Profile: Parliamentary Constituency - Tynemouth

Area (km2) : 30

Resident Population in 2001: 84,471

People eligible to vote: 64,023

Ethnic Groups (%)

    • White : 98.0
    • Mixed : 0.5
    • Asian : 0.9
    • Black : 0.2
    • Chinese/other : 0.4

Economically Active Population (Census 2001) : 39,506

Claimant Unemployment Rate* (March 2005) : 3.8

Constituent Census Wards:

    • Chirton
    • Collingwood
    • Cullercoats
    • Monkseaton
    • North Shields
    • St. Mary's
    • Seatonville
    • Tynemouth
    • Whitley Bay

* uses economically active population from 2001 Census as denominator.

Source: Population figures; 2001 Census Area Statistics, © Crown Copyright.  Ethnicity figures; 2001 Census Area Statistics, © Crown Copyright.  2001 Census Standard Tables, © Crown Copyright