2011 Census Maps (England and Wales)

[YL]

Why is Argyll losing population while the rest of the Highlands gains?

I think the declines in Argyll & Bute are in outlying parts of Greater Glasgow, not in the Highland bits.

Edit: actually, looking at a ward map that afleitch posted here before, it seems more complicated than that, but the more obviously Highland-like areas don't seem to be declining.

[afleitch]

Why is Argyll losing population while the rest of the Highlands gains?

I think the declines in Argyll & Bute are in outlying parts of Greater Glasgow, not in the Highland bits.

Edit: actually, looking at a ward map that afleitch posted here before, it seems more complicated than that, but the more obviously Highland-like areas don't seem to be declining.

We have seen Glasgow gain population for the first time since 1951. East Dumbartonshire lost population in 2001 and has lost yet more; it's one of the richest parts of Scotland, so much so that it effectively prices people out of staying there, particularly young professional couples. As a result it has an aging population and so has seen a drop.

The same is true in Helensburgh, which broadly accounts for the drop in population in Argyll and Bute. West Dumbartonshire dropped too, as it did in 2001. Inverclyde has been falling every year since 1951, falling from 137,000 to 81,000. There's a general stagnation in suburbs and towns to the west of Glasgow, but a growth in such places to the east, mostly in Lanarkshire. There's a general eastward drift generally

The Highlands have seen a boost, most likely due to growth in Inverness, including a sizeable Polish migrant community there.

Will be helpful to see what the more local figures are like.

[minionofmidas]

In terms of patterns within Wales, the historically dominant denominations in the Valleys (Baptists and Independents - that is, Congregationalists. Edit: Baptists further east, Independents further west. Mostly) had a particularly stark decline in terms of active membership and all that from 1920 onwards, much more so than the Presbyterian Church of Wales up here or the CiW (which, in complete contrast, had a pretty good Twentieth Century).

What about the Calvinistic Methodists.

[YL]

Here's population change by ward in Sheffield.  The 2001 figures (which I got from the Council website) may be a bit dodgy, as the wards were totally different then, and they're rounded to the nearest 100, which shouldn't affect the picture much.  Changes are in percent, base map due to Jonathan Harston.



(Central went from 17,300 to 36,412.  I think it now has the highest population of any ward in England.)

[afleitch]

Some raised eyebrows at the Scottish figures. They have been rounded to the nearest 1000 suggesting a lack of confidence in the final tally (though the department says otherwise) The response rate was 93.7% but in Glasgow was as low as 89%. The confidence rate means that Glasgow's population could be higher than the estimated 593,000, to perhaps 604,000. Some grumblings at the release.

[Serenity Now]

What follows is some analysis of the top 10 local authorties for unusual answers to the religion question:

‘Druid’
1   Mendip
2   North Dorset
3   Lewes
4   West Devon
5   West Lindsey
6   Wiltshire UA
7   Weymouth and Portland
8   Isle of Wight UA
9   Oadby and Wigston
10   North Somerset UA
   
These are districts I'd expect wizardy weirdos to live in.

‘Heathen’
1   Isles of Scilly UA
2   Rossendale
3   Monmouthshire
4   South Hams
5   Lancaster
6   Eastbourne
7   Ceredigion
8   Winchester
9   Swindon UA
10   Newark and Sherwood
   
‘Ditto' (I hate that term).

‘Pagan’
1   Mendip
2   Ceredigion
3   Weymouth and Portland
4   Cornwall UA
5   Hastings
6   Isle of Wight UA
7   Forest of Dean
8   Torridge
9   West Devon
10   Brighton and Hove UA

‘Ditto’ again (I hate myself).

‘Own Belief System’
1   Isles of Scilly UA
2   Ceredigion
3   City of London
4   Adur
5   Norwich
6   Brighton and Hove UA
7   South Hams
8   Merthyr Tydfil
9   Hastings
10   Cambridge
   
This one seems to be a mixture of smug urbanites and desperately isolated people

‘Satanism’
1   Bolsover
2   Exeter
3   Fylde
4   North Dorset
5   Pendle
6   Sedgemoor
7   Bournemouth UA
8   Hastings
9   Torfaen
10   West Somerset
   
I have no idea why Bolsover is number one.

