Less than two miles separate the wealthiest and lowest earning areas of North Lincolnshire.
Households in Scunthorpe Ashby earns on average £29,700. A five minute car journey south on the A159 takes you to North Lincolnshire’s highest earning neighbourhood, Messingham and Scawby, with £44,800 earned on average here.
The £15,100 average household earnings inequality between two neighbourhoods within a couple of miles of each other is according to recently released Office for National Statistics data. Average household earnings by area for the financial year ending 2020 have been published.
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Scunthorpe Ashby’s figure is well over three times less than the highest earning neighbourhood in the country. However, when compared to the national average household earning of £32,000 in 2020, only five of North Lincolnshire’s 23 neighbourhoods were below this.
The second-lowest earning area was Scunthorpe Central and Crosby, £30,700, followed in third by Scunthorpe Frodingham, £31,300. The data does not reflect community strength in areas, nor initiatives to try to improve average earnings. But it does indicate areas where the cost of living pressures of recent months will have been felt particularly.
Behind Messingham and Scawby with the wealthiest earning households in North Lincolnshire are Westwoodside, Haxley and Owston Ferry, £43,500, and Kirton and Hibaldstow, £42,500 average earnings per household. These are still vastly dwarfed though by the nation’s highest earning neighbourhood, Clapham Common.
Households here earned on average £108,100 a year. This partly reflects a north vs south divide in earning figures, an economic inequality that has increasingly shaped rhetoric in British politics, such as ‘levelling up’.
Scunthorpe‘s recent selection as one of 55 places to get in the next decade £20m of towns funding cash was based on a government deprivation index. This took into account factors including life expectancy and median weekly pay.
A total of 45 of the lowest 50 earning neighbourhoods in 2020 in England and Wales are in the North. Yorkshire and the Humber accounts for 30 of them. Flipped around, 37 of the 50 highest earning neighbourhoods are in London, and none of the top 50 are further north than the East of England.
Original artice: https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe