Creative Nation: Local profiles
Explore the data behind Creative Nation
Creative Nation uses official, open and web data to map the creative industries in the UK, their evolution, contribution to local economic development, the strength of their support ecosystems - including research and informal networking - and their connections with each other. Ultimately, it seeks to contribute to our understanding of the sector and inform the best policies to support it. It has been created by Nesta in collaboration with the Creative Industries Council.
In this interactive visualisation, you can explore the economic significance and evolution of the creative industries and its constituent sub-sectors in different parts of the UK. Although we have tried to be comprehensive as possible, more recent data and creative subsectoral data are not available for some of the locations we have analysed. We indicate when this is the case inside the relevant local profiles.
employs people in the creative industries (position employment_rank in the UK) and has creative business (position business_rank in the UK). We estimate that the creative industries contribute contribution to the local economy, this is % of the total GVA (position in the UK). Creative employment represent % of the local workforce, and creative businesses represent % of the business population.
employs people in the creative industries (position employment_rank in the UK) and has creative business (position business_rank in the UK). We estimate that the creative industries contribute contribution to the local economy, this is % of the total GVA (position in the UK). Creative employment represent % of the local workforce, and creative businesses represent % of the business population.
The largest creative sector in is largest_sector, with largest_emp employees and largest_bus businesses. The sector where has the strongest employment specialisation is specialisation, with activity as much activity as the UK average.
The fastest growing creative sector in is growth_sector_emp, which between 2011-14 and 2015-2016 created growth_emp jobs. In terms of number of businesses, the fastest growing sector is growth_sector_bc, which between 2011-14 and 2015-16 grew by growth_bc businesses.
In the last 6 years, high growth firms represented % of all creative businesses in , and created jobs (% of all jobs created in the period). % of the companies that existed in in 2011 survived more than one year, and % survived more than 5 years (position survival_rank in the UK).
There were collab_projects research projects funded by UK Research Councils or Innovate UK involving collaboration between local universities and creative businesses. These projects received £collab_fund million in funding (position collab_rank in the UK).
We have identified commu_number active communities in according to Meetup, with commu_participants participants in events in 2017 (position commu_rank in the UK). The most popular meetup topic is commu_topic, and the locations most connected to are location_1, location_2 and location_3.
This visualisation has been developed by Roxana Torre in collaboration with Nesta. Some of the micro-data it uses was processed by Frontier Economics at the ONS Virtual Micro-data Laboratory.
This work contains statistical data from ONS which is Crown Copyright. The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the statistical data. This work uses research datasets which may not exactly reproduce National Statistics aggregates.