South Shropshire

New parliamentary constituency

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

Shrewsbury and Atcham

Covered approximately 9% of this new constituency’s population, and 44% of this new constituency’s area.

Ludlow

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

MP profiles

Date elected

12th Dec 2019

Public opinion

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

73.1%

69.1% national average

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

54.7%

52.0% national average

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

90.6%

84.3% national average

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

23.8%

24.3% national average

Second placed party at most recent election

Liberal Democrats

Have missed a bill payment in the last six months

25%

31.5% national average

Have missed a credit payment in the last six months

19%

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

28.1%

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 74.8% 72.6%
Net disagree 9% 8.7%
Strongly agree 34% 33.8%
Partly agree 39.9% 38.8%
Neither agree nor disagree 17.1% 18.7%
Partly disagree 6% 5.9%
Strongly disagree 3% 2.7%

Mental health has been impacted by the cost of living crisis

41.4%

41.5% national average

Neither support nor oppose Net Zero

26%

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 57.2% 58.9%
Net disagree 19.8% 17.6%
Strongly agree 23.1% 24.2%
Somewhat agree 34.1% 34.7%
Neither agree nor disagree 23% 23.4%
Somewhat disagree 11.9% 10.5%
Strongly disagree 7.9% 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 57.2% 57.5%
Should not be a priority 42.8% 42.5%

Worried about having to use a foodbank in the next year

25.1%

28.7% national average

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

32%

40.0% national average

Place

Constituency age distribution

This area National average
Ages 0 - 15 14.3% 18.3%
Ages 16 - 24 7.7% 10.5%
Ages 25 - 34 8.7% 13.2%
Ages 35 - 49 14.9% 19.1%
Ages 50 - 64 24.2% 19.8%
Ages 65 and over 30.2% 19.1%

Country of the UK

England

Current Industry

This area National average
Agriculture, energy and water 3.8% 1.1%
Construction 4.7% 4.1%
Distribution, hotels and restaurants 8.8% 9.2%
Financial, real estate, professional and administrative activities 6.5% 7.9%
Manufacturing 4.4% 3.5%
Does not apply 54.5% 53.4%
Other 2.2% 2.1%
Public administration, education and health 12.3% 14.3%
Transport and communication 2.8% 4.4%

Current Occupation

This area National average
Administrative and secretarial occupations 4.0% 4.3%
Associate professional and technical occupations 5.0% 6.1%
Caring, leisure and other service occupations 4.1% 4.4%
Elementary occupations 4.4% 4.8%
Managers, directors and senior officials 7.3% 6.0%
Does not apply 54.5% 53.4%
Process, plant and machine operatives 2.7% 3.2%
Professional occupations 7.5% 9.4%
Sales and customer service occupations 2.9% 3.5%
Skilled trades occupations 7.6% 4.8%

Disabled under the Equality Act

19.1%

17.7% national average

Estimated child poverty

32.1%

29.3% national average

Ethnicity

This area National average
Asian / Asian British 0.9% 8.1%
Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups 0.9% 2.8%
Other ethnic groups 0.2% 1.8%
Other White 2.2% 6.3%
White British 95.5% 77.5%

General Health

This area National average
Bad or very bad health 5.3% 5.3%
Fair health 14.2% 12.8%
Very good or good health 80.5% 81.9%

Housing Tenure

This area National average
Owned with a mortgage 21.9% 28.9%
Other tenure 0.8% 1.2%
Owned outright 47.6% 33.3%
Private rented 18.1% 19.9%
Social rented 11.6% 16.8%

Main Language

This area National average
African languages 0.0% 0.3%
Asian languages 0.3% 3.0%
English or Welsh 96.6% 88.9%
European languages (EU) 0.7% 3.8%
Does not apply 2.2% 3.1%
North or South American languages 0% 0.0%
Oceanic or Australian languages 0% 0.0%
Any other languages 0.1% 0.6%
Other European languages (non-EU) 0.0% 0.1%
Any other UK languages 0.0% 0.0%
Sign and supported languages 0.0% 0.0%

Number of onshore windfarms

0

0.7 national average

Travel to work method

This area National average
Bicycle 0.4% 0.9%
Bus, minibus or coach 0.2% 1.8%
Driving a car or van 24.8% 21.3%
On foot 3.7% 3.5%
Work mainly at or from home 14.1% 14.5%
Underground, metro, light rail, tram 0.0% 0.7%
Motorcycle, scooter or moped 0.1% 0.2%
Not in employment or aged 15 years and under 54.5% 53.4%
Other method of travel to work 0.4% 0.5%
Passenger in a car or van 1.6% 1.8%
Taxi 0.1% 0.3%
Train 0.2% 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

15

  • Brook Vessons
  • Button Oak Meadow
  • Catherton Common
  • Clunton Coppice
  • Comley Quarry
  • Cramer Gutter
  • Farfields Meadows
  • Harton Hollow
  • Hope Valley
  • Mason's Bank
  • Nipstone Rock
  • Pam's Pools
  • Rhos Fiddle
  • The Betts Reserve
  • Whitcliffe Common