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E | | | EAST DORSET | DORSET | ENGLAND | . |
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| Population | Persons | 83,788 | 390,980 | 49,138,831 | |
| | Males | 39,979 | 188,780 | 23,922,144 | |
| | Females | 43,809 | 202,200 | 25,216,687 | |
| Percentage change since 1991 | 6.5 | 8.3 | 4.4 | |
| Population density (persons per hectare) | 2.4 | 1.5 | 3.8 | |
| Age structure | 0-15 years | 17.1 | 17.9 | 20.2 | |
| | 15-59 years | 51.3 | 52.8 | 59.1 | |
| | 60-74 years | 18.9 | 17.6 | 13.2 | |
| | 75+ years | 12.7 | 11.7 | 7.5 | |
| Ethnicity | White British | 97.2 | 96.8 | 87.0 | |
| | White Irish | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.3 | |
| | White Other | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.7 | |
| | Mixed | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
| | Asian | 0.2 | 0.2 | 4.6 | |
| | Black | 0.1 | 0.1 | 2.3 | |
| | Chinese | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.9 | |
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S | Household Composition | Pensioner | 35.8 | 33.4 | 23.8 | |
| | Married | 41.0 | 37.7 | 36.5 | |
| | Co-habiting | 5.9 | 7.0 | 8.3 | |
| | Lone Parent | 5.7 | 6.8 | 9.5 | |
| | Other | 11.6 | 15.1 | 21.8 | |
| Households without either central heating, bath/shower & toilet or both | 3.6 | 7.2 | 8.8 | |
| Households without a car/van | 11.6 | 17.0 | 26.8 | |
| Tenure | Owned outright | 45.7 | 41.0 | 29.2 | |
| | Buying with a mortgage or loan | 38.3 | 34.8 | 38.9 | |
| | Rented - council/housing association | 4.9 | 7.7 | 19.3 | |
| | Rented - private | 8.1 | 12.1 | 8.8 | |
| | Other | 3.1 | 4.4 | 3.9 | |
| Average number of people per household | 2.32 | 2.26 | 2.36 | |
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T | Economic Activity | % Economically Active | 64.8 | 64.9 | 66.9 | |
| of which | % part-time | 13.5 | 13.5 | 11.8 | |
| | % full-time | 36.0 | 35.9 | 40.8 | |
| | % self-employed | 11.3 | 11.4 | 8.3 | |
| | % unemployed | 1.7 | 2.0 | 3.4 | |
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| | % Economically Inactive | 35.2 | 35.1 | 33.1 | |
| of which | % retired | 21.7 | 19.7 | 13.5 | |
| | % students | 2.3 | 2.8 | 4.7 | |
| Occupations | Managerial/professional/technical | 43.4 | 39.7 | 40.3 | |
| | skilled manual/non-manual | 41.4 | 41.6 | 39.5 | |
| | partly skilled & unskilled | 15.2 | 18.7 | 20.2 | |
| Percentage with no qualifications | 25.4 | 26.2 | 28.9 | |
| Percentage with higher qualifications | 18.7 | 18.3 | 19.9 | |
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H | Percentage with limiting long term illness/disability/health problem | 18.4 | 19.2 | 17.9 | |
| General health | Good | 68.9 | 68.1 | 68.8 | |
| | Fairly good | 23.2 | 23.5 | 22.2 | |
| | Not good | 7.9 | 8.4 | 9.0 | |
| Percentage providing unpaid care | 11.1 | 10.8 | 9.9 | |
| Percentage in medical/care communal establishment | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 | |
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