UNEMPLOYMENT BRIEFING
UNEMPLOYMENT BRIEFING September 2009
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Introduction This is the April 2009 issue of the Economic Development Unit’s Unemployment Briefing. The Office of National Statistics releases unemployment data on its NOMIS website at monthly intervals (www.nomisweb.co.uk) and this briefing is produced using that data This report contains unemployment information for the month and presents this data for travel to work areas, local authorities, wards, counties, regions and nationally.
Travel to Work Area In September 2009, only two Travel to Work Areas (TTWA) experienced an increase in unemployment levels. These were Ipswich TTWA and Wisbech TTWA. Norwich TTWA experienced the largest numerical decrease with 231 claimants leaving the register whilst Haverhill & Sudbury experienced the largest percentage decrease of 5.0 percent. Great Yarmouth TTWA experienced a loss of 11 claimants, a percentage decrease of 0.3 percent. The unemployment rate for September was 5.5 percent of the working age population. The corresponding rate for twelve months ago was 3.8 percent of the working age population with 2187 claimants in the travel to work area.
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Map 1: Travel to Work Areas – Unemployment Rate September 2009
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Table 1 – Travel to Work Areas Claimants August 09
Claimants Sept 09
1,281 4,950 1,115 713 477 3,176
1,223 4,916 1,075 683 469 3,165
1,844
1,751
2,598 6,038 2,646
2,511 6,050 2,559
2,834
2,805
758 8,086 6,748 1,315 2,184 661
741 7,855 6,895 1,252 2,193 647
Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cromer Diss Fakenham Great Yarmouth Haverhill and Sudbury Huntingdon Ipswich King's Lynn Lowestoft and Beccles Mildenhall Norwich Peterborough Thetford Wisbech Woodbridge
Number Percentage Prop'n of Change Change working age -58 -34 -40 -30 -8 -11
-4.5 -0.7 -3.6 -4.2 -1.7 -0.3
-93 -87 12 -87
-5.0 -3.3 0.2 -3.3
-29 -17 -231 147 -63 9 -14
-1.0 -2.2 -2.9 2.2 -4.8 0.4 -2.1
2.5 2.4 3.2 2.6 2.5 5.5 3.5 2.8 3.8 3.7 4.3 2.5 3.5 5.2 3.5 4.4 1.9
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for 1998 TTWAs are calculated using the mid-2001 resident working age population.
Local Authority Areas Only one Norfolk authority experienced an increase in their unemployment figures which was South Norfolk who saw an increase of 19 claimants from the previous month. Breckland experienced the largest numerical and percentage decrease with 145 people leaving the register representing a fall of 5.6 percent from the previous month. Great Yarmouth saw no change in its unemployment figures, remaining at 3,046 claimants. This represents 5.6 percent of the working age population. This places the Borough in joint 37th position out of the 354 English authorities. The corresponding rate twelve months ago was 3.9 percent of the working age population placing Great Yarmouth in joint 20th position. Great Yarmouth’s share of Norfolk’s population has increased slightly this month to 17.5 percent, an increase from 17.1 percent last month. Twelve months ago, the share was 19.6 percent.
