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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aamna Mohdin and Carmen Aguilar García

68% of Muslims in England and Wales live in areas with high unemployment

The exterior of Newham college’s Stratford campus.
Newham college’s Stratford campus. A third of people identified as Muslim in the borough, which has one of the highest unemployment rates. Photograph: Frank Baron/The Guardian

More than two-thirds of the Muslim community in England and Wales reside in areas with the highest rates of unemployment, analysis shows.

About 2.6 million Muslims live in local authorities where more than one in 20 of the population aged 16 to 64 is unemployed, according to analysis of census data, prompting fresh calls from campaigners for the levelling up agenda to also focus on young British Muslims.

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