Population | Ventnor Town Council on the Isle of Wight

PopulationFri, 24th September 2021

The latest official estimate – mid-2009 – put Ventnor’s population at a total of 6,180, with 3,083 in Ventnor East and 3,097 in Ventnor West. The age profile is:

Age	East	West	Total	%
0-15	416	441	857	13.87
16-29	426	405	831	13.45
30-44	491	401	892	14.43
44-pension	845	799	1644	26.60
Pension+	905	1051	1956	31.65
All	3,083	3,097	6,180	100.00

The almost one in three of its population over retirement age compares with the just over a quarter (27.77%) of the Island’s 140,000 whole population and one in five of the population of England & Wales.

The Ward based figures conceal even greater variations between smaller areas of the town.

As regeneration programmes have increasingly concentrated on neighbourhoods, the government increasingly provides statistics for each of what it calls Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs). There are 34,378 in England & Wales with 89 on the Island and 4 in Ventnor.

The boundaries – and official numbers – of Ventnor’s 4 are:

Population

Within these areas the percentage of the population over retirement age varies from a low of 20.30% in 018D, through 25.79% in 018A and 33.38% in 018B to a high of 47.20% in 018C.