London Borough of Hillingdon: local authority assessment

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Assessment published: 13 December 2024

About London Borough of Hillingdon

Demographics

Hillingdon is the second largest of London’s 32 boroughs covering 42 square miles. Over half of this is countryside, interspersed with historic towns and villages. It shares borders with Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hounslow, Ealing, and Harrow. The far south of Hillingdon is home to Heathrow Airport. Hayes, Yiewsley and West Drayton are more urban in nature.

The council footprint has an index of multiple deprivation score of 4, meaning it was slightly below midway between the most and least deprived. This overall score consists of some high-income and some high-deprivation areas. In 2019, 11.4% of the population of Hillingdon were income deprived.

Hillingdon has a population of 310,681. It currently has a greater proportion of children and young people at 23.36% (72,581) and people of working age 63.15% (196,203) as compared to the England averages of 20.82% and 60.57% respectively. The population is growing slightly, but most of the population growth is expected to be in adults over 65 predicted to increase from 13.49% (41,897) to 19.48 % (62,317) of the predicted population of 319,870 by 2041. Hillingdon is ethnically very diverse. 51.82% are from ethnic minority backgrounds including 33.32% of Asian or Asian British heritage.

Hillingdon is in the Northwest London Integrated Care System together with 7 other London boroughs. The local authority has a strong Place Based Partnership board (Hillingdon Health and Care Partnership) with other key stakeholders in Hillingdon. The London Borough of Hillingdon is a Conservative led council, with a 14% majority.

Financial facts

The Financial facts for London Borough of Hillingdon are:

• The local authority estimated that in 2022/23, its total budget would be £430,659,000. Its actual spend for that year was £465,044,000, which was £34,385,000 more than estimated.
• The local authority estimated that it would spend £78,792,000  of its total budget on adult social care in 2022/23 Its actual spend was £84,500,000 which is £5,708,000 more than estimated.
• In 2022/2023, 18% of the budget was spent on adult social care (ASC).
• The local authority has raised the full adult social care precept for 2023/24, with a value of 2% Please note that the amount raised through ASC precept varies from local authority to local authority.​
• Approximately 3785 people were accessing long-term adult social care support, and approximately 820 people were accessing short-term adult social care support in 2022/23. ​Local authorities spend money on a range of adult social care services, including supporting individuals. No two care packages are the same and vary significantly in their intensity, duration, and cost.

This data is reproduced at the request of the Department of Health and Social Care. It has not been factored into our assessment and is presented for information purposes only.