There were 285,000 jobs in Buckinghamshire in 2017, 0.87 for every working age resident, giving Buckinghamshire the 13th highest jobs density among the 27 county council areas, ranking 16th among the 38 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs).
Buckinghamshire’s jobs density rose 13.0 per cent from 2012 to 2017, well above the national and regional rates of increase, to record the 9th strongest growth among both county council areas and LEPs. In 2017, Buckinghamshire’s jobs density was above the national level for a third successive year and drew level with the South East for the first time since 2006.
Table 1: Jobs and jobs density, 2017
Source: Jobs Density, ONS, 2019
Chart 1: Jobs density over time
Source: Jobs Density, ONS, 2019
