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Working-age adults have experienced rising poverty in London over the past decade.

Working-age adults without children are particularly vulnerable to poverty.

Many of the indicators on this site are relevant to this age group - such as employment rates, low pay and out-of-work benefits.

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London overall has a 'younger' population than the national average.

• There is a smaller proportion of older people than in the rest of England, especially in Inner London.

• There are proportionally more 25-34 year olds in London than in the rest of the country.

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The level of childcare provision in London is lower than the England average.

• There are on average more children per childcare place in Inner London than Outer
  London.

• There is significant variation in childcare availability per borough.

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Around half of working people living in London use public transport as their principal method of travelling to work.

• 60% of low-paid workers in London who use public transport use the bus to commute
  to work.

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In almost half the boroughs 50% or more of 19 year-olds do not have a Level 3 qualification.

• Compared to 2007-08, the proportion of 19 year-olds lacking Level 3 qualifications has fallen everywhere.

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The proportion of 19 year olds lacking qualifications at Level 2 and Level 3 has come down significantly over the past decade.

• 19 year old Londoners are less likely to lack qualifications than 19 year olds in the rest of England.

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There is a strong correlation between occurrence of poor mental well-being and area deprivation.

• Adults in the most deprived areas are almost three times as likely to have low mental well-being as those in the least deprived areas.

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Under 25 year olds are more than three times more likely than other age groups to be paid below the London Living Wage.

Almost half of under 25s earned less than the London Living Wage between 2008 and 2010.

From 25 to 55+, the risk of low pay does not decline with age.

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London's low-paid economy does not seem to have changed very much in the past five years.

Around 25% of low-paid jobs are in the retail sector.

Another 20% of low-paid jobs are in hotels and restaurants.

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In 2010, some 470,000 jobs in London were paid below the London Living Wage.

The number of jobs paid below the London Living Wage increased by 60,000 since 2005 but is still the same proportion of the total jobs in London.

In London, a lower proportion of jobs, for both women and men, are low paid than in England on average.

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In London, as elsewhere in England, disabled people are over twice as likely to lack work as people who are not disabled.

The gap in work rates between disabled and non-disabled people in Inner London is higher than in Outer London and the rest of England.

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There are a big differences in work rates between Londoners born in different countries.

Men and women born in Somalia are more likely to lack paid work than men and women born elsewhere.

Men born in the UK are more likely to lack work than men living in London but born in France, the US and Australia (among others).

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Women are less likely to be working than men.

The variations between ethnic groups are much greater for women than men.

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Rates of unemployment in London's boroughs are similar to those found in other large cities in England.

Within London, the highest levels of unemployment are found in Tower Hamlets where around 9% of working-age adults are unemployed.

Most boroughs saw an increase in unemployment from the middle of the last decade until the end.

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There were almost 900,000 people in London either unemployed or underemployed in 2010, accounting for almost 17% of the total working-age population in London.

The number of people in part-time work who wanted, but could not find, a full-time job has more than doubled since 2004.

The number of unemployed Londoners passed 400,000 in the middle of 2011. This is the highest level since 1996.

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