Victorian Low Status

The areas of Victorian Low Status housing are generally those in which there is a traditional community spirit, where younger families and older childless couples live in a well-balanced community. The housing tends to be owner-occupied and privately rented terraced housing. That the incidence of this group is infrequent in Suffolk reflects the low levels of housing occupation in the county during the Victorian era.

These more established communities tend to live towards the centre of towns and offer a less suburban lifestyle for those who prefer it. Although there is a high degree of social contact within the area, there is also a high degree of tolerance that allows the members of this group to experiment with different lifestyles.

Lifestyle products do not necessarily drive the group and the accumulation of material wealth might not be a key factor for the group. An important dynamic of the group is that it tends to be relatively well educated, but has rejected the accumulation of material wealth as the main objective of their lives.

There are three sub-groups to this Tribe present in Suffolk - the Bohemian Melting Pot, the Rootless Renters, and the Rejuvenated Terraces. The Bohemian Melting Pot and the Rejuvenated Terraces sub-groups tend to be young, middle class, urban singles and childless couples, who work in white collar occupations. The Rootless Renter sub-group, on the other hand, tends to be a low income urban sub-group, who tend o work mainly in blue collar and low income service sector jobs.

Despite the commonalities between the Bohemian Melting Pot and the Rejuvenated Terraces sub-groups, the commonality has its limitations that shows in their respective preferences. The Bohemian Melting Pot sub-group shows a liking for Foreign Culture, Health Clubs, and the Espresso Culture. The Rejuvenated Terrace sub-group, on the other hand, expresses a preference for Home Improvements, Outdoor Pursuits, and Financial Services. The distinction between the two groups is that the Rejuvenated Terrace sub-group are passing through this form of housing tenure, whilst the Bohemian Melting Pot sub-group is likely to stay much longer in this form of housing tenure.

For the sake of completeness, the Rootless Renter sub-group has a preference for televised sport shown over the Satellite Channels. In many ways, this group has more in common with the Low Rise Council Tribe.

This mutual antipathy of the sub-groups shows even further in their dislikes. The Bohemian Melting Pot sub-group dislikes the Financial Services liked by the Rejuvenated Terrace sub-group, and the televised sport shown over the Satellite Channels liked by the Rootless Renter sub-group. Equally, the Rejuvenated Terrace sub-group has an antipathy towards the televised sport shown over the Satellite Channels liked by the Rootless Renter sub-group. Finally, the Rootless Renter sub-group exhibits a dislike for the Financial Services liked by the Rejuvenated Terrace sub-group.

In many ways, the areas inhabited by this Tribe show an uneasy truce between the sub-groups, who do not necessarily get on that well with each other.

As the group is defined by the period in which their housing originates, by definition it cannot grow. It can only declined as the old Victorian housing is demolished to make way for newer housing. This did not happen to that great an extent during the period 1980 to 2000. There are also no plans for a significant change to this group in the period to 2020.

However, the relative balance between the various sub-groups can change, and this will prove to be a very critical uncertainty in the coming years. If the Rootless Renter sub-group makes way for the Bohemian Melting Pot sub-group, then this could have a profound effect upon the economic prospects for the county, according to the model outlined by Professor Florida. This could be quite critical to the future development of Suffolk.

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LOCATION

In Suffolk, the Victorian Low Status Tribe are the primary Tribe in the following Post Code Sectors:

IP0101, IP0102, IP0104, IP0208, IP0308, IP0401, IP0402, NR3300.

In Suffolk, the Victorian Low Status Tribe are the secondary Tribe in the following Post Code Sectors:

CB0800, IP0105, IP1909, IP2308, IP3301.

Click Here to link to a map that shows the locations of the Tribe in Suffolk. The area shaded in Purple is where the Victorian Low Status Tribe are the primary Tribe, and the area shaded in Orange is where the Victorian Low Status Tribe are the secondary Tribe.