New U.K Demographic Maps Thread

[Serenity Now]

Brighton and Hove. I don't know the place very well, so maybe someone else could comment. Cough.

There's nothing I'd like to do more.. (Thanks for doing these!)

Smoking:
Highest in poor and/or working class estates such as Whitehawk, Moulsecoomb and Bevendean. Lowest in mature well-off suburbs around Hove Park, Withdean and Rottingdean. Age is also a factor, with the orange-ish areas in the city centre tending to be generally middle class areas containing lots of students (Lewes Road area) and youngish flat sharers (Western Road area). The SOA I live (coving Queen’s Park and Tarner) in is the orange one slightly to the east of the centre near the seafront, which has a significant presence of both these demographics.

Binge drinking:
Not much of a class correlation, but a strong age correlation if anything. Highest in areas with lots of young adults and students living in them (not much of a surprise).

Obesity:
Highest both in poorer areas where people presumably don’t get about very much (some of these areas actually have rather low car ownership). Lowest in areas with lots of young(ish) people whose binge drinking hasn’t caught up with them yet..

Fruit and veg:
High both in the youngish, bohemian areas around the centre, the mature affluent suburbs, and where they overlap (e.g. the area around Preston Park station).  Lowest in the more deprived estates. Amusingly enough, this is basically what an electoral map of Brighton and Hove would look like if you added the Green vote to the Tory vote..

Just in case anybody cares, here’s a key that should give an idea of what the areas are:

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Employment by industry in Manchester. So, yeah. A special prize for anyone who can sport where the airport is.

[Hash]

I know! The southernmost ward. Now, give me my special prize.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, Newcastle is pretty polarised. Richest SOAs are both in Gosforth (one of the poshest suburbs in the whole of Northern England), poorest are based on Walker (an old shipbuilding district that's fallen on hard times) and Elswick (inner city area home to an unusually large Muslim population for that part of the world).

[minionofmidas]

City centre  in yellow, third from east along the river? Or just to the west of that?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Most of the city centre is in the SOA immediately to the west of that yellow SOA. It's a little confusing because the Town Moor is in the same one as the city centre.

[Serenity Now]

NS-SEC (English and Welsh LAs):

[Serenity Now]

Housing tenure:



Bigger versions in the gallery.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Reposting the comment I made on t' gallery:

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Though would like to repeat the word "pretty". This must have taken you ages - great stuff.

[doktorb]

These maps are superb. I've come into this late, are there any plans for Lancashire at all ?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

These maps are superb. I've come into this late, are there any plans for Lancashire at all ?

There are no plans - things just sort of happen. Anywhere in Lancashire in particular? (presuming you don't mean Manchester and Liverpool )

[minionofmidas]

Own outright versus Mortgaged is interesting.

[afleitch]

Own outright versus Mortgaged is interesting.

And those two categories are at the heart of every election battle.

[doktorb]

These maps are superb. I've come into this late, are there any plans for Lancashire at all ?

There are no plans - things just sort of happen. Anywhere in Lancashire in particular? (presuming you don't mean Manchester and Liverpool )

LOL. I live in Preston, so go crazy. I'd love to see if, as I suspect, the mortgages stats and recent election results are essentially the same

[Rural Radical]

Ah, but look carefully:

Wouldnt Leicester South East be a better name?

[doktorb]

It covers both the southern and the southeastern parts of the city of Leicester's boundaries, so it's as accurate as it needs to be, imo.

[Rural Radical]

It covers both the southern and the southeastern parts of the city of Leicester's boundaries, so it's as accurate as it needs to be, imo.

Thats tame for you. I thought you would like Aylestone, Stoneygate and Highfields?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Cardiff NS-SEC stuff, by ward. Will do the same but by SOA fairly soon.

[minionofmidas]

What's with that south-central ward that's in the lowest bracket on each and every one of these? Student Ghetto? Or just an error?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What's with that south-central ward that's in the lowest bracket on each and every one of these? Student Ghetto? Or just an error?

Cathays ward; covers a large part of the city centre (where no one lives) and Cathays itself, which includes Cardiff University and is studentland. Ward is 60% full time student.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

As an aside, some of those patterns look quite unusual. Will have to find out if this is a Cardiff thing, a Welsh thing or a port-city thing.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

By middle SOA.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Swansea, by ward. Swansea UA covers a good deal more than Swansea proper, though defining Swansea proper seems to be impossible anyway.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Approximate places in Cardiff, on a map of lower SOA's coloured in according to constituency. The point of this will become clear in a moment.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

large version here

*There was no 'Welsh' option on the ethnicity section of the 2001 census. There was a media campaign to encourage people to write in 'Welsh' on that section of the census forum. The ONS published the figures. It's not entirely sure what the show, but they show something, so...