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.