Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2003

Table 3.2. Percentage of people employed broken down 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

65.1

70.0

73.1

64.3

71.6

57.8

Bridgnorth

81.9

94.0

92.1

70.5

87.3

75.1

Bromsgrove

84.6

94.8

90.8

79.7

88.6

80.1

Cannock Chase

78.2

77.1

86.1

70.6

82.5

73.3

Coventry

73.6

76.6

84.5

65.5

77.2

69.4

Dudley

76.9

81.0

82.7

73.2

80.9

72.3

East Staffordshire

84.3

83.7

85.1

85.6

88.8

79.1

Herefordshire, County of

79.0

82.8

85.7

71.7

83.9

73.5

Lichfield

71.7

75.5

82.3

63.3

74.5

68.4

Malvern Hills

81.7

87.7

85.1

76.1

88.7

74.0

Newcastle-under-Lyme

78.2

90.9

75.0

74.5

83.9

71.8

North Shropshire

80.6

89.4

84.9

75.7

86.6

73.6

North Warwickshire

74.4

85.0

85.4

59.4

80.3

67.9

Nuneaton and Bedworth

74.9

82.1

89.8

58.4

80.0

69.1

Oswestry

69.2

78.0

74.1

#

72.2

65.9

Redditch

75.3

68.9

89.3

63.2

82.8

67.4

Rugby

82.4

92.4

82.6

81.5

87.3

76.9

Sandwell

68.3

70.1

77.7

57.5

73.7

62.4

Shrewsbury and Atcham

80.4

77.1

91.3

72.1

83.0

77.4

Solihull

78.0

81.6

89.1

71.0

81.0

74.7

South Shropshire

75.7

84.2

90.8

65.8

80.4

70.1

South Staffordshire

85.7

93.7

94.5

76.8

89.4

81.5

Stafford

77.4

88.3

88.0

69.1

80.7

73.8

Staffordshire Moorlands

78.2

87.1

83.0

69.0

81.5

74.4

Stoke on Trent

69.5

79.4

77.5

56.3

72.9

65.7

Stratford-on-Avon

83.1

88.1

92.4

76.6

86.4

79.4

Tamworth

84.7

95.7

80.6

74.3

91.2

77.4

Telford and Wrekin

75.6

79.1

84.2

64.6

81.3

69.2

Walsall

72.5

79.2

81.0

65.7

79.4

64.7

Warwick

79.0

72.5

91.3

79.9

81.3

76.5

Wolverhampton

68.8

72.1

77.4

64.6

75.4

61.3

Worcester

78.8

79.2

81.8

77.4

82.7

74.5

Wychavon

81.6

88.0

86.6

81.2

82.1

81.0

Wyre Forest

81.0

93.4

87.9

69.5

82.4

79.3

West Midlands Region

74.3

79.0

82.2

68.5

79.1

68.9

Source: LFS 2001 via Nomis
# - deemed to be statistically unreliable
1 – those aged 16-64
2 – those aged 16-59


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