HALIFAX HOUSE DATA FOR MARCH 2009 |
House prices rose 1.1% in July 2009
House price to earnings 4.36
House prices in July 2009 were 12.1% lower on an annual
basis
Mortgage approvals in February 2009 were 38,000 (44% lower than February
2008)
Average house price in July
2009 £159,623
Mortgage repayments accounted for approximately 21.4% of gross average household income.
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UK HOUSEHOLD DEBT FIGURES |
Callcredit research has shown that 14% of people spend over 30pc
of their monthly income on unsecured debt re-payments.
155600 households were 3 months or more in arrears.
Uk personal debt stood at £1458 billion in June 2009
73.6% of credit card balances attracted interest in May
2009
Average UK household debt excluding mortgages £9240 in June 2009
The average household pays £2,650 interest each year on their
debts.
2 million UK consumers are on debt re-payment schemes
to energy suppliers.
29,774 people were declared insolvent in the first
quarter of 2009.
The average UK consumer is charged an interest rate of 17.95%
on their credit card.
According to the FSA 1/3 of students at university are constantly
overdrawn.
UK credit card borrowing is growing at an annual rate of 5.1%.
Citizens Advice offices report they had 1.93 million new
debt problems in the last 12 months
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Life expectancy at age 65 in the UK has reached its highest level ever for both men and women. Men aged 65 could expect
to live a further 16.9 years and women a further 19.7 years if mortality rates remained the same as they were in 2004-06.
Within
the UK, life expectancy varies by country. The highest expectations of life at age 65 occurred in England at 17.1 years for
men and 19.9 years for women and the lowest in Scotland at 15.8 years and 18.6 years respectively. The equivalent figures
for Wales and Northern Ireland are a little lower than those for England.
Life expectancy at birth is also at its highest
level for both males and females. Boys and girls born in the UK could expect on average to live to 76.9 years and 81.3 years
of age respectively.
The increase in life expectancy among older adults has been particularly dramatic in recent years. Between 1980-82 and
2004-06 life expectancy at age 65 in the UK increased by 4.0 years for men and 2.8 years for females. Around one-quarter of
this increase occurred over the last four years. In general the increases in life expectancy over the same period have been
broadly similar for each country. However, on average, for males in Scotland the increase was lower at 3.5 years. Conversely,
females in Northern Ireland experienced a higher increase of 3.3 years. By comparison, expectation of life at birth in the
UK has increased by 6.1 years for males and 4.5 years for females over the same period. Women continue to live longer than
men, but the gap has been closing in recent years.
Improving mortality rates mean that the chance of a new born boy
reaching age 65 has increased from 74 per cent (based on mortality rates experienced in 1980-82) to 84 per cent (based on
mortality rates in 2004-06). For females the chance has increased from 84 per cent to 90 per cent.
The above life expectancy
figures make no allowance for future changes in mortality. Allowing for the latest projected future improvements in mortality
from the 2006-based population projections the cohort life expectancy at birth in 2006 is projected to be 88.1 years for a
boy and 91.5 years for a girl. Cohort life expectancy for those aged 65 in 2006 is projected to be 20.6 years for males and
23.1 years for females. It is estimated that a boy born in the UK in 2006 will have a 91 per cent change of reaching age 65
and a girl a 94 per cent chance.
Source: Office for National Statistics;
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National Statistics Figures for 2007
Average Full time weekly earnings Male £498 per week Woman £394
per week.
The top 10% earned more than £906 per week while the bottom 10%
earned less than £252 per week.
The occupations with the highest earnings in 2007 were Health
Professionals (average £1019 per week) followed by Corporate managers (£702 per week)
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UK Government debt at the end of September 2008 was 645.3
billion pounds or 43.4% of GDP. This figure has increased by 30.9 billion in the last 6 months and up 130.8 billion in the
last 12 months. This figure had shot up to 799 billion or 56.6% of GDP in June 2009 meaning that each household owes £32,000.
In August 2008 the UK's goods deficit with the EU was 3 billion and 5.2 billion
with non EU countries. Excluding oil and erratic items the volume of exports was 5% lower than July and imports 1% higher.
The August 2008 Report on jobs from the REC & KPMG shows
that permanent placements fell at the sharpest rate since November 2001.Declining demand for staff and strongly rising candidate
availability led to salary growth being the weakest for over 5 years.
By May 2009 the UK had 2,381,000 unemployed the highest
level for 14 years plus of course record debt and an ex chancellor who reckoned he was prudent!! mmm .
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STATISTICS PROVIDED BY UK GOVERNMENT |
02/10/2008 Today the government published it's Annual UK Fuel
Poverty Statergy Annual Report.
