The most recent unemployment figures for February 2023 were published by the Office for National Statistics on 14th March 2023.
The data shows that 22,055 people were claiming unemployment benefit in February 2023 - a rate of 6.5% of the working age population and an increase of 480 claimants since last month, and a decrease of 2,200 since February 2022.
There were 4,590 claimants aged between 18-24 and 4,340 claimants aged 50+.
Bradford had the highest unemployment rate in the Leeds City Region, most local authorities have seen very little change in their claimant rates in the last month.
The claimant rate for Leeds City Region was 4.7%, for Yorkshire and the Humber was 4.1% and for the United Kingdom was 3.7%.
The unemployment data in the bulletin includes people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance and people claiming Universal Credit who are required to seek work and be available for work.
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