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Map 2 – Norfolk Local Authorities September 2009
Table 2 - Norfolk Local Authorities
Breckland Broadland Great Yarmouth King's Lynn and West Norfolk North Norfolk Norwich South Norfolk
Claimants August 2009 2,567 1,592 3,046
Claimants Sept 2009
2,847
2,773
1,701 4,385 1,718
1,640 4,275 1,737
2,422 1,506 3,046
Number Percentage Change Change -145 -86 0
-5.6 -5.4 0.0
-74 -61 -110 19
-2.6 -3.6 -2.5 1.1
Prop'n of working age 3.2 2.1 5.6 3.4 3.1 4.8 2.6
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for local authorities from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
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Table 3 – National Local Authority Areas Top 50 authorities with the highest unemployment. Number of Prop'n of claimants working age population Birmingham Wolverhampton Kingston upon Hull Sandwell Liverpool Walsall Middlesbrough Hartlepool Hackney Tower Hamlets Leicester City South Tyneside Knowsley Haringey North East Lincolnshire Nottingham Newham Redcar and Cleveland Corby Rochdale Dudley Wear Valley Halton Waltham Forest Sunderland Wansbeck Coventry Stoke on Trent Manchester Barking and Dagenham Islington Lambeth Hastings Thanet Doncaster Rotherham
51,611 11,768 13,564 13,797 21,514 11,223 6,431 3,937 9,884 10,695 13,108 6,274 6,289 9,890 6,039 12,392 10,371 5,156 2,080 7,710 11,132 2,263 4,498 8,601 10,331 2,236 11,430 8,842 18,241
8.2 8.2 8.1 7.9 7.6 7.5 7.4 7.1 7.0 7.0 6.9 6.8 6.7 6.3 6.3 6.2 6.2 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.1 6.0 6.0 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.8
5,852
5.7
7,863 11,194 2,942 4,095 10,068 8,838
5.7 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.7
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Great Yarmouth Peterborough Lincoln Sedgefield Stockton on Tees Wirral Easington Oldham Salford Lewisham Sefton Barnsley Brent Greenwich
3,046 5,711 3,229 2,954 6,657 10,353 3,129 7,356 7,659 9,634 8,678 7,436 9,563 7,728
5.6 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.3
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for local authorities from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
Ward Figures Eight of the seventeen wards experienced a decrease in the levels of unemployment with Central & Northgate and East Flegg experiencing the largest numerical fall with 13 people leaving the register. Fleggburgh experienced the largest percentage decrease with a change of -15.4 percent from the previous month. Of the nine wards that experienced an increase, Southtown & Cobholm saw an additional 19 new claimants whilst Magdalen saw an increase of 7.5 percent from the previous month. Nelson ward continues to have the highest unemployment rate with 13.4 percent of the working age population. Southtown & Cobholm ward has a rate of 10.4 percent and Central & Northgate ward has a rate of 9.8 percent.
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Map 3 – Wards September 2009
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Table 4 – Ward Figures Claimants Claimants August Sept 09 09 Bradwell North Bradwell South and Hopton Caister North Caister South Central and Northgate Claydon East Flegg Fleggburgh Gorleston Lothingland Magdalen Nelson Ormesby Southtown and Cobholm St Andrews West Flegg Yarmouth North
97
85
79
88
83 88 495 264 97 39 100 106 186 663 69
76 81 482 277 84 33 101 111 200 659 72
290
309
157 82 151
159 83 146
Number Change
Percentage Prop'n of Change working age
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-12.4
9 -7 -7 -13 13 -13 -6 1 5 14 -4 3
11.4 -8.4 -8.0 -2.6 4.9 -13.4 -15.4 1.0 4.7 7.5 -0.6 4.3
19 2 1 -5
6.6 1.3 1.2 -3.3
2.3 2.4 2.8 3.6 9.8 6.4 3.1 2.2 3.8 3.2 5.2 13.4 2.9 10.4 5.5 3.0 5.8
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for wards in England and Wales from 2007 onwards are calculated using the mid2006 resident working age population.
County Figures Norfolk experienced a decrease in its unemployment levels during September 2009 with 457 people leaving the register. This represents a percentage fall of 2.6 percent from the previous month. Overall, the unemployment rate for the county was 3.2 percent of the working age population.
