UK – 15.9% of households where no adults work

• The percentage of households where no adults work was 15.9%, down 1.4 percentage points from a year earlier and the largest fall since comparable records began.
• The percentage of households where all adults work was 55.3%, up 1.5 percentage points from a year earlier.
• Of the regions in England and countries of the UK, the North East had the highest percentage of workless households at 21.2%, while the South East had the lowest at 12.3%.
• The percentage of households in which no adult has ever worked was 1.5%, the same as a year earlier.
• There were around 1.5 million children living in workless households, down 132,000 from a year earlier.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at Working and Workless Households, 2014 – Statistical Bulletin – ONS.