{"id":744833,"date":"2026-08-21T06:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744833\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T06:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:28:18","slug":"ni-saw-largest-rise-in-disposable-income-of-any-uk-region-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744833\/","title":{"rendered":"NI saw largest rise in disposable income of any UK region in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

However the figures are also likely to reflect the fact that real wages across the Northern Ireland private sector were rising in 2024.<\/p>\n

The figures show that, on average, real disposable income per person in the UK rose by 3.1%, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The lowest increase of 2.2% was in the north east of England.<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland is in the middle of the pack overall with real disposable income per person of \u00a322,258, marginally below the north west of England.<\/p>\n

The West Midlands, Yorkshire, Wales and the north east of England all have lower disposable incomes.<\/p>\n

London is an outlier with an average disposable income of more than \u00a336,000 per head although there are very large variations between London’s boroughs.<\/p>\n

The UK average is \u00a326,490 per head with only London, south east England and east of England above that.<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland’s relative position within the UK ranking has improved over the last decade, though that is largely because of a weakening performance in Wales and some of the English regions.<\/p>\n

Within Northern Ireland the largest average disposable income per head is in Lisburn and Castlereagh at \u00a324,515. <\/p>\n

The lowest is Derry and Strabane at \u00a320,375.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However the figures are also likely to reflect the fact that real wages across the Northern Ireland private…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}