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Table 5 – County County Name
Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Hertfordshire Luton Norfolk Peterborough Southend-on-sea Suffolk Thurrock Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Buckinghamshire East Sussex Hampshire Isle of Wight Kent Medway Milton Keynes Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Slough Southampton Surrey West Berkshire West Sussex Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham
Number of claimants
8,923 9,845 28,730 19,727 6,243 17,399 5,711 4,984 13,536 4,165 1,915 7,507 7,390 9,628 19,410 3,202 27,829 7,194 7,477 9,240 5,388 4,257 3,443 6,639 14,502 2,258 13,671
Prop'n of working age population 3.5 2.6 3.4 3.0 5.2 3.5 5.6 5.2 3.2 4.4 2.6 4.4 2.5 3.4 2.5 4.1 3.3 4.5 5.0 2.3 4.1 4.4 4.4 4.2 2.1 2.4 3.0
2,220
2.5
2,032
2.0
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for local authorities from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
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Regional Figures The Eastern region experienced a decrease of 1.3 percent from the previous month with 1631 people leaving the register. In total there were 119,263 claimants representing 3.5 percent of the working age population. Table 6 – Regional Government Office Region
East East Midlands London North East North West South East South West West Midlands Yorkshire and The Humber Wales Scotland Northern Ireland
Number of claimants
119,263 111,735 226,910 85,076 199,744 155,202 93,283 182,389
Prop'n of working age population 3.5 4.1 4.5 5.3 4.7 3.0 3.0 5.6
155,540
4.8
78,909 129,569 53,492
4.4 4.0 4.9
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for regions and countries from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
National Figures The September 2009 unemployment count for England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom are as follows: Table 7 – National Number of claimants
England Great Britain United Kingdom
1,329,142 1,537,620 1,591,112
Prop'n of working age population 4.2 4.2 4.2
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for regions and countries from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
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Graph showing trend over the past twelve months Unemployment Rate
Unemployment rate
7 6 Great Yarmouth
5
Norfolk
4
East UK
3 2 1 0 Sep- Oct- Nov- Dec- Jan- Feb- Mar- Apr- May- Jun- Jul- Aug- Sep08 08 08 08 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09
Further Information If you would like any further information or have any comments regarding this briefing, please contact Ellie Marcham on 01493 846431 or email [email protected]
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Introduction This is the April 2009 issue of the Economic Development Unit’s Unemployment Briefing. The Office of National Statistics releases unemployment data on its NOMIS website at monthly intervals (www.nomisweb.co.uk) and this briefing is produced using that data This report contains unemployment information for the month and presents this data for travel to work areas, local authorities, wards, counties, regions and nationally.
Travel to Work Area In September 2009, only two Travel to Work Areas (TTWA) experienced an increase in unemployment levels. These were Ipswich TTWA and Wisbech TTWA. Norwich TTWA experienced the largest numerical decrease with 231 claimants leaving the register whilst Haverhill & Sudbury experienced the largest percentage decrease of 5.0 percent. Great Yarmouth TTWA experienced a loss of 11 claimants, a percentage decrease of 0.3 percent. The unemployment rate for September was 5.5 percent of the working age population. The corresponding rate for twelve months ago was 3.8 percent of the working age population with 2187 claimants in the travel to work area.
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Map 1: Travel to Work Areas – Unemployment Rate September 2009
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Table 1 – Travel to Work Areas Claimants August 09
Claimants Sept 09
1,281 4,950 1,115 713 477 3,176
1,223 4,916 1,075 683 469 3,165
1,844
1,751
2,598 6,038 2,646
2,511 6,050 2,559
2,834
2,805
758 8,086 6,748 1,315 2,184 661
741 7,855 6,895 1,252 2,193 647
Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cromer Diss Fakenham Great Yarmouth Haverhill and Sudbury Huntingdon Ipswich King's Lynn Lowestoft and Beccles Mildenhall Norwich Peterborough Thetford Wisbech Woodbridge
Number Percentage Prop'n of Change Change working age -58 -34 -40 -30 -8 -11
-4.5 -0.7 -3.6 -4.2 -1.7 -0.3
-93 -87 12 -87
-5.0 -3.3 0.2 -3.3
-29 -17 -231 147 -63 9 -14
-1.0 -2.2 -2.9 2.2 -4.8 0.4 -2.1
2.5 2.4 3.2 2.6 2.5 5.5 3.5 2.8 3.8 3.7 4.3 2.5 3.5 5.2 3.5 4.4 1.9
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for 1998 TTWAs are calculated using the mid-2001 resident working age population.
