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Glasgow City Region

Employment rates in the Glasgow City Region, 2004 - 2022
Employ GCR trendEmployment rates in the Glasgow City Region have fluctuated over the last two decades but have risen in most local authorities over the last ten years. The employment rate in Glasgow has risen from a low point in 2012 (58%) to 72% in 2022.

Employment rates for Glasgow City Region local authorities and Scotland, 2022
Employ GCR compIn 2022, 72% of working-age Glaswegians were employed. Glasgow's employment rate is 2% lower than the Scottish average and the third lowest among the local authorities in the Glasgow City Region.

Percentage in full-time employment aged 16-64, in Glasgow City Region local authorities and Scotland, 2022

FT employed GCRThe percentage of employed working-age people in Glasgow who are in full-time employment is 78%, which is the highest in the Glasgow City Region.

Job density: the number of jobs per working-age resident and is used as indicator of labour demand. A job density greater than one indicates that there is more than one job per person for the working-age population. Glasgow has had a much higher job density than all the other local authorities in the Glasgow City Region area throughout the last two decades. In 2021, job density in Glasgow was 1.03, but ranged between 0.81 and 0.41 in the other local authorities in the city region.

Employment rate by gender for Glasgow City Region local authorities and Scotland, 2022
Employ GCR gender compIn 2022, male employment rates were higher than female employment rates in Scotland as a whole and in most, but not all, local authorities in the Glasgow City Region. In Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and East Renfrewshire female employment rates are higher than male employment rates.

Migrant workers as a percentage of total in employment aged 16-64 in Glasgow City Region local authorities and Scotland, 2022

Migrant employment GCRThere is a far greater proportion of migrant workers (people born outside the UK) in Glasgow's workforce (22%) than in any of the other local authorities in the Glasgow City Region and in Scotland as a whole. The rest of the local authorities in the Glasgow City Region have a smaller percentage of migrant workers than the Scottish average, which was 14% in 2022.

Notes

The Annual Population Survey (APS) combines results from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the English, Welsh and Scottish Labour Force Survey boosts. It is the primary source for information on local labour markets, providing headline estimates on employment, unemployment and economic activity, and is the largest annual household survey in Scotland.

The LFS definition of employment is anyone (aged 16 or over) who does at least one hour’s paid work in the week prior to their LFS interview, or has a job that they are temporarily away from (e.g. on holiday). Also included are people who do unpaid work in a family business and people on government supported employment training schemes, in line with ILO definitions.

The headline employment rate is the proportion of the working-age population who are in employment. The working-age population comprises men aged 16-64 and women aged 16-59 and therefore  takes account of the school-leaving age but does not align completely with the state pension age, which has risen in recent years.

The full-time/part-time split is based on respondent self-classification. Respondents are asked whether they work full-time or part-time in their main job.

The measure of migrant workers used is defined as: people in employment who were not born in the UK, expressed as a percentage of all people in employment in an area.

This page was updated in July 2023.

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