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For this blog i am looking at the sustainability of where i live. Tokers Green is a small Village on the border of Reading and South Oxfordshire. However where i live is in vast contrast to the current Biggest town Reading and the historical City of Oxford.

The super out put area is South Oxfordshire 020A, however there is very little information avaliable about this area as as this area covers 3small villages, two golf courses, Mapledurham Estate house and numerous farms. The area is beautifully hilly and green, however the busy A4074 runs behind Tokers Green and during school hours there is large amount of traffic running through the village as the local school within Kidmore End is sort after, as it has the quaint village, community style of a Church of England School.

There is a total population of 1,544 within April 2001. With 38.95% of People aged 16-74: Economically active: Employees Full-time it is lower than the 46.09% within South Oxfordshire (Non-metropolitan district). However there is an extremely high proportion of the population within this superout put area of people People aged 16-74: Self-employed of 14.78% which is far higher than the national average of England which is 8.32%.

Not only is there high self-employment within the area but there is a generally higher levels of education achieved within this area between levels 2 - 5 being the higher than within both the South East and England.

The area in thriving in its levels of employment and education but it also has a high level of house holds with cars or vans as only 5.56% of the houses do not have a car or van while in the rest on South Oxfordshire 12.74% have no cars or vans per a house hold. This is the down fall of living within this area is that there is limited public transport. As there is only a bus route along the A4074 running between Reading and Oxford or by walking over 20minutes to the next settlements. This causes a high density of traffic within the area, as well as limiting the elderly within the community as they are unable to walk the distance to the bus stops.

There is a sense of community spirit at times, as in the past five years the community have grouped together for fundraising to refurbish the park and to reconstruct a pond. However newer families are moving in from the Cities with large gates, a loss of identity might be lost.

References:

http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadHome.do;jessionid=ac1f930c30d7e14947527f424ebc91268339c3727cf0?m=0&s=1235561163626&enc=1&nsjs=true&nsck=true&nssvg=false&nswid=1003