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Friday 18 October 2013

District Council: Knowing East Devon’s Communities

As part of its recent event
East Devon District Council - Working Together event 2013
Futures Forum: District Council: Working Together event 2013
the Deputy CEO gave a presentation entitled: “Knowing East Devon’s Communities”
 
These are some observations gleaned from that overview:

Living in this Outstanding Place

> East Devon has a higher proportion than the national average of people who are self employed and those retired.

> The most common occupation is ‘skilled trades’ at 15.3% (nationally 11.5%).

> The proportion of caring, leisure and other service occupations has increased from 8.9% to 10.7%.

> The top three industries employing the highest proportion of the population in East Devon is,
– Wholesale and retail at 16.3% (9,766),
– Health and social work at 13.7% (8,228)
– Education at 9.4% (5,613).

> The average weekly pay for those living in East Devon is £471.60 below the national average of £499.30.

> Data for 2008 shows the financial contribution of visitors to the economy of East Devon
– £131,888,000 spend by staying visitors;
– £110,191,000 spend by day visitors;
– £2,235,000 other tourism related spend;
– 7,186 jobs related to tourism spending;
• Although visitor numbers to East Devon has declined from 2001 to 2008

> In its nationally recognised research with the Municipal Journal, Research Consultancy Local Futures scored East Devon top of all 325 districts in its Quality of life score
 
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