1. Localized Council Tax Reduction scheme - EIA
Report written: May 2012
Localized Council Tax Reduction scheme - EIA

2. 1. Ward breakdown – count and percentages
Overall wards in the north of the borough have higher percentages of Council Tax Benefit recipients.
Golborne has the largest number of Council Tax Benefit recipients (13.2 per cent) followed by St. Charles (11.1 per cent) and Notting Barns (11 per cent).
Queen’s Gate (1.5 per cent), Campden (2 per cent) and Brompton (2.1 per cent) have the lowest per cent of claimants.

3. 2. Ethnicity
Compared to the overall population White groups are underrepresented (-26.7 per cent) and claimants from Black groups are overrepresented (+24.5 per cent).
Council Tax benefits claims
ONS ethnicity estimates for RBKC 2009
2a. Per cent difference of ethnic groups between Council Tax benefit claims and ONS ethnicity estimates for RBKC

4. 3. Age
Council Tax Benefit recipients have high proportions of residents aged over 40 compared to the borough population as a whole. Conversely those aged less than 40 are underrepresented.
3a. Per cent difference of age between Council Tax benefit claims and GLA age estimates for RBKC

5. 4. Disability 5. Religion 6. Gender
At least 27.6 per cent of Council Tax Benefit recipients receive benefits for disability or long-term sickness, which is used here as a proxy for disability. According to the Office for National Statistics approximately 14 per cent* of the borough’s population are disabled, suggesting that disabled people are over represented in Council Tax Benefit claimants.
*Though this is likely to have increased since the ONS published this statistic
5. Religion
No data is available for Council Tax Benefits recipients. Census data from 2001 states that 67 per cent of the population of Kensington and Chelsea are Christian, 14 per cent have no religion, 12 per cent are Muslim, two per cent are Buddhist, a further two per cent are Jewish and one per cent are Hindu.
6. Gender
59 per cent of Council Tax Benefit recipients are female, compared with 51 per cent of the wider population, therefore females are overrepresented and males underrepresented.

6. 9. Marriage and Civil Partnership
7. Sexual orientation
No available data, though the borough’s LGBT population is estimated by the ONS as constituting around six per cent of the population equating to 10,716 persons.
8. Gender reassignment
No available data for Council Tax Benefit recipients or for Kensington and Chelsea.
9. Marriage and Civil Partnership
No available data for Council Tax Benefit recipients Census data shows that 49 per cent have never been married, 28.8 per cent are married, 9.2 per cent are divorced and 5.6 per cent are widowed. There have been 751 Civil Partnerships since 2006.
10. Pregnancy and Maternity
No available data for Council Tax Benefit recipients or for Kensington and Chelsea (this data is released at Primary Care Trust geography).