Luton Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 479.3 (28/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 66.3 (53/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 51,127.93 (21/62)
  • Population 2014 211,000 (46/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 68,200 (46/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 92,300 (48/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 22,650 (25/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.14 (50/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.32 (40/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 64.1 (54/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 57.93 (27/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 6.17 (54/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 35.9 (10/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 30.85 (7/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 5.06 (49/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 155 (57/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 86.85 (15/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 21.24 (30/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 0.34 (41/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.38 (48/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 0.42 (47/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.15 (38/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 0.35 (46/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 18.65 (33/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 42.16 (29/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 16.93 (28/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 22.25 (32/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 76.72 (34/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 10.76 (43/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 12.53 (12/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 6.34 (8/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 5.32 (59/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 5.95 (20/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 22.2 (47/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 60.18 (18/63)