Economic data and resources

The Southampton Economic Assessment was last updated in March 2024. A slide set was produced updating the key messages for the city. An interactive dashboard was also developed alongside the slide set and this webpage to provide the latest economic data for Southampton. Archived assessments from 2017 to 2023 can be downloaded from the section below.

This section contains archived reports from previous Southampton Economic Assessments. The latest data on the economy in the city, is presented in the rest of this webpage and the Economic Dashboard.

Below is a time series Power BI dashboard illustrating the change in the percentage of the working age population claiming Universal credit and Job Seekers Allowance claimants for the last 25 months.

This dashboard provides profiles for neighbourhoods, electoral wards and localities in Southampton. These profiles have been produced to meet the need for information and intelligence at the local level in the city and form part of the Single Needs Assessment for Southampton. These profiles pull together information across a range of topics including demography, economy, community safety, health, education and social care to better understand the local population need at sub-city geographies.

This dashboard provides profiles for national and local deprivation quintiles in Southampton. These profiles pull together information across a range of topics including demography, economy, community safety, health, education and social care. In order to better understand the level of inequality in Southampton and whether the inequality gap is improving over time.

PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd.) publish a range of national reports which help to inform parts of the Southampton Economic Assessment. Links to recent PwC reports are provided below.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) publish economic and fiscal outlooks based on the government's national budget and policies. A link to the latest OBR economic and fiscal outlook is provided below.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish a range of statistics on the UK economy each year including data on productivity, businesses, jobs and earnings. Data is published annually and is available at local authority level which enables local benchmarking and trend analysis to be conducted. Links to some of the most valuable datasets and analysis are provided below.

A look at the data behind the headlines, how it was collected and what it can and can not be used for.

Compare a local authority and the UK average (median) local authority by different indicators, such as weekly pay and healthy life expectancy. You can also add and compare up to three other local authorities.

The Department for Education have released an interactive dashboard to support local skills planning, the dashboard covers topics such as employment, qualifications, and education outcomes across England. Data is available to view and download for various geographies, including: local authority (LA), local skills improvement plan (LSIP) area, local enterprise partnership (LEP), Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA), regional and national.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) published the latest Indices of Deprivation (IoD) in 2019. The Indices of Deprivation (2019) provides a relative ranking of areas across the country according to their level of deprivation and is the primary source of information on deprivation in England. The IMD measures deprivation at neighbourhood level known as 2011 Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs), which contain approximately 1,500 people, and ranks each of the 32,844 LSOAs in England by their level of deprivation and splits them into 10 equal groups known as deciles. The original IMD data produced by the DLUHC can be downloaded below along with a summary slide set. In addition, a series of maps are also available below illustrating the deprivation decile assignment for each of Southampton’s 148 LSOAs for each domain of deprivation, along with an interactive mapping tool produced by DLUHC, which allows the data for the whole of England to be explored and compared with 2015. The Southampton analysis summary slide set has been updated for 2023 ward boundaries.

Maps visualising the changes between IMD 2015 and IMD 2019 by each of Southampton's 148 2011 LSOAs with 2023 ward boundaries are available for download below. Please note that there were no changes in the EST - adult skills sub-domain between 2015 and 2019 in Southampton.

This section contains archived content from the IMD 2015 and IMD 2010. For the latest data on deprivation in Southampton, please refer to the IMD 2019 resources above. The data underpinning the 2010 and 2015 indices are outdated and have been superseded by IMD 2019, which should be used in most instances. However, reports and data relating to IMD 2015 and IMD 2010 are provided below for comparative purposes.

More benchmarking and trend over time data on housing and homelessness in Southampton can be accessed using the links below.

Homelessness Prevention needs assessments are developed to better understand homelessness in Southampton and determine the extent to which the population in the district is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Needs assessments can then be used to inform prevention strategies. Needs assessments and data associated with homelessness in Southampton can be downloaded below, along with the local and national strategies. Links for the 2023 Southampton Homelessness Prevention Review and the Southampton Homelessness Prevention Strategy 2024-2029 will be added when they become available.

This work highlighted need and inequalities among Southampton neighbourhoods across a number of key theme areas, including demography, children's social care, youth crime and violence, healthy start, child health and need, adult health and need, education, poverty and deprivation.