Standing view · pay · Forest of Dean
improving, held with established confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2025.
Pay in Forest of Dean has been growing, on the household income measure. Household income per head was 22,925 in 2024, recorded as favourable against the usual pattern for its year, and that is the single directional reading here. The hourly distribution gives the level rather than the movement, and it is published on two bases: in 2025 the median reads 19.65 and 16.43, the 25 percentile 15.36 and 14.19, and the 10 percentile 13.05, against a median of 15.73 and a 25 percentile of 12.58 in 2024. Any analysis has to say which basis it is using.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Forest of Dean. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Household income per head | 2024 | improving |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| 25 percentile | 2024 | — |
| Median | 2024 | — |
| 10 percentile | 2025 | — |
| 25 percentile | 2025 | — |
| Median | 2025 | — |
| 25 percentile | 2025 | — |
| Median | 2025 | — |