This is a list of ceremonial counties in England by gross value added for the year 2021. Data is gathered by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and is given in terms of Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), statistical area codes used for the European Union, which loosely follow administrative units of the United Kingdom.
Gross value added (GVA) is a measure of the value of goods and services produced in a localized area without considering taxes and subsidies (unlike gross domestic product (GDP)). Additionally, the ONS's estimates on GVA adapt to regional disparities in commuting regions by allocating the GVA to the area in which an employee commuted from. They also use five-period moving averages to smooth data.
Rank | County | GVA [1] | GVA (US$) [2] | GVA per head [3] | GVA per capita (US$) [2] |
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1 | Greater London [note 1] | £487.437 billion | $670.567 billion | £54,762 | $75,336 |
2 | Greater Manchester | £78.744 billion | $108.328 billion | £27,884 | $38,360 |
3 | West Midlands | £70.961 billion | $97.621 billion | £24,385 | $33,547 |
4 | West Yorkshire | £60.137 billion | $82.730 billion | £25,988 | $35,752 |
5 | Hampshire | £57.838 billion | $79.568 billion | £31,230 | $42,963 |
6 | Surrey | £48.322 billion | $66.477 billion | £40,437 | $55,629 |
7 | Berkshire | £47.810 billion | $65.772 billion | £52,194 | $71,804 |
8 | Kent | £46.942 billion | $64.578 billion | £25,443 | $35,002 |
9 | Essex | £44.766 billion | $61.585 billion | £24,529 | $33,745 |
10 | Hertfordshire | £42.137 billion | $57.968 billion | £35,892 | $49,376 |
11 | Merseyside | £35.345 billion | $48.624 billion | £23,626 | $32,503 |
12 | Lancashire | £34.996 billion | $48.144 billion | £23,253 | $31,989 |
13 | Cheshire | £34.859 billion | $47.956 billion | £32,762 | $45,071 |
14 | Somerset [note 2] | £34.254 billion | $47.123 billion | £26,893 | $36,996 |
15 | Buckinghamshire | £31.528 billion | $43.373 billion | £39,410 | $54,216 |
16 | South Yorkshire | £28.971 billion | $39.855 billion | £20,753 | $28,550 |
17 | Cambridgeshire | £28.648 billion | $39.411 billion | £33,863 | $46,585 |
18 | Leicestershire and Rutland [note 3] | £28.123 billion | $38.689 billion | £25,566 | $35,172 |
19 | Nottinghamshire | £27.877 billion | $38.350 billion | £23,888 | $32,862 |
20 | Tyne and Wear | £27.303 billion | $37.561 billion | £24,205 | $33,299 |
21 | Devon | £26.367 billion | $36.273 billion | £22,232 | $30,584 |
22 | Staffordshire | £25.454 billion | $35.017 billion | £22,626 | $31,126 |
23 | Derbyshire | £25.413 billion | $34.961 billion | £23,975 | $32,982 |
24 | Lincolnshire | £25.107 billion | $34.540 billion | £23,269 | $32,011 |
25 | Oxfordshire | £24.208 billion | $33.303 billion | £34,832 | $47,918 |
26 | West Sussex | £23.296 billion | $32.048 billion | £26,994 | $37,136 |
27 | Wiltshire | £22.467 billion | $30.908 billion | £31,511 | $43,349 |
28 | North Yorkshire [note 4] | £22.103 billion | $30.407 billion | £22,857 | $31,445 |
29 | Norfolk | £20.669 billion | $28.434 billion | £23,120 | $31,806 |
30 | Northamptonshire | £20.608 billion | $28.350 billion | £27,811 | $38,260 |
31 | Suffolk | £19.620 billion | $26.991 billion | £22,169 | $38,260 |
32 | Warwickshire | £19.592 billion | $26.953 billion | £33,721 | $46,390 |
33 | East Sussex | £19.262 billion | $26.499 billion | £22,849 | $31,434 |
34 | Dorset | £19.137 billion | $26.327 billion | £25,048 | $34,459 |
35 | Gloucestershire | £19.123 billion | $26.308 billion | £20,401 | $28,065 |
36 | Durham [note 5] | £18.744 billion | $25.786 billion | £21,623 | $29,747 |
37 | Bristol | £16.773 billion | $23.075 billion | £35,687 | $49,095 |
38 | Bedfordshire | £15.525 billion | $21.358 billion | £23,775 | $32,707 |
39 | Worcestershire | £14.279 billion | $19.644 billion | £24,202 | $33,294 |
40 | East Riding of Yorkshire | £13.425 billion | $18.469 billion | £22,601 | $31,092 |
41 | Cumbria | £12.803 billion | $17.613 billion | £25,555 | $35,156 |
42 | Cornwall | £11.661 billion | $16.042 billion | £20,676 | $28,443 |
43 | Shropshire | £11.629 billion | $15.998 billion | £23,636 | $32,516 |
44 | Northumberland | £5.512 billion | $7.583 billion | £17,554 | $24,149 |
45 | Herefordshire | £4.141 billion | $5.697 billion | £20,399 | $28,063 |
46 | Isle of Wight | £2.589 billion | $3.562 billion | £19,915 | $27,398 |
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