.9% in England. This has been an increasing trend in Coventry, and elsewhere, since 2014/15.
- In 2022, the percentage of households in fuel poverty in Coventry is 22.7%. However, for Coventry households in 16 MSOAs, the percentage of households in fuel poverty is more than this - with 4 over 40% of households (Foleshill West, Foleshill East, Hillfields and Lower Stoke & Gosford Park) some of the most deprived parts of the city. Modelled using the Low-Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) measure.
- According to the local concentration measure, Coventry ranks as 81st most deprived out of 317, an improvement from 59th in the IMD 2015. Fewer Coventry neighbourhoods are now amongst the 10% most deprived in England.
- Coventry is ranked 53rd out of all 317 authorities in England for the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI). This measures the proportion of all children aged 0 to 15 living in income-deprived families.
- Coventry is ranked 50th out of all 317 authorities in England for the Income Deprivation Affecting Older People Index (IDAOPI). This measures the proportion of all those aged 60 or over who experience income deprivation
Source: Insight Team, Coventry City Council
Population density
Population density
Population density measures the number of persons per hectare. As of 2021, the population density of the United Kingdom was 276 people per square kilometre. Of the countries which make up the United Kingdom, England is the most densely populated at 434 people per square kilometre. In England, there were 3 people for each football pitch-sized area of land (434 per square kilometre).
As of 2021, Coventry is the fourth most densely populated of the West Midlands’ 30 local authorities, with around 25 people living on each football pitch-sized area of land (3,501 people per square kilometre). Only Birmingham (4,275), Sandwell (3,995) and Wolverhampton (3,798) are more densely populated.
The West Midlands is the third largest densely populated area in the United Kingdom in 2021 with 4.58 persons per hectare. The latest available data, for 2020, suggests the population density per square kilometre in Coventry is 34.81 persons per hectare, with significant variations per ward; the most densely populated area is Hillfields with 10,867 people per square kilometre and the least densely populated is Brownshill Green with 426 people per square kilometre.
Source: LG Inform. Accessed July 2024.
The Health Index 2021 – measuring the nation’s health
The Health Index is a measure of overall health in England. It uses a broad definition of health, including health outcomes, health-related behaviours and personal circumstances, and wider drivers of health. It provides a single value for health that can show how health changes over time.
The Health Index is organised around three broad areas:
- Healthy People: covers health outcomes such as life expectancy, physical health conditions like dementia, cancer and kidney disease, disability, personal well-being and mental health.
- Healthy Lives: covers health-related behaviours and personal circumstances including obesity, hypertension, drug misuse, smoking and cancer screening.
- Healthy Places: covers the wider social, economic and environmental drivers of health such as crime, unemployment, child poverty, pollution, noise and road traffic.
The score can show whether health in a local area is improving. The Health Index score has a baseline of 100, which represents England’s health in 2015. A score higher than 100 means that an area has better health for that measure than was average in 2015, lower than 100 means worse health than the 2015 average.
|
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Coventry |
93.0 |
94.1 |
90.9 |
90.4 |
90.1 |
89.6 |
90.0 |
|
England |
100.0 |
100.5 |
100.9 |
100.9 |
100.9 |
100.1 |
100.8 |
|
WMR |
97.1 |
97.6 |
97.5 |
97.1 |
96.7 |
95.7 |
96.5 |
Source: Office of National Statistics (ONS) Health Index for England: 2015-2021. Accessed September 2024.
Health in England as an overall figure measured by the Health Index increased slightly in 2021, when compared with 2020. At 100.8 it remained a little above 2015 levels, however, the health score for both Coventry and West Midlands Region remains lower than the England index and in 2020 both declined and are still below the England 2015 score.
Coventry's Health Index score increased slightly in 2021, and has an overall Health Index score of 90.0.
In 2021, health in Coventry is strongest among measures relating to the "physical health conditions" subdomain. Coventry's best score across all subdomains is 107.4 for health relating to "physical health conditions".
In 2021, Coventry has a Health Index score of 106.5 for "access to services". The score for the West Midlands is 98.1, while England has a score of 100.3.
In 2021, Coventry's Health Index value for "mental health" improved by 7.1 points in the six years between 2015 and 2021. Coventry's score for "mental health" improved from 93.9 in 2015 to 101.1 in 2021. This means Coventry went from being in the bottom 25% of local authority areas to being in the top 40% across England for this subdomain.
In 2021, Coventry's score for health relating to "living conditions" is worse than the score for England as a whole. Health Index values for the "living conditions" subdomain in England and across local authority areas in the West Midlands, 2020 and 2021.
Between 2020 and 2021, Coventry's Health Index value for "living conditions" declined from 99.0 to 98.9. This means Coventry remained in the bottom 20% of local authority areas for this subdomain.
In 2021, Coventry's lowest indicator score is for cancer screening attendance and its highest score is for sexually transmitted infections.