back search

hantsweb

home  » Facts and Figures Home

Hampshire Facts and Figures

Hampshire Key Facts (including Portsmouth and Southampton )




Rural & Urban Classification 2004






Sources :

Population figures - Hampshire County Council small area population forecasts 2008 based
Rural urban figures-Rural & Urban Classification 2004

These data are derived from 2001 Census data
Areas were treated as 'urban' or 'rural' simply on the basis of their geographical relationship to settlements of 10,000 or more population. More specifically, where the majority of the population of an area lives within settlements with a population of more than 10,000 people, the area is treated as urban. All other areas were treated as rural.





Population



The Hampshire County Council Demography section have produced Demographic Factsheets for Hampshire County Council Area, Hampshire including Portsmouth and Southampton, Hampshire's districts (including the Unitary authorities of Southampton and Portsmouth). You can view or download the factsheets for Hampshire including Portsmouth and Southampton area by clicking on the following links:



Population age profile



Source: Office for National Statistics



arrowPage Index




Housing Completions




The following table shows the number of net dwellings completed in the Hampshire area (including Southampton and Portsmouth) by large and small sites each year since 2001. The information is obtained through detailed annual surveys carried out by the Land Supply team and local authority colleagues.


Net Housing Completions by Large, Small and Total Sites 2001-2012



Note : Large sites are sites of 10 or more dwellings

Source: Land Supply team, Research & Intelligence group, Hampshire County Council

For more information on Housing, Industrial, Leisure and Retail sites please visit the Land Supply section pages





Employment (employees)

Source: Business Register and Employment Survey 2011 and 2010

Notes:

  1. All broad industry definitions based on Standard Industry Classification (SIC) 2007. The revised SIC 2007 is not directly comparable to the earlier SIC 2003 or 1992 used in the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI).

  2. All estimates rounded to nearest 100 employees.

  3. Excludes SIC 2007 01:000 farm labourers.

  4. An employee is anyone aged 16 years or over that an organisation directly pays from its payroll(s), in return for carrying out a full-time or part-time job or being on a training scheme. It excludes voluntary workers, self-employed, working owners who are not paid via PAYE.

The Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) replaces the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI), but remains based on a sample survey so all figures are estimates subject to reliability measures which need to be taken into account when interpreting the data. The lower the level of geography and industry the less reliable the data.

The location quotient (LQ) compares the local economy to a reference economy, in the process attempting to identify specializations in the local economy. The location quotient is based upon a calculated ratio between the local economy and the economy of some reference unit, in this case the local authority area referenced to Great Britain. A figure equal to or close to ‘1.00’ implies parity between the local and national employee share for that sector, while figures above suggest local sector concentrations.


arrowPage Index




House prices




Please refer to the Hampshire County Council area and two Unitary Authority tables for median quarterly house prices and the ratio of median and lower quartile house price to median and lower quartile earnings.

The BBC host a searchable page with the most available house price information supplied by the Land Registry, the information is broken down by district and house type and can be found at BBC house prices page


arrowPage Index




Earnings






Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2011 (Resident based query), National Statistics. Earnings rounded to the nearest ten/

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2011 (Workplace based query), National Statistics. Earnings rounded to the nearest ten.

NOTES: Earnings are median gross weekly estimates. The median is the value below which 50% of all employees fall. It is preferred over the mean for earnings data, which is influenced more by extreme values e.g. small numbers of very high earners.

Resident based earnings are the average earnings of employees who live in the local district and will include local resident workers and out-commuters. Workplace based earnings include local resident workers and in-commuters.

C.I % +/- is the confidence interval around the estimate at the 95% level (0.05). As a rule of thumb, the higher the percentage value the less reliable the data. Any value above 10% should be viewed with caution. C.I is not calculated for Hampshire (including Portsmouth and Southampton), but the value will be lower than the Hampshire County Council C.I.


arrowPage Index







Unemployment






Source: DWP Claimant Count, National Statistics

From August 2010 all claimant rates are now based on the revised working age population. This moves the female working age from 16-59yrs to 16-64yrs to be in line with the male working age. This reflects the change in pensionable age for female workers, but the actual changes to pensionable age will be gradually introduced over the coming years. However,  this 'big bang' methodology has been applied by the Office for National Statistics in response to the consultation exercise.



arrowPage Index




 

In this section…