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Cities Outlook 2017
By
Centre for Cities
| 30 January 2017
Cities Outlook 2017
By
Centre for Cities
| 30 January 2017
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Cities Outlook 2017 Introduction
Figure The national picture
Figure Figure 1: Key findings from Centre for Cities’ 2016 research
Figure The local picture
Figure This year’s focus
Figure Box 1: Defining cities
Where do UK cities export to?
Figure Cities and their exports
Figure Figure 2: Total value of exports by city
Figure Figure 3: Exports per job
Figure Box 2: Top services-exporting cities
Figure Figure 4: Services exports per job
Figure Figure 5: Services as a share of all exports
Figure Figure 6: The largest single sector contributor to total exports
Figure Figure 7: The location of exports from selected industries
Figure Figure 8: Selected destinations of exports from British cities
Figure Figure 9: Share of exports to the EU
Figure Figure 10: Dependence on foreign markets
Figure How exports relate to wider economic performance
Figure Figure 11: The relationship between exports and productivity
Figure Figure 12: The relationship between services exports, goods exports and productivity
Figure Figure 13: Grouping of cities according to exports per job and productivity
Figure Summary and policy implications
Figure Box 3: Methodology
City Monitor: the latest data
Figure Population
Figure Table 1: Population growth
Figure Business Dynamics
Figure Table 2: Business starts and closures per 10,000 population
Figure Figure 3 Business stock per 10,000 population
Figure Productivity and Innovation
Figure Table 4: GVA per worker
Figure Figure 15: GVA per worker
Figure Box 4: Measuring innovation
Figure Table 5: Patent applications published
Figure Employment
Figure Table 6: Employment rate
Figure Table 7: Claimant count
Figure Table 8: Private sector jobs growth
Figure Table 9: Ratio of private sector to publicly-funded jobs
Figure Skills
Figure Table 10: Residents with high level qualifications
Figure Table 11: Residents with no formal qualifications
Figure Figure 16: Residents with no formal qualifications
Figure Wages
Figure Table 12: Average workplace wages
Figure Inequality
Figure Table 13: Gini coefficient
Figure Housing
Figure Table 14: Housing stock growth
Figure Table 15: House price growth
Figure Table 16: Housing affordability ratio
Figure Environment
Figure Table 17: Total CO2 emissions per capita
Figure Digital connectivity
Figure Table 18: Properties achieving ultrafast broadband speeds (above 100 Mbps)
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14: Cities as a share of the national average
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