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Revealed: Which industry does your home town specialise in?

Composite image showing different industries - Reuters/AFP
Composite image showing different industries - Reuters/AFP

Construction or tourism? Real estate or the arts? Which industry does your region specalise in?

New data from the Office for National Statistics has revealed the extent to which different industries are prevalent in every area of the country.

Input your town or city in the box below to find out which industry dominates your area.

What industry does your home area specialise in?

Lancashire is home to both Britain's manufacturing and construction capitals - although they're not the places that would immediately leap to mind.

Pendle - more famous for its witches - is a national hotspot for manufacturing while South Ribble - located to the south of Preston and home to an arm of BAE Systems - tops the pile for construction

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This doesn't mean that there are more manufacturing jobs in Pendle than anywhere else in the country. Rather, it means that there is a higher concentration of manufacturing jobs in the area than anywhere else.

Tourism-related sectors mapped

By calculating this in proportional terms, it means that areas with smaller populations can be compared fairly to larger urban centres.

By this token the Isles of Scilly is the tourism capital of Britain due to a very high concentration of jobs in the accommodation and food services sector. Aberdeen is king when it comes to the mining and quarrying sector and Barnet in London rules the roost when it comes to real estate.

Map - manufacturing jobs are rare in London

As well as being able to pinpoint specific hotspots for a given industry, the figures from the ONS also allow for a more general geographic analysis of the UK's industrial make-up.

Areas with a high concentration of tourism-related occupations tend, unsurprisingly, to be located along the coastal areas of the country.

Tech and IT sectors mapped

Traditional British holiday destinations such as Devon, Cornwall, the Lake District and rural Wales and Scotland also light up on the map when it comes to tourism.

Conversely, areas in the midlands are far less likely to have a high concentration of jobs of this type.

Science and tech jobs are found in highest concentration along the M4 corridor and in western areas of London, while manufacturing roles are conspicuous by their absence in the capital.

Construction and real estate sectors mapped

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