Belfast Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 459 (35/63)
  • Population 2014 475,500 (16/63)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 21,260 (52/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 2.75 (4/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 1.39 (9/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 72.8 (13/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 40.82 (62/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 31.98 (2/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 27.2 (51/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 15.06 (63/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 12.14 (2/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 2,605 (25/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 59.02 (47/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 50.38 (3/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 1.32 (11/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 1.23 (6/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 1.11 (10/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.32 (22/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 1.15 (6/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 27.95 (17/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 31.98 (43/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 18.46 (27/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 21.61 (34/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 76.77 (33/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 13.03 (17/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 10.21 (45/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 5.16 (14/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 26.9 (1/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 2.69 (48/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 27.7 (18/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 37.55 (60/63)