Young Adult Unemployment
Key points
- At 23%, Inner London has the highest rate of young adult unemployment in England.
- In 2009, the young adult unemployment rate was higher everywhere than it had been ten years previously.
- During the last decade, Outer London has seen a bigger increase in young adult unemployment than any other English region
Unemployment among 16-24 year olds, over time
What does this graph show?
The figures illustrate the unemployment rate among young adults - aged 16 to 24 - as a proportion of the economically active (those in paid work or officially unemployed).
At 23%, Inner London has the highest rate of young adult unemployment of any region in England over the period 2007-09. Outer London has the fourth highest rate, at 19%, after the North East, West Midlands and Inner London, although the rise in Outer London is bigger than any other region.
The overall figure for London is 21%.
This indicator looks much different to the one we included in the original report because it covers a different 10 year period, 1997 to 2007. Young adult unemployment actually came down significantly everywhere between 1997 and 1999, but much less so thereafter.
Add to this the effects of the recession, and the recent rises in young adult unemployment, and what was previously a story of decreasing rates everywhere now becomes one of rising rates. This is of particular concern in Inner London, where the young adult unemployment rate was high in any case.
Data used
Labour Force Survey, ONS
Indicator last updated: 21 April 2010
Other indicators in Working-age adults
- Working Age Poverty
- Poverty in Inner and Outer London
- In-work poverty across England
- Working-age out-of-work benefits by region
- Working age out-of-work benefits by ward
- Working age out-of-work benefits within London
- Income inequality in London compared with other English regions
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Pay inequalities within London
- Working-age adults lacking work over time
- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Adult ill health
- Adult ill-health by borough
- Low-paid residents by borough
- Low-paid jobs by borough
- Low income and ethnicity in London
- Lacking work by ethnicity
- Not working by country of birth
- Not working by ethnicity and country of birth
- Low pay by ethnicity
- Premature death by borough
- Low-paid residents by region
- Low-paid jobs by sub-region
- Families receiving in-work benefits
- Working age out-of-work benefits by borough
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Glossary
Unemployed:
Someone wanting and actively seeking work who is available to start a full-time job straightaway
Outer London:
Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Bromley, Bexley, Brent, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton, Waltham Forest
Inner London:
Camden, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Westminster