‘Scientology’
1   Mid Sussex
2   Wealden
3   Rother
4   Tandridge
5   Poole UA
6   Crawley
7   Hammersmith and Fulham
8   City of London
9   Brighton and Hove UA
10   Plymouth UA
   
Seriously, as someone who lives in Sussex, I'm surrounded by pr**ks..

‘Wicca’
1   Gosport
2   Lincoln
3   Thanet
4   Worthing
5   Ceredigion
6   North Warwickshire
7   Rushmoor
8   North Dorset
9   Forest Heath
10   Fenland
   
I'm guessing Goth kids living in generally boring areas..

‘Witchcraft’
1   Mendip
2   Ceredigion
3   Lewes
4   North Norfolk
5   North Lincolnshire UA
6   Boston
7   Taunton Deane
8   South Holland
9   Suffolk Coastal
10   Uttlesford

See the other witchy/wizardly religions..   

'Free thinker'
1   Waveney
2   Windsor and Maidenhead UA
3   North West Leicestershire
4   North Devon
5   Eastbourne
6   Bolton
7   Fylde
8   Horsham
9   Darlington UA
10   Runnymede
   
I was expecting more bourgeois-bohemian areas but I was wrong. The fact that I was wrong suggests that these people truly are free thinkers, with minds completely uninhibited by superstitions and biases inflicted upon them by the opinions of any other person anywhere on earth.

‘Heavy Metal’
1   Norwich
2   Tameside
3   Bolton
4   Brighton and Hove UA
5   North West Leicestershire
6   Salford
7   Trafford
8   Manchester
9   Copeland
10   Oadby and Wigston
   
I'm guessing the people in the southern districts who described themselves as 'Heavy Metal' were joking and those in the northern ones around Greater Manchester are genuinely terrifying/cool.  Well probably not, they're probably students as well.

‘Humanist’
1   South Hams
2   West Devon
3   Cambridge
4   Lewes
5   Brighton and Hove UA
6   West Dorset
7   Stroud
8   Oxford
9   West Somerset
10   Torridge
   
'What do you believe in?'
'I believe in humans.'
'Wow, you're so amazing.'

‘Jedi Knight’
1   Brighton and Hove UA
2   Isles of Scilly UA
3   Norwich
4   Adur
5   Southampton UA
6   Portsmouth UA
7   Bournemouth UA
8   Hastings
9   Isle of Wight UA
10   Bristol, City of UA
   
OMG I living in Brighton it's got such an unique/alternative/individual(istic) vibe!  Although seriously, I did love the Star Wars films when I was a child.  This was because I was a child..  I was a child..

‘Realist’
1   St Albans
2   Worcester
3   Reading UA
4   Taunton Deane
5   Brighton and Hove UA
6   Tendring
7   Blaenau Gwent
8   Mid Sussex
9   Derbyshire Dales
10   Mendip
   
St Albans is SO realist.  You get a really realistic perspective of the universe and all life within it from St Albans.  If you want a realistic answer to all the great questions, look no further than St Albans.  St Albans elected a Lib Dem council for a while, but now it has a Conservative one. It was the was the realistic thing to do.

[minionofmidas]

What follows is some analysis of the top 10 local authorties for unusual answers to the religion question:

‘Druid’
9   Oadby and Wigston
   
These are districts I'd expect wizardy weirdos to live in.

That one doesn't fit in with the others.

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Must be all those dark satanic pits.

"Heavy Metal" as a religion? How many people did that?


Meh. I'd probably describe myself as a Pantheist if I had such a census question before me so I can't blame any of these people.

[doktorb]

Where is the breakdown for religion please? I've been on the ONS and can't find anything?

I'd love to find the breakdown tables

[YL]

Where is the breakdown for religion please? I've been on the ONS and can't find anything?

I'd love to find the breakdown tables

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-286262

For full breakdown of religion you need to go to "QS210EW Religion (detailed), local authorities in England and Wales", on page 2.

[minionofmidas]

A beautiful document.

I had to look up three of the listed religions (though one of them - Thelemite - stood for a group I was aware of, Crowleians. The others were Ravidassia and Eckankar.)

[doktorb]

Where is the breakdown for religion please? I've been on the ONS and can't find anything?

