HELSINKI ALUEITTAIN
16_05_27_Helsinki_alueittain_2015_Tikkanen
16_05_27_Helsinki_alueittain_2015_Tikkanen
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The employment rate is high, over 80 per cent among<br />
20–64 year olds, in the districts of Östersundom, in<br />
the small-house-dominated districts in northern<br />
Helsinki and in Lauttasaari. In Jakomäki, it is only<br />
60 per cent, and in most districts in the Eastern Major<br />
District,too, it was clearly below average. Jakomäki<br />
also has the highest unemployment rate of all<br />
districts, 18 per cent.<br />
Those districts with the highest unemployment<br />
rate mostly lie in the Eastern Major District, where<br />
over one-third of the population live in areas with an<br />
unemployment rate of over 15 per cent.<br />
The income level of the population in Helsinki<br />
varies considerably. The median income per consumption<br />
unit in Helsinki’s districts was €24,341<br />
on average. In those districts where incomes were<br />
highest, namely Länsi-Pakila and Östersundom,<br />
incomes were 50 per cent higher than the average,<br />
while at the same time incomes in Jakomäki, the district<br />
where incomes were lowest, were 20 per cent<br />
below the average.<br />
The income distribution varied notably, too. In<br />
small-house dominated districts in northern Helsinki<br />
and in southern inner Helsinki, 40–47 per cent<br />
of households ranked among that fifth of helsinki<br />
residents who had the highest incomes. In Mellunkylä<br />
and Jakomäki, on the other hand, less than 10<br />
per cent were such high-income earners – with over<br />
one-quarter belonging to that fifth who had the lowest<br />
incomes.<br />
Use of municipal public services<br />
The extent to which public services provided by the<br />
municipality (council) in a district are used depends<br />
on the inhabitant structure and on how much and<br />
how relevant and good these services are felt to be.<br />
In Helsinki in 2014, almost 62 per cent of 1–6 year<br />
olds received day care at municipal day care centres.<br />
Day care was frequented somewhat more in the<br />
small-house areas of northern Helsinki, in Vironniemi,<br />
Oulunkylä, Kulosaari and Östersundom than in<br />
southern and western Helsinki.<br />
The use of municipal health care services depends<br />
on, among other things, the age structure of the population,<br />
its income level and its employment situation.<br />
These services were most commonly used in<br />
Maunula and Jakomäki and least in Östersundom,<br />
Tuomarinkylä and Ullanlinna.