Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
North East England Employment Rate
Employment, unemployment and population indicators for reading North East England property prices and rents in wider labour-market context.
Employment rate
71.1%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
5.4%
Economically active
Economic inactivity
25.1%
Aged 16-64
Resident population
2,748,748
ONS 2024
Apr 2026-Jun 2026 / ASHE 2025
North East England labour-market context
Employment data does not predict house prices by itself, but it helps frame affordability and local economic context.
Resident population
2,748,748
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£35,989
North East England
Median resident weekly pay
£692
Full-time employees
Employment rate
71.1%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
5.4%
Economically active
Average monthly rent compared with estimated monthly earnings.
Labour market rates are from the ONS Annual Population Survey profile shown by Nomis. Where the local APS unemployment value is suppressed, the ONS model-based unemployment estimate is used. Earnings are ONS ASHE resident-analysis median full-time employee earnings. Annual pay is annualised from weekly pay for display context.
North East England has a resident population of 2,748,748, according to the latest ONS/Nomis labour-market profile. That population context matters because it sets the scale of the local workforce and the pool of households competing for homes and rentals.
On earnings, ASHE shows a resident median full-time weekly pay of £692.10.