Wakefield Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 447.8 (46/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 71.5 (34/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 44,183.5 (49/62)
  • Population 2014 331,400 (27/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 103,800 (27/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 145,400 (28/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 21,845 (40/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.16 (45/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.29 (45/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 63.89 (55/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 55.94 (38/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 7.95 (39/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 36.11 (9/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 28.06 (17/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 8.04 (13/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 -225 (9/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 0.33 (43/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.57 (28/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 0.69 (18/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.14 (42/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 0.48 (31/63)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 62.31 (10/63)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 37.69 (11/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 80.47 (10/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 9.11 (55/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 10.43 (42/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 4.68 (18/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 8.15 (42/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 6.23 (18/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 20.43 (59/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 60.52 (16/63)