Newport Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 433.5 (54/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 69.3 (40/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 43,918.19 (51/62)
  • Population 2014 238,500 (39/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 71,000 (43/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 108,000 (40/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 24,175 (5/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.29 (32/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.29 (44/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 63.58 (56/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 49.44 (53/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 14.14 (21/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 36.42 (8/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 28.56 (12/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 7.87 (16/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 20 (62/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 88.96 (9/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 20.81 (31/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 0.35 (40/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.45 (37/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 0.5 (41/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.04 (56/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 0.37 (42/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 10.82 (41/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 45.57 (25/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 14.56 (33/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 29.06 (18/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 72.23 (57/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 12.77 (21/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 15 (5/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 3.29 (39/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 9.82 (33/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 5.91 (21/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 24.99 (34/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 56 (31/63)