Bristol (Local Profiles 2012)

Economy & Skills

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Gross Annual Pay

• Median gross full-time annual pay among Bristol residents is £25,269, a fall of 1.2% from 2010. This is below the England median (£26,615), but above the South West (£24,922).
• The equivalent pay figure for those working in Bristol is £27,126, illustrating a tendency for those commuting into the city to be the highest earners.
• Median gross full-time annual pay for Bristol resident men is approximately 29% higher than women.  In the South West men’s pay is 29% higher and in England 25% higher.
  

ONS Annual Survey of Hours & Earnings (ASHE) 2011

Local Enterprise Zones (LEPs)

• Local Enterprise Partnerships are locally-owned partnerships between local authorities and businesses and play a central role in determining local economic priorities and undertaking activities to drive economic growth and the creation of local jobs.
• Bristol is in the West of England LEP, along with Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. The table below summaries some key facts across local authorities within this LEP:

	Median Pay	Enterprise 3-year Survival Rate (from 2007)	School Qualifications*	Median House Price	Affordability**	Crime Rate (per 1,000 pop)
B&NES	£25,948	65.30%	64.00%	£227,500	9.6	29
Bristol	£25,269	61.60%	49.70%	£167,250	7.1	64.1
N Somerset	£28,708	64.60%	57.40%	£175,000	7.9	31.8
S Glos	£26,703	66.80%	55.40%	£175,000	7.8	30.6
South West	£24,922	65.90%	57.50%	£181,500	8.2	33.8
England	£26,615	62.90%	58.30%	£175,000	6.7	41.3

* % scoring 5+ GCSEs at grade A*-C, including Maths and English
** ratio of lowest quartile earnings to lowest quartile house prices

Productivity (GVA)

• In 2009, Bristol’s Gross Value Added (GVA) per head was £25,216, the 2nd highest (after Swindon) of the 12 South West NUTS3 areas. South West GVA per head was £18,184, England £20,498.
• Between 2008 and 2009 there was a decrease in Bristol’s GVA per head, of -2.5% (South West -2.3%, England -2.2%).
• Over the last 10 years Bristol’s GVA per head has increased by 31.4% (South West 43.2%, England 44.3%).
  

ONS Business Demography 2009

Enterprise Survival Rate

• At the end of 2010, there were 39,785 VAT/PAYE registered businesses in the West of England LEP area, of which 15,370 were in Bristol.

• There was a decrease in the number of VAT/PAYE registered businesses in Bristol, by -1.8% during 2010 (South West -2.1%, England -1.9%).

• The 3-year survival rate of enterprises that started in 2007 in Bristol is 61.6% (South West 65.9%, England 62.9%). This survival rate has decreased from 69.7% in 2006 and is the third lowest of any South West county or unitary authority.
• Bristol had 1,725 new businesses in 2010, an increase of 7.8% from 2009 (South West -0.6%, England -0.7%).

ONS Business Demography 2010
Data Limitations: Business Demography statistics exclude Agriculture

Employment

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Unemployment and Claimant Rate

• Bristol’s employment rate increased in the year to Dec 2010. It is above the rates for both the South West and England.

% of working age population	Jan 09 – Dec 09	Jan 10 – Dec 10	% point change
Bristol	71.9	74.3	+2.4
South West	74.2	73.6	-0.6
England	70.9	70.4	-0.5

• The latest unemployment rate for Bristol is 7.0% of the economically active 16+ population (SW: 6.0%, England: 7.6%).
• Bristol’s claimant count rate has increased since the same period a year ago and is now higher than both the South West figure and the England rate.
  

ONS Claimant Count, Dec 2011

Employment by Sector

• The largest proportion of jobs in Bristol is in information & communication, finance & Insurance, professional, scientific & technical and business, administration & support (31.8%), closely followed by public administration, defence, education and health (29.5%).

Business Register and Employment Survey 2010 (available via NOMIS)

Education and Skills

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School Qualifications

• In 2010/11, 49.7% of Bristol pupils achieved 5+ GCSEs or equivalent at Grade A*-C including English & Maths by the end of Key Stage 4. This is the lowest pass rate of the 16 authorities in the South West. South West rate: 57.5%, England (all schools): 58.3%).
• Bristol’s latest Key Stage 2 results also compare poorly against other authorities in England.

DfE GCSE & KS2 2010/11 (prov)
NB: provisional figures are based on data provided by Awarding Bodies, subject to checking by schools, and so should be treated with caution. Figures may be different in future revised releases

School Absenteeism

• The percentage of half days missed due to unauthorised absence for Bristol primary schools pupils is 1.14%, higher than the rate for England and the South West.
• In secondary schools the rate is 1.88%, also higher than the rate for England and the South West. The rates for both primary and secondary schools is the highest in the South West.

% of half days missed, unauthorised absence	Maintained primary schools	Maintained secondary schools
Bristol	1.14	1.88
South West	0.49	1.10
England	0.67	1.38

DfE Pupil Absence in Schools in England 2009/10

Workforce Qualifications

• The percentage of Bristol’s workforce with no qualifications (10.2%) is higher than the South West figure (8.4%), but lower than the England figure (11.1%).
• Bristol has the highest proportion of people qualified to NVQ level 4 (Degree & Equivalent) & above (37.1%) of all county and unitary authorities in the South West (England 33.1%, SW 31.3%).