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Berkshire Case Study - Coggle Diagram
Berkshire Case Study
Employment Types
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Towns such as Reading, Slough and Bracknell host major ICT companies such as Microsoft and Oracle
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Property Prices
The wealth of the villages helped fund the rural economies however house prices are continually rising - 40%-50% between 2005-2015
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Employent Data
In 2008, the ONS found that ~50% of workers in Berkshire were employed in knowledge-based, managerial and professional occupations
It is estimated that Berkshire will need an additional 70,000 well-qualified workers by 2020
Many companies are looking overseas, and in 2011, they recruited between 7000 and 11,000 workers from outside the EU
Physical Geography
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West of the county - River Thames and Kennet created a wide, flat floodplain - good for high-quality housing and business developments
IMD Data
0.4% of the neighbourhoods falling under the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership are classed as deprived by the IMD
There are only five partnerships where <1% of neighbourhoods are in the most deprived decile of this Index nationally
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