how sustainable is my community?

The community that I currently live in is Kempston North in Bedfordshire. It has a population of over 5600 people with 3007 people per square kilometer. The area features a park, a lower school, a local swimming pool and a Sainsbury's shop.


Kempston North is only a small part of the whole town that I live in but I have been around some areas on Kempston South where the majority of the suburbs are. However I have only Lived in Kempston for just under 2 years after living in Queen's Park in Bedford for around 12 years.

In my view I feel that Kempston is a fairly sustainable community as it is ethnically diverse and has a slightly lower than average crime rate compared to the Bedford Borough area, and also a fairly decent life expectancy of 80 years. However, around 20% of the Kempston North area is Deprived, and having 13% of the population on out-of-work benefits, which is slightly higher than the Bedford Borough area. for schoolchildren in year 6 the percentage of obese children is fairly high at around 18% of the total population of year 6 children.

In conclusion I can agree that Kempston, in General, is averagely sustainable since it has all the mod cons for a sustainable community such as schools, hospitals and shops, however, like the rest of the UK, it suffers from child obesity, urban deprivation and unemployment.

below is the website where i got this information from:
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bedford.gov.uk%2Fcouncil_and_democracy%2Fstatistics_and_census%2Fidoc.ashx%3Fdocid%3D8c8af03d-8d1c-4833-bedf-ecedbbddb84c%26version%3D-1&rct=j&q=kempston%20age%20structure&ei=I6zlTOaLIIaxhQexqICuCQ&usg=AFQjCNFzC1r7T6Tc2vVCCFTTyAYqS1G94g&sig2=Lz10w7wcfyAXZEslcIjxEg&cad=rja