{"id":161628,"date":"2019-06-06T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/ons-high-street-retail-jobs-fall-in-every-region-except-london\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:01:29","slug":"ons-high-street-retail-jobs-fall-in-every-region-except-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/ons-high-street-retail-jobs-fall-in-every-region-except-london\/","title":{"rendered":"ONS: High street retail jobs fall in every region except London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of high street retail jobs <strong>fell in every region of England, Scotland and Wales except for London<\/strong> between 2012 and 2017, figures show.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While <strong>high street retail jobs grew by 6% over the five years in the capital,<\/strong> Wales suffered the steepest slump of 10%, followed by Scotland (8.6%), Yorkshire and the Humber (7%), the East (5.7%) and the East Midlands (4.9%), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported.<\/p>\n<p>However high street employment within the accommodation and food sector surged by more than 20% in every country and region.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>number of businesses overall on the high street increased by 15%<\/strong> between 2012 and 2017, compared with a 22% increase in non-high street areas, the first joint project between the ONS and Ordnance Survey shows.<\/p>\n<p>But the <strong>number of retail businesses fell by 2% during this time<\/strong>, while those based elsewhere grew by 6%.<\/p>\n<p>The figures are more evidence of a difficult environment for high street retailers over the period and <strong>precede two more years of torrid conditions that saw a series of major names collapsing into administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report also shows that the <strong>retail sector provided between 25% and 31% of high street employment<\/strong> in all regions and countries of Great Britain except London, where it reached 18%.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, around 10.3m people, or <strong>16% of the British population, lived within 200 metres of a high street.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>High street areas saw a 6% population growth over the five years<\/strong>, compared with 3% in non-high street areas.<\/p>\n<p>The ONS noted that the high street was in a \u201cperiod of change\u201d, saying: \u201cThe closure of branches of retailers across many high streets has <strong>led to worries about the decline of retail on the high street<\/strong>, and in turn anxiety about how high streets will develop in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this context, it is important that good data on high streets are available to monitor the changes and inform policy responses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, the ONS and Ordnance Survey have joined together to identify high streets across Great Britain and to produce some initial analysis that investigates a range of data comparing the recent trends on the high street with those in non-high street areas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":150599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10494],"tags":[3588,14175],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ONS: High street retail jobs fall in every region except London - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The number of high street retail jobs fell in every region of England, Scotland and Wales except for London between 2012 and 2017, figures show. 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