High streets recovery tracker
Centre for Cities tracks the recovery of high streets in Britain's cities and large towns from the Coronavirus pandemic.
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UK unemployment tracker
As the COVID-19 pandemic sends shockwaves through the labour market, Centre for Cities tracks the latest unemployment claim statistics across the UK's cities and largest towns.
Will increasing the National Living Wage help level up the country?
While an increase in the National Living Wage would help people in economically weaker places, it will not address the structural problems they face which cause low wages in the first place
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.
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.
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.
An uneven recovery? How Covid-debt and Covid-saving will shape post-pandemic cities
This report, published in partnership with Clarion Housing Group, analyses how the pandemic has affected people’s spending, saving and debt, and evaluates what this means for the recovery of the UK’s cities and largest towns.
June 2021: What do the latest statistics tell us about the labour market of the UK’s largest cities and towns?
Data from this month's update shows signs of recovery in most cities and large towns, but for a few, significant challenges remain.
No, big cities haven’t grown at the expense of towns
The idea that recent growth of cities has come at the expense of towns has become a mantra. The problem is, it isn’t true.
How many EU nationals are there really in our largest cities and towns?
In most cities and large towns, applications for the EU Settlement Scheme far outnumber population estimates.