Cities Outlook 2026
Think tank: Centre for Cities
Author(s): Centre for Cities
January 26, 2026
This report from UK think tank Centre for Cities focuses on the cities that offer lessons for a government looking to raise living standards everywhere.
Cities Outlook, our annual health check of the economic performance of urban Britain, offers a deep dive into the latest economic data on how UK cities are performing against a range of indicators including innovation, housing, skills, employment and productivity.
In a year where the government has emphasised its focus on tackling cost of living pressures, Cities Outlook 2026 considers the variation and performance of disposable incomes and deprivation across the country, and the national and local considerations needed to meet the Government’s economic mission to raising living standards, ‘everywhere, felt by everyone’.
