Low-paid residents by borough
Key points
- Around 25% of workers living in Newham and Brent are paid less than the London Living Wage.
- This map has a different pattern from other indicators, e.g. on worklessness.
Employees in low-paid work by residence
What does this map show?
The map is an illustration of the proportion of employees in each borough who are paid less than £7.85 per hour - the London Living Wage in 2010.
Around 25% of workers living in Newham and Brent are paid less than the London Living Wage. The proportion is also high in Barking & Dagenham and Waltham Forest where around 20% are paid below the LLW.
This map has a slightly different pattern to, for instance, the indicator on worklessness or benefit recipiency. Notably, the proportion of workers living in Tower Hamlets who earn less than LLW is lower than the London average.
The picture is also different when looking at low paid jobs by borough.
Compared to five years previously, there has been no significant change in the proportion of low-paid residents in each borough.
See also variations by age.
Data used
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), ONS, average for 2008 to 2010
Indicator last updated: 21 February 2012
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Groups:
Boroughs:
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- City of London
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
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