UK unemployment tracker
Centre for Cities tracks the latest unemployment claim statistics across the UK's cities and largest towns.
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High streets recovery tracker
Centre for Cities tracks the recovery of high streets in Britain's cities and large towns from the Coronavirus pandemic.
Cities Outlook 2022
Cities Outlook 2022 looks in-depth at the state of UK high streets to get a sense of the short-term impact of the pandemic on Britain's town and city centres and the long-term consequences and implications this has for the Government’s levelling up agenda.
What role does foreign investment have in levelling up?
Foreign investment is currently skewed towards the Greater South East, but policy will need to tackle the fundamental barriers to investment elsewhere rather than using subsidies and tax breaks if this is to change.
Where were people most reliant on the furlough scheme when it ended this autumn?
There were still 1.1 million people on furlough in September, and almost one third of them were in London, Birmingham and Manchester.
Levelling up requires cities to build new strengths, not build on their existing strengths
Economically struggling places need to look more critically at what they don’t have – not what they do have.
What levelling up really means: changing the geography of knowledge
This briefing uses the theory of economic complexity to show how the economies of Britain’s cities and large towns have developed over time and sets out the implications for how the Government should approach its levelling up agenda.
July 2021: What do the latest statistics tell us about the labour market after ‘Freedom Day’?
Guilherme Rodrigues analyses the latest claimant count and job postings data and warns that some cities look particularly vulnerable as we approach the end of the furlough scheme.
Did ‘Freedom Day’ boost the high street recovery?
Analyst Valentine Quinio explores the latest high street spend and footfall data to establish what impact England’s ‘Freedom Day’ had on consumer behaviour, and what this means for high street recovery.
Net zero: what is the carbon footprint of my city?
Explore the carbon footprint of your city or town to see how sectors contribute to total carbon emissions and how it compares to other places.