Cheshire – UKD6

EU regions: United Kingdom > North West England > Cheshire

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2019	13.6
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2019	23.75
percentage of part time workers, men	2019	11.06
percentage of part time workers, women	2019	38.18
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2019	87.71
gender gap in unemployment rate	2019	90.91
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2010	27.8
NEET	2019	13.6
Employment
employment rate	2019	77.8

More on wikipedia wikidata Q23064 on OpenStreetMap Cheshire slovensky: UKD6

Subregions: Warrington, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2019	3.3
youth unemployment rate	2019	10.8
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2015	0.9
share of long term unemployed	2015	26.8

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2019	931 347
population density	2018	410.6
old-age dependency ratio	2019	34.9

Employment by sectors, Cheshire

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	10.2	2 %	B-E	64.3	14 %
F	27.6	6 %	G-I	100.6	22 %
J	17.2	4 %	K	22.3	5 %
M_N	53.4	12 %	O-Q	129.9	29 %
R-U	20	4 %	TOTAL	450.4	100 %

Data for the period year 2019. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia:

Cheshire (Welsh: Sir Gaer) CHESH-ər, -⁠eer; archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west. Cheshire's county town is the City of Chester (118,200); the largest town is Warrington (209,700). Other major towns include Crewe (71,722), Ellesmere Port (55,715), Macclesfield (52,044), Northwich (75,000), Runcorn (61,789), Widnes (61,464) and Winsford (32,610)

The county covers 905 square miles (2,344 km²) and has a population of around 1 million. It is mostly rural, with a number of small towns and villages supporting the agricultural and other industries which produce Cheshire cheese, salt, chemicals and silk.

History

Toponymy

Cheshire's name was originally derived from an early name for Chester, and was first recorded as Legeceasterscir in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, meaning „the shire of the city of legions“. Although the name first appears in 980, it is thought that the county was created by Edward the Elder around 920. In the Domesday Book, Chester was recorded as having the name Cestrescir (Chestershire), derived from the name for Chester at the time. A series of changes that occurred as English itself changed, together with some simplifications and elision, resulted in the name Cheshire, as it occurs today.

Because of the historically close links with the land bordering Cheshire to the west, which became modern Wales, there is a history of interaction between Cheshire and North Wales. The Domesday Book records Cheshire as having two complete Hundreds (Atiscross and Exestan) that later became the principal part of Flintshire. Additionally, another large portion of the Duddestan Hundred later became known as Maelor Saesneg when it was transferred to North Wales.

Other: North West England, Merseyside, Cumbria, Lancashire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester

Neighbours: East Wales, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester, Shropshire and Staffordshire, Merseyside

Subregions: Warrington, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: EU regions - Cheshire – UKD6, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​en/projects/eu-regions/UKD6

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