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The rich and the poor

These figures are based on surveys carried out where people were asked what they could afford. Based on their answers they were then placed in a category. For our purposes a good yardstick according to the academics is:

• Breadline Poor: You are not able to afford any holiday either in the UK or abroad and not able to save ten pounds a week.
• Asset Wealthy: You have assets whether in property or shares or pension of 300,000 pounds or over.
• Exclusive Wealthy: You take more than three foreign holidays a year. You are able to buy a new car outright from one of the top car makers (Mercedes, BMW etc), or you have an income of more than 100,000 pounds a year. If you tick any one of those boxes you are considered exclusive wealthy.

Of course, we have听 seen economic decline since these surveys were conducted, so more of us may be feeling breadline poor now.

Breadline Poor

Overall in 2000, 27% of the UK population was considered breadline poor. This increased from 21.3% in 1990 and 17.1% in 1980, but the figure in 1970 was 23.1%.
Across the North East and Cumbria, the breadline poor figure was 29.8%, compared to 24.7% a decade before, 19.5% in 1980 and 25.5% in 1970.

In the 91热爆 Tees patch, the breadline poor figure in 2000 was 30%. It was 24% in 1990, 19% in 1980 and 24% in 1970. Here are the highest figures in the Tees region.

1 MIDDLESBROUGH EAST 49.4% (1990 38.9%)(1980 29.4%)(1970 33.6%)
2 STOCKTON NORTON 40.9% (1990听 33.1%)(1980 24.8%)(1970 27.1%)
3 HARTLEPOOL EAST 39.4%(1990 30.5%)(1980 24.4%)(1970 28.8%)
4 REDCAR WEST 37.2% (1990 28.5%)(1980 21.5%)(1970 24.3%)
5 PETERLEE 35.6% (1990 27.5%)(1980 23.7%)(1970 28.4%)
6 DARLINGTON EAST 33.9%(1990 27.4%)(1980 20.0%)(1970 26.7%)
7 SPENNYMORE 32.1%(1990 25.8%)(1980 20.9%)(1970 27.5%)
8 MIDDLESBROUGH SOUTH 30.6% (1990 23.9%)(1980 18.1%)(1970 18.1%)
9 STOCKTON FAIRFIELD 29.3%(1990 22.3%)(1980 16.5%)(1970 21.1%)
10 EAST CLEVELAND 25.9%(1990 20.4%)(1980 15.7%)(1970 23.3%)

Asset Wealthy

1970 figures are not听 available. The regional figure for the North East and Cumbria is 11.8%. In the Tees region, the figure was 9.1% in 2006, 13% in 1990 and 10% in 1980.

This is one of the lowest figures in the country, beaten only by Newcastle and Glasgow, though the top ten for the Tees region still shows some significant pockets of wealth.

1 RICHMOND EAST 39.7% (1990 45.7%)(1980 30.7%)
2 RICHMOND WEST 32.9% (1990 36.2%)(1980 27.1%)
3 BARNARD CASTLE 22.5% (1990 29.6%)(1980 32.0%)
4 EAGLESCLIFFE 14.6% (1990 16.8%)(1980 15.2%)
5 EAST CLEVELAND 12.1% (1990 20.0%)(1980 9.2%)
6 DARLINGTON WEST 10.4% (1990 13.1%)(1980 17.1%)
7 MIDDLESBROUGH SOUTH 9.4% (1990 11.5%)(1980 9.6%)
8 CROOK 9.3% (1990 9.0%)(1980 10.5%)
9 MIDDLESBROUGH WEST 9.2% (1990 22.7%)(1980 18.3%)
10 SEDGEFIELD WEST 8.4%(1990 17.9%)(1980 6.5%)

Exclusive Wealthy

Again, 1970 figures are not available.

1 RICHMOND EAST 7.9%(1990 21.4%) (1980 10.8%)
2 RICHMOND WEST 3.1% (1990 1.6%)(1980 13.9%)
3 BILLINGHAM 2.8% (1990听 0.0%)(1980 1.8%)
4 BARNARD CASTLE 1.4% (1990 0.0%)(1980 8.4%)
5 MIDDLESBROUGH WEST 0.6% (1990 0.0%)(1980 0.7%)
6= DARLINGTON WEST 0.4% (1990 0.0%)(1980 2.5%)
6=STOCKTON NORTON 0.4% (1990听 0.0%)(1980 0.2%)
8 HARTLEPOOL EAST 0.3% (1990 0.2%)(1980 0.7%)