New jobs density estimates for 2008 were released at 09.30 on Wednesday 12 May 2010.

The jobs density estimates are available in local authority profiles or from wizard/advanced queries in the jobs density dataset under the Employee Job Estimates/Jobs Density theme.

Background

Jobs density is defined as the number of jobs in an area divided by the resident working-age population of that area.

An article in the August 2003 issue of Labour Market Trends gives information about the methodology and backgroundto the development of this indicator.

Download August 2003 LMT article (pdf, 241Kb)