Oxfordshire Insight

Thank you to everyone who came to our online Oxfordshire analyst networking meeting on 12th October 2021, hosted by Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council. 

The event was attended by analysts and others from a wide range of local government and health services. 

There was a lot of very positive feedback, thank you to our excellent speakers:

Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar on population forecasts on 21st September 2021.

Bella Image (Senior Research Officer with responsibility for modelling and statistics, Oxfordshire County Council) talked through:

Unemployment claimant count data (released 14 September 2021 by the Department of Work and Pensions) shows that the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits in Oxfordshire decreased between July and August 2021, from 13,915 to 13,650 (-1.9%).

The charts below show the recorded ethnicities and first language (English/Other) of Primary and Secondary (national curriculum years 1-11) pupils who attend Oxfordshire schools, split by the District in which they live. The underlying data comes from the January 2021 School Census*.

Some key themes:

Unemployment claimant count data (released 17 August 2021 by the Department of Work and Pensions) shows that the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits in Oxfordshire decreased between June and July 2021, from 14,390 to 14,170 (-1.5%).

Unemployment claimant count data (released 15 July 2021 by the Department of Work and Pensions) shows that the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits in Oxfordshire decreased between May and June 2021, from 15,655 to 14,645 (-6%).

A new population bitesize is now available with data on residents born overseas and living in Oxfordshire in 1961 and 2011.