Hull and Bradford top list of Yorkshire homes where no-one works

Nearly 27 per cent of households in Hull were classed as workless in 2010, compared with one in nine in other regions, said the Office for National Statistics.

The figure in Bradford is 22 per cent and across South Yorkshire 21 per cent.

The figures were higher still in Liverpool and Glasgow, even though the numbers fell in the past year from 32.1% and 31.1% to 31.9% and 30.7%, while for Nottingham it increased from 31.3% to 31.6%.

Liverpool has had the highest number of workless households in five of the past seven years, today’s data showed.

Around a third of those not working in Liverpool and Glasgow were sick or disabled, the same as the national figure, while 43% of people in workless households in Nottingham gave study as their main reason, compared with 12% nationally.

The areas with the lowest number of workless households were Oxfordshire, Surrey, Aberdeen, and NE Moray, all around 11%.

The national figure for workless households is 18.9%.

• More analysis in Friday’s Yorkshire Post