Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2002

Table 13.1: Local authorities ranked on 2001 dependency ratio from lowest to highest number of dependants



 
Dependency ratio of elderly people per 100 people of working age

Local Authority

1991

2001

Tamworth

18

20

Redditch

20

22

Telford and Wrekin

22

23

Cannock Chase

23

25

Worcester

27

26

Birmingham

29

27

North Warwickshire

25

28

Nuneaton and Bedworth

25

28

Coventry

29

28

Lichfield

23

29

Warwick

31

29

East Staffordshire

28

30

South Staffordshire

23

30

Rugby

29

30

Stoke-on-Trent

30

30

Wyre Forest

28

31

Newcastle-under-Lyme

30

31

Stafford

28

31

Walsall

27

31

Sandwell

32

31

Bridgnorth

28

31

Dudley

28

31

Wolverhampton

30

32

Solihull

27

32

Bromsgrove

28

32

Staffordshire Moorlands

29

32

Shrewsbury and Atcham

32

32

Wychavon

31

33

North Shropshire

32

34

Oswestry

34

34

Stratford-on-Avon

32

34

County of Herefordshire

35

37

Malvern Hills

39

41

South Shropshire

40

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