Preston Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 432.7 (55/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 71.5 (33/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 45,286.42 (42/62)
  • Population 2014 361,100 (22/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 121,500 (22/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 177,000 (19/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 21,890 (39/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.23 (34/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.64 (22/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 65.37 (46/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 60.15 (17/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 5.22 (60/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 34.59 (18/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 29.55 (9/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 5.04 (50/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 115 (58/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 87.02 (14/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 21.81 (27/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 0.7 (19/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.59 (27/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 0.65 (22/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.08 (47/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 0.54 (27/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 25.76 (21/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 28.57 (50/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 26.21 (11/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 19.46 (39/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 74.26 (53/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 13.3 (14/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 12.44 (14/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 3.53 (34/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 7.69 (46/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 2.28 (56/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 27.21 (19/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 59.3 (22/63)