HELSINKI ALUEITTAIN

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