How is the Warrington economy performing, and what are the key policy issues facing the city?
This factsheet compares Warrington to the five most similar European cities in size and industrial structure. These are: Europ’ Essonne (Massy) (France) Almere (Netherlands) Oberhausen (Germany) A Coruña (Spain) Castellón de la Plana (Spain)
Comparing cities in this way helps us to understand more about how well UK cities are competing on an international scale because it groups cities with similar industrial structures, rather than on their resulting economic performance. The factsheet also compares the relative strengths and weaknesses of Warrington to its European counterparts on variables such as skills, employment and productivity.
Warrington and the cities in its group are small with a large private and business services sector, their public sectors are relatively small.
Warrington performs well within its group across the indicators. It is ranked highly in particular on GVA, jobs and patents.