The number of people in Oxfordshire out of work and claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance fell by 69 last month to 4,985 or 1.7 per cent of the working population.
Marginal falls were recorded by the Office of National Statistics in all districts of the county, but Oxford city still has the highest proportion of workers receiving benefirt at 2.4 per cent. South Oxfordshire has the lowest at 1.4 per cent.
Year on year the number of people claiming benefit has fallen by 1,114 since December 2009.
Nationally, the number of people claiming the allowance fell by 4,100 last month to 1.46 million, but the national jobless total, including people out of work but not necessarily claiming benefit, has soared by 49,000 to 2.5 million — with a record number of young people out of work.
One in five 16 to 24 year-olds are jobless after an increase of 32,000 in the quarter to November to 951,000, the highest figure since records began in 1992.
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