Birmingham Erdington

New parliamentary constituency

This constituency is new at the July general election, and replaces the previous two constituencies:

Birmingham, Erdington

Covered approximately 100% of this new constituency’s population, and 100% of this new constituency’s area.

Birmingham, Perry Barr

Covered approximately 14% of this new constituency’s population, and 13% of this new constituency’s area.

MP profiles

Date elected

3rd Mar 2022

Public opinion

Would be less favourable towards the Conservative Party if they chose to weaken climate policies

69.5%

69.1% national average

Believe the government has increased investment in renewables over the past 5 years

51.3%

52.0% national average

Believe that the government should use wind and solar farms to reduce energy bills

81.5%

84.3% national average

Believe that the government should continue the block on onshore wind development

30.7%

24.3% national average

Second placed party at most recent election

Reform UK

Have missed a bill payment in the last six months

45.3%

31.5% national average

Have missed a credit payment in the last six months

37.3%

23.6% national average

Have not been able to afford to turn the heating on at home when they have felt cold in the past month

49.5%

37.5% national average

Loss of nature and destruction of the environment should be one of the most important concerns for the country

This area National average
Net agree 68% 72.6%
Net disagree 9% 8.7%
Strongly agree 30.1% 33.8%
Partly agree 37.9% 38.8%
Neither agree nor disagree 23.0% 18.7%
Partly disagree 5.1% 5.9%
Strongly disagree 3% 2.7%

Mental health has been impacted by the cost of living crisis

49.9%

41.5% national average

Neither support nor oppose Net Zero

30%

26.2% national average

Policies for tackling the cost of living crisis should go hand in hand with policies to tackle the climate crisis

This area National average
Net agree 57.9% 58.9%
Net disagree 15.0% 17.6%
Strongly agree 24.9% 24.2%
Somewhat agree 33.1% 34.7%
Neither agree nor disagree 26.1% 23.4%
Somewhat disagree 9.1% 10.5%
Strongly disagree 6% 7.1%

Tackling climate change should / should not be one of the Government’s biggest priorities right now

This area National average
Should be a priority 49.5% 57.5%
Should not be a priority 50.5% 42.5%

Worried about having to use a foodbank in the next year

41.5%

28.7% national average

Worried about not being able to afford their mortgage or rent in the next year

50.8%

40.0% national average

Place

Constituency age distribution

This area National average
Ages 0 - 15 21.9% 18.3%
Ages 16 - 24 11.0% 10.5%
Ages 25 - 34 14.8% 13.2%
Ages 35 - 49 19.3% 19.1%
Ages 50 - 64 18.9% 19.8%
Ages 65 and over 14.1% 19.1%

Constituency Population

122,000

102,977.2 national average

Country of the UK

England

Current Industry

This area National average
Agriculture, energy and water 0.5% 1.1%
Construction 3.2% 4.1%
Distribution, hotels and restaurants 9.2% 9.2%
Financial, real estate, professional and administrative activities 5.5% 7.9%
Manufacturing 4.1% 3.5%
Does not apply 59.0% 53.4%
Other 1.5% 2.1%
Public administration, education and health 12.6% 14.3%
Transport and communication 4.3% 4.4%

Current Occupation

This area National average
Administrative and secretarial occupations 3.9% 4.3%
Associate professional and technical occupations 4.4% 6.1%
Caring, leisure and other service occupations 4.8% 4.4%
Elementary occupations 6.6% 4.8%
Managers, directors and senior officials 3.2% 6.0%
Does not apply 59.0% 53.4%
Process, plant and machine operatives 4.4% 3.2%
Professional occupations 5.9% 9.4%
Sales and customer service occupations 3.6% 3.5%
Skilled trades occupations 4.1% 4.8%

Disabled under the Equality Act

20.2%

17.7% national average

Estimated child poverty

48.9%

29.3% national average

Ethnicity

This area National average
Asian / Asian British 15.3% 8.1%
Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups 5.9% 2.8%
Other ethnic groups 2.5% 1.8%
Other White 8.3% 6.3%
White British 54.8% 77.5%

General Health

This area National average
Bad or very bad health 7.3% 5.3%
Fair health 14.8% 12.8%
Very good or good health 77.9% 81.9%

Housing Tenure

This area National average
Owned with a mortgage 26.5% 28.9%
Other tenure 1.3% 1.2%
Owned outright 25.1% 33.3%
Private rented 21.8% 19.9%
Social rented 25.2% 16.8%

Main Language

This area National average
African languages 0.9% 0.3%
Asian languages 4.1% 3.0%
English or Welsh 84.8% 88.9%
European languages (EU) 5.2% 3.8%
Does not apply 4.0% 3.1%
North or South American languages 0% 0.0%
Oceanic or Australian languages 0% 0.0%
Any other languages 0.7% 0.6%
Other European languages (non-EU) 0.1% 0.1%
Any other UK languages 0.0% 0.0%
Sign and supported languages 0.1% 0.0%

Number of onshore windfarms

0

0.7 national average

Travel to work method

This area National average
Bicycle 0.6% 0.9%
Bus, minibus or coach 4.5% 1.8%
Driving a car or van 20.4% 21.3%
On foot 2.7% 3.5%
Work mainly at or from home 8.3% 14.5%
Underground, metro, light rail, tram 0.1% 0.7%
Motorcycle, scooter or moped 0.1% 0.2%
Not in employment or aged 15 years and under 59.0% 53.4%
Other method of travel to work 0.5% 0.5%
Passenger in a car or van 2.4% 1.8%
Taxi 0.7% 0.3%
Train 0.8% 0.8%

Movement

Churches that have declared a climate emergency

0

0.2 national average

Number of RSPB Reserves

0

0.3 national average

Number of Save the Children shops

0

0.2 national average

Number of Wildlife Trusts Reserves

0

2.4 national average

Number of Women’s Institute groups