Economic data
This section aims to provide a range of interesting and informative statistics about Walsall for everyone.
This section is a result of working closely with Black Country Observatory who have provided us with the tools to share good quality information between agencies and with you, the public.
Below you'll find maps, graphs and tables showing you lots of information about many different aspects of life in Walsall including statistics about employment, household income, population, business and lots more. This site will also be updated every two months so the information remains current.
Can't find what you are looking for? Check out the regeneration presentation for additional information including health, environment and safer communities.
Walsall
Business
- Employment by industry sector (PDF 54KB)
- Number of firms by size and type (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of firms by size (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of people employed in each sector in Walsall (PDF 54KB)
- Average annual earnings (PDF 54KB)
- Business formation rates metadata (PDF 54KB)
- Business formation rates
- Number of VAT registered business per 1000 population (PDF 54KB)
- One year business survival rates (PDF 54KB)
- Three year buisness survival rates (PDF 54KB)
- Value of exports (PDF 54KB)
- Definition - knowledge sectors (PDF 54KB)
- Public and private sector employment in knowledge sectors (PDF 54KB)
- Available floorspace (PDF 54KB)
Economic activity
- Definition of economic activity (PDF 54KB)
- Working age population - economically active (PDF 54KB)
- Working age population - economically inactive (PDF 54KB)
- Employment rate (PDF 54KB)
- Total employment (PDF 54KB)
- Employment rate - whites and non-whites (PDF 54KB)
Unemployment
- Measure of unemployment definition 1 (PDF 54KB)
- Measure of unemployment definition 2 (PDF 54KB)
- Difference between unemployment measures (PDF 54KB)
- Unemployment - claimant count (PDF 54KB)
- Unemployment by ward - claimant count (PDF 54KB)
- Unemployment rate - from annual population survey (PDF 54KB)
- Benefits explained (PDF 54KB)
- Income support claimants by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Incapacity and severe disability allowance claimants by ward (PDF 54KB)
Deprivation
- Deprivation metadata - useful to read before continuing (PDF 54KB)
- Deprivation - overall deprivation (PDF 54KB)
- Deprivation - income (PDF 54KB)
- Deprivation - employment (PDF 54KB)
- Deprivation - health and disability (PDF 54KB)
- Deprivation - education, skills and training (PDF 54KB)
- Deprivation - barriers to housing and services (PDF 54KB)
- Deprivation - crime (PDF 54KB)
- Deprivation - the living environment (PDF 54KB)
Gross vale added (GVA)
- Gross vale added (GVA) definition (PDF 54KB)
- Gross value added (GVA) per head (PDF 54KB)
- Total gross value added (GVA) (PDF 54KB)
Population information
- Population (PDF 54KB)
- Population ethnicity (PDF 54KB)
- Number of residents by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Total number of people by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Total number of people by community (PDF 54KB)
- Total number of households by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Total number of households by community (PDF 54KB)
- Number of people aged 0-4 by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Number of people aged 0-4 by community (PDF 54KB)
- Population density by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Population density by community (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of the population aged 18-64 by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of the population aged 18-64 by community (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of BME population by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of BME population by community (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of the population with long tem limiting illness by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of the population with long term limiting illness by community (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of lone parent households by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of lone parent household by community (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of population aged over 64 by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of population aged over 64 by community (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of population aged under 18 by ward (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of population aged under 18 by community (PDF 54KB)
- Life expectancy at birth (PDF 54KB)
- Teenage conception rates (PDF 54KB)
Population qualifications
- Working age population by qualification level (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of working age population with no qualifications (PDF 54KB)
- Proportion of working age population at level 4 or above (PDF 54KB)
- Definition NEET - not in education, employment and training -destinations (PDF 54KB)
- Year 11 destinations (PDF 54KB)
- Yaer 11 destinations - NEET (PDF 54KB)
All the above information is also available together in Walsall's Economic Data (PDF 2634KB)
Contact us
Economic Regeneration Team
2nd Floor, Civic Centre
Darwall Street
Walsall
WS1 1TP
Telephone 01922 653620
Email econregen@walsall.gov.uk