Profile: Parliamentary Constituency - Jarrow

Area (km2) : 52

Resident Population in 2001: 81,439

People eligible to vote: 61,814

Ethnic Groups (%)

    • White : 98.5
    • Mixed : 0.4
    • Asian : 0.8
    • Black : 0.1
    • Chinese/other : 0.2

Economically Active Population (Census 2001) : 36,599

Claimant Unemployment Rate* (March 2005) : 5.3

Constituent Census Wards:

    • Bede
    • Boldon Colliery
    • Cleadon and East Boldon
    • Fellgate and Hedworth
    • Hebburn Quay
    • Hebburn South
    • Monkton
    • Primrose
    • Whitburn and Marsden
    • Wrekendyke (GD)

* uses economically active population from 2001 Census as denominator.

Source: Population figures; 2001 Census Area Statistics, © Crown Copyright.  Ethnicity figures; 2001 Census Area Statistics, © Crown Copyright.  2001 Census Standard Tables, © Crown Copyright