Yeruham — Regional Data Profile
Official regional data for Yeruham, a yishuv in Israel — made comparable across yishuvim and traceable to source. Average wage: 10,592 ₪ (45th percentile of 255).
What the data shows
Yeruham sits in the central distribution of Israel yishuvim on average wage.
Its average wage is 10,592 ₪ — below the Israel median of 11,165 ₪. That is the official published figure, made comparable across yishuvim, with no score of ours layered on top.
Yeruham sits within the באר שבע region of Israel, which sets its peer-comparison set.
Of every metric we track for Israel, Yeruham departs most from its peers on Total Unemployment Benefit Recipients: at 1.7037 it is higher than 94% of the 255 yishuvim with data (94th percentile). The headline figure ranks it on one official metric; this is the number where Yeruham is genuinely unlike the rest.
Yeruham over time — 22 years (2002–2023)
Population, year by year — history only, no forecasts.
| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 8,600 |
| 2003 | 8,800 |
| 2004 | 8,700 |
| 2005 | 8,600 |
| 2006 | 8,500 |
| 2007 | 8,500 |
| 2008 | 8,500 |
| 2009 | 8,100 |
| 2010 | 8,300 |
| 2011 | 8,300 |
| 2012 | 8,700 |
| 2013 | 8,800 |
| 2014 | 9,000 |
| 2015 | 10,773 |
| 2016 | 9,200 |
| 2017 | 9,500 |
| 2018 | 9,975 |
| 2021 | 11,031 |
| 2022 | 11,170 |
| 2023 | 11,910 |
Nearest neighbors
Three geographically closest yishuvim we track. Distances by great-circle approximation.
Statistical neighbours
Three yishuvim closest to Yeruham by official-score profile (Euclidean distance on the axis scores, same country only). Experimental — not a published SkyMind methodology.
Where these figures come from
Every number on this page is an official published figure — taken from the national statistics office or an equivalent official source, made comparable across Israel yishuvim under one schema, and traceable back to the source dataset. We add no score, index or ranking of our own; the ordering above simply sorts yishuvim by an official metric (average wage). Compare within a country, not across countries. See where every number comes from · methodology · believe a number is wrong? dispute it.
This is a descriptive comparison of official data, not a forecast. A higher figure means Yeruham currently reports a higher average wage than its peers. It does not predict any specific event, market move, or outcome.
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