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Warrington first for employment in the UK

Warrington is the first city out of a list of 64 for employment in the UK.

The Centre for Cities has published its annual health check of UK cities, Cities Outlook 2015 which establishes Warrington as the top city for employment.

The document is an economic index of the 64 largest cities and towns in the UK.

The report states that the strongest performance among cities in North West is seen among its smaller cities with Warrington in particular standing out, with a business stock change of 29%, over twice the average for UK cities, and a 6% growth in jobs despite the recession.

Warrington is classified as a ‘city’ in the report by population.

Warrington has a steady presence in the top twenty for all measured criteria.

It was ranked 1st out of 64 cities for the highest percentage of employment per population with 79.8% of its population in employment.

It also came 4th in terms of private to public sector ratio.

Suggesting that the jobs market within Warrington is not solely reliant on public sector employment but has a healthy range of private sector employers

Leader of Warrington Borough Council, Terry O’Neill, said, “Today’s report shows that Warrington continues to lead the North West region and indeed the rest of the UK, most notably this time in terms of employment.

“Ensuring the people of Warrington are able to get jobs is a key objective of this local authority.

“We are pleased that once again Warrington continues to set the pace for the North West region and in certain areas outperforms most of the UK”.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sophia Taha .