Each of the fourteen district/unitary authority summaries consists of a brief introduction to some of the most important economic, social and environmental factors in the area, with links to the more detailed analysis available elsewhere on our website. If you have any suggestions for additional aspects you would like to see included in the summary, please let us know at EconInfo@lancashire.gov.uk.
Our report on the mid-2007 resident population of Lancashire looks at the components of change - natural change and net migration. The 0.1% annual increase in the population of the Lancashire NUTS-2 area conceals more variation at district levels. The latest population statistics are available as data downloads and the interactive population pyramids provide an interactive spreadsheet which helps users display and analyse population data.
Maps and tables for all areas and all domains of the Indices of Deprivation are now available for 2007 and 2004. Lower-layer super output areas (LSOAs) are ranked. Lancashire NUTS-2 – which comprises Lancashire County, Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority and Blackpool unitary authority – has 301 wards and 940 LSOAs; Lancashire County has 257 wards and 755 LSOAs.
A review of the area's residential property market examines a number of sources of data, including Land Registry house price information and quarterly house price figures down to local authority level from the Communities and Local Government website. There are also brief details of orders made for mortgage and landlord possession proceedings, government figures on vacant dwellings, and 2001 census data for household spaces and vacancy levels.
… is almost mirrored by the rise in computing jobs.
To get the full story, click on the top graph for our textiles sector profile and on the bottom graph for our computing sector profile.
Employment in the county has just passed the point where the increasing number of jobs in computer and related activities has overtaken the declining number of jobs in textiles and textile products. We have added to the sector profiles with our updated analyses of these two sectors, along with a report on the manufacture of leather and leather products.
Our regular update of unemployment statistics continues with the monthly claimant count for local authorities and the claimant count summary. In July 2008 there was a Lancashire average of 53 persons per ward on the claimant count – wards are ranked to show all those with more than the average. Quarterly claimant count figures also show age and duration, and those joining and leaving the claimant count. Official unemployment statistics are available for the UK and North West for the quarter to June 2008.
We have produced a report on road transport energy consumption which examines the 2006 figures provided by the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Road transport energy consumption in the Lancashire sub-region in 2006 represented about 27% of energy consumed in the area from all sources. The first experimental local authority road transport consumption statistics were derived for 2002 but it has been only since the 2005 results were published that these estimates have assumed National Statistics status. The Department for Transport's National Road Traffic Survey provides estimated traffic flows for the county council area and the two unitary authorities of Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool.
Research papers on educationand employment, self-employment and economic activity, based on the latest figures from the Annual Population Survey, and the most recent monthly update on the population in custody in prisons.