Leicester Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 456 (38/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 69.1 (42/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 45,927.54 (39/62)
  • Population 2014 489,400 (14/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 157,400 (12/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 234,800 (12/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 22,010 (37/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.33 (27/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.89 (14/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 67.83 (36/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 62.23 (8/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 5.6 (58/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 32.13 (28/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 28.01 (18/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 4.13 (56/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 765 (42/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 82.22 (30/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 27.81 (18/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 0.92 (14/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.8 (16/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 0.93 (14/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.26 (28/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 0.73 (15/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 25.71 (22/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 29.62 (48/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 23.72 (17/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 20.95 (35/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 79.31 (18/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 9.99 (49/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 10.7 (35/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 2.63 (48/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 8.95 (35/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 4.06 (32/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 24.73 (35/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 59.64 (20/63)