Coast to Capital's COVID-19 Economic Impact Dashboard

COVID-19 Economic Impact Dashboard

The C2C COVID-19 Economic Impact Dashboard is a companion to the full Coast to Capital Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economic Impact Assessment (EIA), which can be found here.

The dashboard presents a summary of key impact indicators and has been updated with data covering the period of August 2021 to October 2021. In some cases, there was a publication delay of some datasets with some indicators having more recent updates.

Headline findings

  • Estimates suggest our gross value added (GVA) could have declined by up to 12% in 2020, compared to a 9.9% contraction in the UK

  • Company insolvencies in 2021 are currently 8% higher than the 2020 total. However, the total number of new company registrations was higher than the total insolvencies in both 2020 and 2021

  • High growth companies continued to see more positive than negative impacts from the pandemic in October 2021 with 67% creating job opportunities

  • Crawley continued to have the highest percentage of those claiming Universal Credit with a rate of 5.8% in October 2021. This is 2 percentage points higher than the Coast to Capital average of 3.8%

  • Postings for Health professionals made up 11% of all postings in Coast to Capital in October 2021, compared to 9% for the South East and 8% in England

  • Coast to Capital had higher take up rates for both does of the COVID-19 vaccine by October 2021 for the 30-44 age group, at 3.6 percentage points higher than the England rate

  • Postings for 'green jobs' in Coast to Capital increased 47% between 2020 and 2021

For more information, or to view the dashboard, click here.