Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2003

Table 3.1. Percentage of people economically active by Local Authority, age and sex, 2001



 

Both sexes

 

 

Local authority

Working
age

25-34

35-49

50-
retirement

Males
working age1

Females
working age2

Birmingham

71.1

75.1

77.1

68.6

79.7

61.5

Bridgnorth

84.6

94.0

93.7

72.2

89.3

78.8

Bromsgrove

85.1

97.4

90.8

79.7

88.6

81.2

Cannock Chase

84.3

86.7

87.4

75.5

88.8

79.2

Coventry

78.1

82.0

87.7

68.5

83.3

72.3

Dudley

82.2

85.5

86.9

76.9

87.2

76.5

East Staffordshire

86.7

90.5

86.3

85.6

92.6

80.0

Herefordshire, County of

81.8

84.8

88.4

74.6

87.6

75.4

Lichfield

73.9

80.5

83.4

64.7

77.1

70.2

Malvern Hills

83.2

91.6

85.1

78.3

91.5

74.0

Newcastle-under-Lyme

81.0

92.6

79.4

74.5

86.9

74.4

North Shropshire

81.6

89.4

86.4

77.7

87.6

74.6

North Warwickshire

76.2

88.5

86.8

59.4

80.3

71.7

Nuneaton and Bedworth

80.8

86.9

92.1

62.1

85.7

75.1

Oswestry

76.7

89.1

78.0

#

82.9

69.9

Redditch

77.9

68.9

91.0

64.7

86.3

69.0

Rugby

85.3

94.4

88.3

81.5

89.3

80.8

Sandwell

75.3

78.3

85.3

60.5

83.1

66.7

Shrewsbury and Atcham

83.1

82.0

92.2

73.1

86.4

79.5

Solihull

82.4

87.1

90.4

74.8

85.6

78.9

South Shropshire

77.3

84.2

90.8

68.1

81.8

71.9

South Staffordshire

86.3

93.7

94.5

79.1

90.7

81.5

Stafford

79.4

89.8

88.0

71.2

82.5

75.9

Staffordshire Moorlands

80.4

87.1

87.8

69.0

82.4

78.0

Stoke on Trent

75.2

84.1

81.6

61.1

79.5

70.3

Stratford-on-Avon

84.5

88.1

92.4

79.0

88.4

80.2

Tamworth

86.3

95.7

83.6

76.6

91.2

80.8

Telford and Wrekin

79.3

84.8

86.5

67.5

85.7

72.1

Walsall

76.8

84.1

83.8

68.8

83.7

68.9

Warwick

82.5

80.8

93.3

81.2

85.7

78.9

Wolverhampton

74.4

76.9

80.7

67.3

82.1

65.7

Worcester

82.7

84.1

87.4

77.4

86.0

79.1

Wychavon

84.0

91.1

86.6

82.5

85.9

82.0

Wyre Forest

82.3

93.4

87.9

71.3

84.1

80.1

  West Midlands Region

78.5

83.4

85.1

71.2

84.2

72.1

Source: LFS 2001 via Nomis
1 – those aged 16-64 2 – those aged 16-59


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