Video Summary: Workless Households for Local Areas in the UK, 2011

• Liverpool had the highest percentage of workless households in the UK in 2011, at 31.6 per cent. This is the fourth year that Liverpool has topped this ranking.

• Glasgow City is the only other area consistently to have been in the highest five since records began in 2004. It is currently the fourth highest area in the UK and highest in Scotland.

• The Central Valleys (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff) has the highest percentage of workless households in Wales.

• Four of the five areas with the lowest percentages of workless households are in the South East of England. The lowest of all is Oxfordshire, at 8.0 per cent.

• Finally it shows the highest and lowest percentages for each region in England and also for Wales and Scotland.

Source: Office for National Statistics

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