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There are 5,876 people living in the area and we are experiencing higher population growth than the rest of West Lothian and Scotland generally. Proportionally, we have a higher number of children and young people and a lower number of older people aged 65+. There are a significantly high number of lone parent households (37.4% of families compared to the national average of 27.6%).<\/p>\n

Blackburn is a priority area for the Council. Over half of all residents live in the 20% most deprived SIMD areas (5 of the 8 SIMD areas (Data Zones) in Blackburn are within 20% of the most deprived areas in Scotland. 1 is within the top 10% of most deprived areas and 1 is within the top 5% of most deprived areas.<\/p>\n

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There are 5,876 people living in the area and we are experiencing higher population growth than the rest of West Lothian and Scotland generally. Proportionally, we have a higher number of children and young people and a lower number of older people aged 65+. There are a significantly high number of lone parent households (37.4%… Read More »Blackburn in Numbers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-425","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackburnwestlothian.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackburnwestlothian.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackburnwestlothian.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackburnwestlothian.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackburnwestlothian.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blackburnwestlothian.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/blackburnwestlothian.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackburnwestlothian.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}