Business and Economy

As part of the Cultural Infrastructure Plan, an annual audit of pubs using the Inter-Departmental Business Register data is produced. The overall number of pubs in London has remained largely unchanged since 2018. There were 3,535 pubs in London in 2023. Overall employee numbers increased in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic in 2020. In 2023, there...

The Mayor is committed to measuring social integration in London. Providing evidence-based analysis of the state of social integration will allow him to shine a light on the whole city. Accompanying the Social Integration Strategy published in March 2018, the Mayor published a set of measures tracking social integration in London. These measures were selected from existing high-quality datasets, such as...

More than 26,500 London households have had their total benefit payment capped since the benefit cap was introduced in April 2013. Nearly half (45 per cent) of all households in Great Britain that have received reduced amounts because of the cap on the total payable, up to February 2015, were in London. Nearly 90 per cent of households...

Through reading this publication you will: • gain an understanding of how house prices are set in economics terms, how they are measured, and why the cost of housing matters for London’s economy and its residents • see whether incomes and earnings in London have kept pace with the costs of home ownership in London, and see how affordability may be affected...

These datasets accompany the London Secondary Heat Study (2013) and provides an understanding of the technical potential (available heat) and deployment potential (delivered heat) of eleven key secondary heat sources in London. The accompanying reports are available on the GLA website. Data available for Middle Super Output Areas (MSOA).

Local Authority level tourist spend estimates (£ millions). Indicitive borough level day visitor estimates for 2007 were derived from the LDA’s own experimental London level day visitor estimates. As such the borough level day visitor estimates should be treated with caution and the 2007 day visitor estimates are not comparable with those from previous years. They are intended only to give...

The Labour Market Indicators spreadsheet for boroughs and regions will no longer be updated from March 2015. The final version from March 2015 will still be available to download at the bottom of this page. Most of the data is available within datasets elsewhere on the Datastore. Workforce Jobs Unemployment Model based Unemployment for Boroughs Claimant Count rates for Boroughs and...

Packed with interesting information about our capital city, the Focus on London (FoL) report offers a unique snapshot of life in London.