London Creative Enterprise Zones: Job, Business, and Turnover Data 2015-2024

Greater London Authority provides data on London's Creative Enterprise Zones and other creative areas. The repository contains estimated job counts (2015-2023), business counts (2015-2024), and turnover figures (2015-2023) for creative sectors defined by DCMS SIC codes. Data is aggregated to middle super output areas (MSOAs) and sourced from ONS surveys and business registers.

Use Cases

• Analyze employment trends in London's creative sectors based on annual job count estimates.
• Map the density of creative businesses across specific geographic zones based on business counts.
• Estimate economic output and business churn (births/deaths) within Creative Enterprise Zones using scaled turnover data.
• Compare the economic impact of different creative subsectors using the provided SIC code classifications.

Strengths

• Job and business data spans a multi-year period from 2015 to 2024.
• Data is geographically specific, linked to agreed-upon middle super output areas (MSOAs).
• Creative sector definition is based on the official DCMS SIC code list.

Limitations

• Turnover, births, and deaths data are described as broad estimates scaled from local authority-level figures.
• Job counts exclude sole traders and freelancers not registered for PAYE.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Greater London Authority, using data from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Collection Method

Aggregated from ONS Business Register & Employment Survey, UK Business Counts, and the Interdepartmental Business Register (IDBR).

Time Range

Job data: 2015-2023. Business data: 2015-2024. Turnover data: 2015-2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 12:00:41.013110; freshness should be verified.

Geography

London, specifically Creative Enterprise Zones and other creative areas, mapped to middle super output areas (MSOAs).