Local Authority Areas Only one Norfolk authority experienced an increase in their unemployment figures which was South Norfolk who saw an increase of 19 claimants from the previous month. Breckland experienced the largest numerical and percentage decrease with 145 people leaving the register representing a fall of 5.6 percent from the previous month. Great Yarmouth saw no change in its unemployment figures, remaining at 3,046 claimants. This represents 5.6 percent of the working age population. This places the Borough in joint 37th position out of the 354 English authorities. The corresponding rate twelve months ago was 3.9 percent of the working age population placing Great Yarmouth in joint 20th position. Great Yarmouth’s share of Norfolk’s population has increased slightly this month to 17.5 percent, an increase from 17.1 percent last month. Twelve months ago, the share was 19.6 percent.
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Map 2 – Norfolk Local Authorities September 2009
Table 2 - Norfolk Local Authorities
Breckland Broadland Great Yarmouth King's Lynn and West Norfolk North Norfolk Norwich South Norfolk
Claimants August 2009 2,567 1,592 3,046
Claimants Sept 2009
2,847
2,773
1,701 4,385 1,718
1,640 4,275 1,737
2,422 1,506 3,046
Number Percentage Change Change -145 -86 0
-5.6 -5.4 0.0
-74 -61 -110 19
-2.6 -3.6 -2.5 1.1
Prop'n of working age 3.2 2.1 5.6 3.4 3.1 4.8 2.6
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for local authorities from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
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Table 3 – National Local Authority Areas Top 50 authorities with the highest unemployment. Number of Prop'n of claimants working age population Birmingham Wolverhampton Kingston upon Hull Sandwell Liverpool Walsall Middlesbrough Hartlepool Hackney Tower Hamlets Leicester City South Tyneside Knowsley Haringey North East Lincolnshire Nottingham Newham Redcar and Cleveland Corby Rochdale Dudley Wear Valley Halton Waltham Forest Sunderland Wansbeck Coventry Stoke on Trent Manchester Barking and Dagenham Islington Lambeth Hastings Thanet Doncaster Rotherham
51,611 11,768 13,564 13,797 21,514 11,223 6,431 3,937 9,884 10,695 13,108 6,274 6,289 9,890 6,039 12,392 10,371 5,156 2,080 7,710 11,132 2,263 4,498 8,601 10,331 2,236 11,430 8,842 18,241
8.2 8.2 8.1 7.9 7.6 7.5 7.4 7.1 7.0 7.0 6.9 6.8 6.7 6.3 6.3 6.2 6.2 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.1 6.0 6.0 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.8
5,852
5.7
7,863 11,194 2,942 4,095 10,068 8,838
5.7 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.7
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Great Yarmouth Peterborough Lincoln Sedgefield Stockton on Tees Wirral Easington Oldham Salford Lewisham Sefton Barnsley Brent Greenwich
3,046 5,711 3,229 2,954 6,657 10,353 3,129 7,356 7,659 9,634 8,678 7,436 9,563 7,728
5.6 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.3
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for local authorities from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
Ward Figures Eight of the seventeen wards experienced a decrease in the levels of unemployment with Central & Northgate and East Flegg experiencing the largest numerical fall with 13 people leaving the register. Fleggburgh experienced the largest percentage decrease with a change of -15.4 percent from the previous month. Of the nine wards that experienced an increase, Southtown & Cobholm saw an additional 19 new claimants whilst Magdalen saw an increase of 7.5 percent from the previous month. Nelson ward continues to have the highest unemployment rate with 13.4 percent of the working age population. Southtown & Cobholm ward has a rate of 10.4 percent and Central & Northgate ward has a rate of 9.8 percent.
