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Employment / Unemployment figures
The following two tables set out the Portsmouth city region’s employment and unemployment rate.
Employment rate (working age): The number of people in employment aged 16 to 59/64 expressed as a percentage of all working age people.
|
|
Employed |
Employment Rate |
|
Portsmouth |
98,000 |
77.9 |
|
Fareham |
55,100 |
81.5 |
|
Gosport |
42,400 |
86.1 |
|
Havant |
56,500 |
78.0 |
Unemployment refers to people without a job who were available to start work in the two weeks following their interview and who had either looked for work in the four weeks prior to interview or were waiting to start a job they had already obtained.
Unemployment rate (‘economically active’ working age): The number of unemployed people aged 16 to 59/64 expressed as a percentage of the economically active population aged 16 to 59/64.
|
|
Unemployed |
Unemployment Rate |
|
Portsmouth |
7,800 |
7.4 |
|
Fareham |
2,700 |
4.7 |
|
Gosport |
2,500 |
5.6 |
|
Havant |
4,000 |
6.5 |
Source: Nomis 2009
