Exeter real-terms wages fell nearly 5% in the year to 2023 according to a Devon Public Health Intelligence dashboard that combines cost of living-related risk data, while they rose in Mid Devon and Teignbridge and remained stable in East Devon.
Real-terms hourly pay in Exeter fell from £12.27 in 2022 to £11.68 in 2023, a decrease equivalent to £97.33 per month for typical full-time employees. It has risen by just 54 pence per hour in real terms since 2011.
Real-terms hourly pay in the Mid Devon and Teignbridge local authority districts, while lower than in Exeter, increased to £11.43 and £10.95 in the year to 2023, equating to monthly increases of £122.94 in Mid Devon and £98.84 in Teignbridge.
In East Devon real-terms hourly pay remained stable, falling by one penny per hour to £12.21 in the year to 2023, 53 pence per hour higher than the Exeter rate.
Real-terms hourly pay in Exeter vs neighbouring Mid Devon, East Devon and Teignbridge local authority districts from 2011 to 2023. Source: Devon Public Health Intelligence.
The Devon Public Health Intelligence dashboard also identifies relative poverty risks by combining indicators of fuel poverty, child poverty, food poverty, income deprivation and whether residents are claiming unemployment benefit or pension credit.
It assigns a risk score to every Lower Super Output Area – a statistical neighbourhood geography comprising between 400 and 1,200 households with a resident population between 1,000 and 3,000 people – across the county.
Several Exeter neighbourhoods score among the highest risk ratings on its combined indicator scale, including several areas around Burnthouse Lane, Lancelot Road, Leypark Road and Newman Road.
The area of Burnthouse Lane beside Topsham Road ranked third among the 282 neighbourhoods in Exeter, Mid Devon, East Devon and Teignbridge, and eleventh among all 707 neighbourhoods in Devon.
Exeter neighbourhood relative deprivation indices, 2019. Source: Consumer Data Research Centre.
The dashboard uses sources of data including the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, the Department for Work and Pensions, the former Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the Office for National Statistics.
It also uses government indices which are combined and republished by the Consumer Data Research Centre at University College London to provide a very high quality source of UK-wide relative deprivation data.
Devon Public Health Intelligence is part of Devon County Council’s Public Health Team.
