{"id":83894,"date":"2022-12-08T05:08:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoutlier.co.za\/?p=83894"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:42:20","slug":"fewer-people-employed-in-gautengs-metros-now-than-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2022\/12\/08\/fewer-people-employed-in-gautengs-metros-now-than-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer people employed in Gauteng\u2019s metros now than in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Almost one in four working-age South Africans lives in three metros in Gauteng \u2013 Ekurhuleni, Tshwane and Johannesburg \u2013 and fewer of them are employed now than in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September this year 4.35-million people had jobs compared with 4.4-million people in the same quarter of 2015. This is a drop of 50,000, according to the latest employment data by Stats SA<\/a>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, between 2015 and 2022 the working age population (15-64 years) in these metros has increased by 1.2-million from 8.3-million to 9.5-million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decrease in the number of people employed was because of Ekurhuleni which shed over 110,000 jobs between 2015 and 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cape Town and eThekwini both have more people working now than in 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In KwaZulu-Natal, eThekwini has the fifth biggest working-age population and the number of people working has increased from 1.1-million to 1.2-million between 2015 and 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cape Town has the second largest working-age population in the country and the second largest number of working people outside of Johannesburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of people employed in the city has grown slightly from 1.47-million to 1.5-million over the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ekurhuleni is the reason for the drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,446,1387],"tags":[241,242,243],"newsletter-post":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-83894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-government","category-news","category-the-outlier","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-statssa"],"acf":{"big_number":null,"big_number_caption":null,"big_number_link":null,"big_number_background":null,"big_number_text_colour":null,"big_number_icon":null,"big_number_wide":null,"featured_chart":null,"flourish_chart_id":null,"flourish_sub_title":null,"flourish_chart_width":null,"is_newsletter_post":null,"post_style":null,"show_on_front":null,"link_through":null,"chart_url":null,"background_colour":null,"text_colour":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86578,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83894\/revisions\/86578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83894"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-post?post=83894"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=83894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}