Key Facts from it
3.5 million households spent more than 10% of income on heating
and powering their homes.
Households suffering from
fuel poverty in England rose from 1.5 million in 2005 to 2.4 million in 2006 and is expected to reach
3.5 million in 2008.
Across the UK 2.75 million vunerable households ie those with children, elderly, illness, were in fuel
poverty in 2006.
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NATIONWIDE HOUSE PRICE DATA FOR JULY 2009 |
House prices rose 1.3% in July
House prices are down 6.2% over last 12 months
Average UK house price £158,871 ( £161,797 september 2008)
Mortgage Approvals in November 2008 were 27,000 a record low
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UK MORTGAGES AND PROPERTY FIGURES |
Gross Mortgage lending in June 2009 was £12.3 billion
12,800 houses were repossed in the first quarter of 2009
Average outstanding mortgage balance in the U.K is £103707.
Average value of loan approval in November 2008 £117,000.
1.33% of mortgages are over 3 months in arrears at end of June
2008 this increased to 1.44% by the end of September 2008.
11,300 houses were repossed in the 3rd quarter of 2008.
According to a report from Shelter 2.8 million people have borrowed
money to pay their housing costs in the last 12 months.
July 2008 The chief executive of Savilles forecast house prices
in London to fall 25% by the end of next year.
In August 2008 28% of new mortgage loans were trackers and 58% were fixed
rate.
In May 2009 average loan value was £107,145 and the average
salary they were earning was £36,075
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UK EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT DATA JUNE 2009 |
In the 3 months to June unemployment rose by 220,000..
Unemployment stands at 2,435,000 million or 7.8%
Capita Economics forecast it will hit 3 million by Christmas 2010.
The working age employment rate is 72.7%
The number of job vacancies was down 26,000.
6.92 million people are employed by the public sector and 23.09 million in private sector. Over
last quarter private sector employment was down and public sector was up.
2.66 million people are employed in manufacturing industries. (down 212,000 in 12 months)
Average annual earnings increases were running at 3.7% in the public sector (excluding bonuses) but only 1.4%
in manufacturing.
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01/10/2008 According to the Times in the second quarter
of this year the average person only managed to save £16
Less than 50% of the UK population save regularly.
Research by the Yorkshire Building Society shows that the average
Briton's savings would last only 52 days if they were unable to work and 36% could only last 11 days.
According to a survey by Birmingham Midshires 22/05/2008 63%
of Britons have managed to save in the last 3 months and 60% have also had no need to raid their savings. (16% have taken
between £1000 and £4999 out of their savings)
In the 2nd Quarter of 2009 2.39Billion was withdrawn from the savings accounts
of UK Building Societies.
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In mid-2007 the resident population of the UK was 60,975,000. The average age was 39 years, up from 37 in 1997. Children
aged under 16 represented around one in five of the total population, around the same proportion as those of retirement age.
The
diagram above provides a visual representation of the age and sex structure of a population, known as a population pyramid.
Each bar represents a particular single year of age and the length shows the population of that age. Fertility, mortality
and migration determine the structure of the pyramid.
Up to the age of 72, the number of males and females are fairly
equal. At the top of the pyramid, from the age of 73 onwards, females outnumber their male counterparts. This is shown by
longer bars on the female side of the pyramid. The ratio of females to males increases progressively from 1.2 at age 73, to
nearly 3 by the age of 90. This reflects the higher life expectancy of women and higher male mortality during the Second World
War.
Further down the pyramid, people of working age (aged 16 to 64 for males and 16 to 59 for females) represent 62
per cent of the total mid-2007 population. Of those people within this age group, 52 per cent were aged below 40, whereas
the remaining
48 per cent were aged between 40 and 59/64 years.
In addition to increased life expectancy, there
are a number of other factors contributing to population ageing. The population pyramid shows the 'bulge' of the 'baby boomers'
of the 1960s moving into the older age bands. Furthermore, women born during the peak years immediately after World War Two
have now reached retirement age (at 60 years). Men born during this period will reach retirement age in 2012 (at age 65 years).
A
sharp tapering of the pyramid for people aged 30 to 36 reflects the low fertility in the mid to late 1970s. Another narrowing
of the pyramid appears between the ages of 5 and 19; this reflects the low fertility rates during the late 1980s and 1990s.
The number of births dropped to 663,000 in the year to mid-2002 but increased steadily from mid-2003 onwards broadening the
base of the pyramid.
Notes:
Average age - The 'median' average has been used here which means half the population
are older and half the population are younger.
People of 'retirement age' are those aged 65 and over for males and
60 and over for females.
source national statistics
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