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Map 3 – Wards September 2009
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Table 4 – Ward Figures Claimants Claimants August Sept 09 09 Bradwell North Bradwell South and Hopton Caister North Caister South Central and Northgate Claydon East Flegg Fleggburgh Gorleston Lothingland Magdalen Nelson Ormesby Southtown and Cobholm St Andrews West Flegg Yarmouth North
97
85
79
88
83 88 495 264 97 39 100 106 186 663 69
76 81 482 277 84 33 101 111 200 659 72
290
309
157 82 151
159 83 146
Number Change
Percentage Prop'n of Change working age
-12
-12.4
9 -7 -7 -13 13 -13 -6 1 5 14 -4 3
11.4 -8.4 -8.0 -2.6 4.9 -13.4 -15.4 1.0 4.7 7.5 -0.6 4.3
19 2 1 -5
6.6 1.3 1.2 -3.3
2.3 2.4 2.8 3.6 9.8 6.4 3.1 2.2 3.8 3.2 5.2 13.4 2.9 10.4 5.5 3.0 5.8
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for wards in England and Wales from 2007 onwards are calculated using the mid2006 resident working age population.
County Figures Norfolk experienced a decrease in its unemployment levels during September 2009 with 457 people leaving the register. This represents a percentage fall of 2.6 percent from the previous month. Overall, the unemployment rate for the county was 3.2 percent of the working age population.
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Table 5 – County County Name
Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Hertfordshire Luton Norfolk Peterborough Southend-on-sea Suffolk Thurrock Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Buckinghamshire East Sussex Hampshire Isle of Wight Kent Medway Milton Keynes Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Slough Southampton Surrey West Berkshire West Sussex Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham
Number of claimants
8,923 9,845 28,730 19,727 6,243 17,399 5,711 4,984 13,536 4,165 1,915 7,507 7,390 9,628 19,410 3,202 27,829 7,194 7,477 9,240 5,388 4,257 3,443 6,639 14,502 2,258 13,671
Prop'n of working age population 3.5 2.6 3.4 3.0 5.2 3.5 5.6 5.2 3.2 4.4 2.6 4.4 2.5 3.4 2.5 4.1 3.3 4.5 5.0 2.3 4.1 4.4 4.4 4.2 2.1 2.4 3.0
2,220
2.5
2,032
2.0
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for local authorities from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
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Regional Figures The Eastern region experienced a decrease of 1.3 percent from the previous month with 1631 people leaving the register. In total there were 119,263 claimants representing 3.5 percent of the working age population. Table 6 – Regional Government Office Region
East East Midlands London North East North West South East South West West Midlands Yorkshire and The Humber Wales Scotland Northern Ireland
Number of claimants
119,263 111,735 226,910 85,076 199,744 155,202 93,283 182,389
Prop'n of working age population 3.5 4.1 4.5 5.3 4.7 3.0 3.0 5.6
155,540
4.8
78,909 129,569 53,492
4.4 4.0 4.9
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for regions and countries from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
National Figures The September 2009 unemployment count for England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom are as follows: Table 7 – National Number of claimants
England Great Britain United Kingdom
1,329,142 1,537,620 1,591,112
Prop'n of working age population 4.2 4.2 4.2
Source: ONS Crown Copyright Note: Rates for regions and countries from 2008 onwards are calculated using the mid-2007 resident working age population.
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Graph showing trend over the past twelve months Unemployment Rate
Unemployment rate
7 6 Great Yarmouth
5
Norfolk
4
East UK
3 2 1 0 Sep- Oct- Nov- Dec- Jan- Feb- Mar- Apr- May- Jun- Jul- Aug- Sep08 08 08 08 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09
Further Information If you would like any further information or have any comments regarding this briefing, please contact Ellie Marcham on 01493 846431 or email [email protected]
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