Approximately 130,000 jobs in Espoo in 2022

The most recent official data concerning the number of jobs is from 2020, when there were 122,605 jobs in Espoo. In 2022, the estimated number of jobs in Espoo was 130,000. Between January and November 2022, there were approximately 113,000 jobs in companies in Espoo based on man-years.

15,141 unemployed jobseekers at the end of 2023

At the end of 2023, the share of unemployed people in the labour force in Espoo was 9.8 per cent, i.e. 1.1 percentage points higher than the year before. In Finland as a whole, the figure was 11.2 per cent. At the end of 2023, there were 15,141 unemployed people in Espoo. The figure was 16.0 per cent (2,092 people) higher than one year earlier.

Unemployed people of foreign origin accounted for 15.5 % of the labour force of foreign origin at the end of 2022

In comparison with the year before, the share of the unemployed in the labour force decreased by 1.4 percentage points among people of foreign origin. The employment rate of 20–64-year-old people of foreign origin was 62.7 per cent at the end of 2022. In comparison with the year before, the employment rate of people of foreign origin increased by 2.3 percentage points. At the end of 2021, the occupational group of professionals accounted for 28.7 per cent of employed people of foreign origin.