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Glasgow City Region

Unemployment rates, population aged 16 and over, Glasgow City Region local authorities, 2004-2023
Chart showing unemployment rates in Glasgow City Region from 2004 to 2023.Unemployment rates rose steeply across all the local authorities in the Glasgow City Region from 2008. Since 2012/13, however, the unemployment rates have declined in all local authorities. In 2023, the rate in Glasgow was 4.3%, slightly higher than the Scottish average of 3.6%. 

The highest rate in this time period was 14.4% in 2012 in Inverclyde, and Inverclyde also had the highest unemployment rate (5.7%) in Glasgow City Region in 2023. 

The lowest rate in 2023 was in Renfrewshire, which had an unemployment rate of 1%. 

Notes

These unemployment estimates are model-based and subject to sampling variability. The unemployment rate shown is the unemployment count as a percentage of the economically-active population aged 16+.

The unemployment count included all people aged 16+ without a job who were available to start work in the two weeks following their interview and who had either looked for work in the four weeks prior to interview or were waiting to start a job they had already obtained.

This page was updated in February 2025. 

Further reading under ‘Unemployment’