Vital Signs MK 2025 - Report - Page 24
13.75%
The number of creative
and cultural businesses in
Milton Keynes has decreased
from 15.8% in 2019 to
13.75% in 2023.
89.39% 36.41%
The proportion of people
that engaged with the Arts
in person in the previous
12 months to being surveyed
in Milton Keynes is 89.39%.20
The proportion of people that
engaged with the Arts digitally
in the previous 12 months to
being surveyed in Milton
Keynes is 36.41%.21
£2,275,095
13.75%
Milton Keynes received £2,275,905
of Arts Council England funding in 2023/24.
This is an increase from the £1,837,438
received in 2018/19.18
In Milton Keynes, there are 1,990 businesses in the
creative and cultural sectors (13.75%). This is higher
than the proportion of creative and cultural businesses
in South East (6.87%) and higher than the proportion
in England (9.3%). Additionally, this is higher than
the percentage of creative and cultural businesses
across the whole of the UK economy (12.65%).19
