Birkenhead Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 422.2 (60/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 67.8 (48/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 43,450.97 (55/62)
  • Population 2014 320,900 (29/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 63,300 (50/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 100,400 (45/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 21,380 (49/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.29 (31/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.33 (38/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 66.41 (40/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 53.18 (48/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 13.23 (23/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 33.59 (24/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 22.89 (37/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 10.7 (3/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 -1,070 (19/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 0.36 (38/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.63 (25/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 0.69 (19/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.05 (51/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 0.53 (28/63)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 40.48 (32/63)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 59.52 (2/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 76.46 (37/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 12.87 (20/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 10.67 (36/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 2.8 (45/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 5.63 (56/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 5.74 (22/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 22.63 (43/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 63.22 (9/63)