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Household expenditure (bar chart)
The bar chart below is taken from the UK national statistics website .
Average weekly household expenditure, by region, 2007-09
The bar chart
shows average weekly spending by households in different areas of England between
2007 and 2009.
Households in the south of the country spent more on average than those in the north.
Average weekly spending by households was highest
in London and lowest in the
North East.
English households spent on average around £470 per week. The average expenditure
for households in London was about £560
per week, almost £100 more than the
overall figure for England.
Households in the South East,
East and South West also
spent more than the national average. Weekly household
spending figures for those
three regions were approximately £520, £490 and £480 respectively.
Similar levels of household spending were seen in the West Midlands, the North West
and the East Midlands, at about £430 to £450 per week. In the region of Yorkshire and
the Humber, households spent approximately £400 per week, while expenditure in the
North East was around £10 per week lower than this. It
is noticeable that average
weekly expenditure by households in the North East was around £80 less than the
national average, and around £170 less than the London average.
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