This factsheet shows how Chatham compares to the five most similar European cities in terms of size and industrial structure. These are: Tours (France), Szczecin (Poland) Rouen (France), Alicante (Spain) Clermont-Ferrand (France)
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 Chatham to its European counterparts on variables such as skills, employment and productivity.
City group characteristics
Chatham and the cities in its group have a relatively large private services sector, and smaller business services sector.
Population
Industrial structure
Key
- Manufacturing, mining and utilities 2011
- Business services 2011
- Public services 2011
- Other private services 2011
- Other sectors 2011
Overall economic performance
Chatham has a high employment rate and ranks first in its group, but performs less well on other indicators. It does do relatively well on patents, performing much better than the next two cities in the group (Alicante and Szczecin).