Mid-Wales

• The latest population of Mid Wales is 208,300.
• According to the 2005 Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation, none of the 127 Lower Super Output Areas in Mid Wales are in the top 10% most deprived in Wales.
• 79 per cent of year 11 school leavers in 2006 continued in full-time education. 62 per cent of year 11 leavers remaining in full-time education stayed on school while 38 per cent opted to continue to year 12 in a further education college.
• 72 per cent of all adults of working age have a qualification at level 2 or above, with 28 per cent at level 4 or above. 13 per cent of the working age population have no qualifications.

Economic data

• Gross Value Added in Powys was £1.6 billion in 2004 (not available for Mid-Wales).  Mid-Wales is home to 12,000 VAT registered businesses and has a workforce of around 100,000 people.
• At £12,600, GVA per head of the population in Powys in 2004 was 74 per cent of the UK average.
• There are 1000 VAT registered businesses per 10,000 working age population in Mid-Wales, compared to 475 for Wales and 519 across the UK.

Labour Market

• At 4.0 per cent, the unemployment rate in Mid-Wales for the year to March 2007 was below that for Wales as a whole and the UK (both 5.3 per cent).
• The employment rate in Mid-Wales was 71.8 per cent of the working age population, a little above the Wales average but below the UK average (71.0 and 74.1 per cent respectively).
• The agriculture sector accounted for 12 per cent of jobs in Mid-Wales in 2005, compared to 3 per cent in Wales and 1 per cent across the UK.
• Full-time average earnings in Mid-Wales in April 2007 were £426.5 per week, below the £472.1 for Wales as a whole and just 78 per cent of the UK average.

 

Source: StatsWales

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