Working in Sussex and the south-east

The south-east has the highest number of residents in employment of all UK regions. It covers 19,000 square kilometres stretching around London. It includes Kent, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Industry clusters in the south-east

  • Aerospace and defence
  • Construction
  • Digital media and communications
  • Environmental technologies
  • Marine
  • Security

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Economic snapshot 2009

  • there were 402,895 businesses in the south-east
  • 99.6% of these businesses were small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) employing less than 250 people
  • 10.4% of working-age people were self-employed

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