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Local statistics update

30 January 2025 | Issue 1

Explore the labour market in regions of the UK

This publication provides regional, local authority and parliamentary constituency breakdowns of changes in UK employment, unemployment and economic inactivity.

Explore differences across the regions of the UK, for example the highest employment rate was in the South West (78.3%) and the lowest was in Wales (70%).

These are official statistics in development.

Discover healthy life expectancy for your area

This release explores healthy life expectancy (HLE), which shows the number of years people are expected to live in “good” general health.

Wokingham had the highest HLE at birth for both males (69.7 years) and females (70.8 years). Use our interactive map to view trends in healthy life expectancy at birth and at 65 years old, across England and Wales.

Local authority private rent and house prices

The Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) produces rent price and inflation statistics for the UK, tracking prices paid for new and existing tenancies in the private rental sector.

Every month, our housing prices tool is updated with the latest data for house prices and private rental prices for local authorities across Britain.

In December, we released a publication exploring housing purchase affordability. This bulletin shows the ratios of house prices to annual disposable household incomes, by decile, for countries of the UK and regions in England.

Public service productivity user survey

We are looking at how our public service productivity publications can be more coherent, and how they can better fit with other productivity publications.

Feedback from local authorities will be instrumental in helping us improve these publications to better meet user needs. Please complete the survey by 19 February.

ONS Local updates

If you have any questions or feedback about ONS Local, please contact the team: ONS.local@ons.gov.uk

Blog: Thinking local at the Subnational Data Conference

In our blog, Becky Tinsley, Deputy Director for ONS Local, reflects on the Subnational Data Conference hosted with Emma Hickman in November 2024, and highlights our plans for local data.

Call for volunteers: help shape local and subnational data services

We’re looking for volunteers to join a research panel that will make sure our services such as Explore local statistics and Build a custom area profile work well for the people who need them.

Our research may involve a survey, taking part in an interview, or a remote or in-person usability testing session.

To sign up, please email your contact details to ONS.local@ons.gov.uk and specify how you would like to be involved in the research.

ONS Local user requested datasets

• ONS Local: Job quality indicators by industry in London and all other regions of the UK, 2023 (5 December)
• ONS Local: Overview of creative jobs and creative industries, South East of England, 2014 to 2023 (8 January)
• ONS Local: Distance travelled to work by MSOA/LTLA of origin and destination and by characteristics of usual residents, South Yorkshire Combined Authority, 2021 (13 January)
• ONS Local: Highest Level of Qualification by Disability Status at ITL2 Geography, 2022 (16 January)

You can find recent user requested data on our website.

Webinars and workshops

• ONS Local presents: 2024/25 ONS housing and housing affordability releases (5 February, 9:15-10:00)
• ONS Local presents: Shaping our published content for population estimates (12 February, 9:15-10:00)

Please check the ONS Local Eventbrite for the latest events.

Events

National population projections webinar (3 February, 13:30-14:30)

Join our population projections team to hear more and ask questions about the latest national population projections.

This is part of a new webinar series called The Population in numbers - what’s changing? where you can hear about the latest population and migration statistics.

Sign-up on Eventbrite.

Health data science seminar series: Health policy development (5 February, 14:00-15:30)

Register now for the next webinar in our series focusing on health policy development, which will include presentations on the impact of health data and the role of regulation in health technologies.

Full details are on Eventbrite.

Bringing data to life: The story of crime in numbers (25 February, 16:00-16:45)

Our ''Bringing data to life series' of online events continues this February with a focus on how we measure crime statistics.

Register through Eventbrite.

Contact

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