Official Statistics

Rural earnings statistics

Workplace and residence based earnings for rural and urban areas.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 9 February 2012
• Last updated: 26 August 2021 — See all updates

• Applies to: England

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Workplace based earnings measure the average annual earnings of people who work in a particular area but may live elsewhere. Residence based earnings are measured by where employees live.

These documents are part of the larger compendium publication the Statistical Digest of Rural England, a collection of rural statistics on a wide range of social and economic government policy areas. The statistics allow comparisons between the different rural and urban area classifications.

Metadata

Indicators:

• median workplace based earnings
• median residence based earnings

Data source: Office for National Statistics Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

Coverage: England

Rural classification used: Local Authority Rural-Urban Classification

Next release date: tbc

Additional information:

• NOMIS - official labour market statistics

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Published 9 February 2012
Last updated 26 August 2021 + show all updates

1. 26 August 2021

   Created a new html version of the earnings section and updated the section with the latest available data (2020).

2. 27 February 2020

   Published today, latest rural statistics on earnings.

3. 28 February 2019

   Published today, latest rural statistics on earnings.

4. 22 December 2017

   Published today, latest analysis on Rural Earnings

5. 21 July 2016

   We’ve changed how we’ve organised rural statistics and updated the content following Lord Cameron’s review of rural proofing.

6. 13 March 2014

   The latest statistics for rural earnings published today.

7. 8 May 2013

   2012 workplace based and resident based earnings by rural urban classification.

8. 9 February 2012

   First published.