I'd love to find the breakdown tables

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-286262

For full breakdown of religion you need to go to "QS210EW Religion (detailed), local authorities in England and Wales", on page 2.

Cheers

[Serenity Now]

What follows is some analysis of the top 10 local authorties for unusual answers to the religion question:

‘Druid’
9   Oadby and Wigston
   
These are districts I'd expect wizardy weirdos to live in.

That one doesn't fit in with the others.

Didn't notice that once - yes, doesn't really fit in..

[YL]

‘Jedi Knight’
1   Brighton and Hove UA
2   Isles of Scilly UA
3   Norwich
4   Adur
5   Southampton UA
6   Portsmouth UA
7   Bournemouth UA
8   Hastings
9   Isle of Wight UA
10   Bristol, City of UA

Why would this be highest on the South Coast (and indeed off it)?

[YL]

How about some more top tens?  The total numbers for some of these are pretty small.

Animism

1. Ceredigion
2. Lewes
3. West Dorset
4. West Devon
5. South Oxfordshire
6. Brighton & Hove
7. West Somerset
8. Stroud
9. Oxford
10. Teignbridge

Deist

1. Weymouth & Portland
2. Broxtowe
3. Forest of Dean
4. Norwich
5. Camden
6. Exeter
7. Reading
8. Babergh
9. St. Albans
10. Tower Hamlets

Mysticism

1. Mole Valley
2. Hackney
3. Westminster
4. Kettering
5. Torridge
6. West Somerset
7. South Northamptonshire
8. Babergh
9. Brighton & Hove
10. Hartlepool

New Age

1. Eden
2. Mendip
3. Kensington & Chelsea
4. Hastings
5. Ceredigion
6. Carlisle
7. Weymouth & Portland
8. Braintree
9. East Devon
10. Shropshire

Pantheism (for Lewis)

1. City of London
2. Mendip
3. Melton
4. South Hams
5. Brighton & Hove
6. Lewes
7. West Devon
8. Cambridge
9. Exeter
10. Craven

Traditional African Religion

1. City of London
2. Southwark
3. Lewisham
4. Enfield
5. Wycombe
6. Newham
7. Brent
8. Dartford
9. Sheffield
10. Lambeth

(I only included that one because we're in the top 10.)

[freefair]

Essentially, the weird/silly religions are mostly found in
- University towns like Oxford, Cambridge, Brighton, Exeter, Norwich, Aberystwyth and Lampeter (Ceredigion)
- South western rural rural boheme's, many areas around Stonehenge, perhaps unsurprisingly       -A few northern areas. I'd expect many of them attended "University College of Life" too.

[Serenity Now]

This map shows the percentage point change in the proportion of people categorised as Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations, Lower Managerial and Professional Occupations and Intermediate Occupations. The middle classes (in the British sense of the word) basically. Dark blue reflects an increase of over 14%, light blue an increase of over 9%, yellow an increase of over 5% and only red reflects a decrease.

[joevsimp]

Where is the breakdown for religion please? I've been on the ONS and can't find anything?

I'd love to find the breakdown tables

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-286262

For full breakdown of religion you need to go to "QS210EW Religion (detailed), local authorities in England and Wales", on page 2.

Cheers

no unitarians on there, were they lumped in with Christians you reckon?

[Serenity Now]

Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above



Left: Highest level of qualification: % with Level 4 qualifications and above
Right: Percentage point change since 2001.

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The map below shows concentration within local authority boundaries.



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[Serenity Now]

Highest qualification level: Percent with no qualifications



Left: Percent with no qualifications
Right: Percentage point change since 2001

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[Filuwaúrdjan]

The map on the right is quite telling.

[afleitch]

Not quite census related but interesting none the less.

A map of 'support' of Premier League clubs by tweet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jan/11/premier-league-team-twitter-map?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

It only works well team by team (and doesn't work at all in Scotland etc) though the 'rivalries' are good at very local levels, like the Newcastle/Sunderland split.

[Serenity Now]

The map on the right is quite telling.

On the degree map or the no qualifications map?

[Franknburger]

Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above



Left: Highest level of qualification: % with Level 4 qualifications and above
Right: Percentage point change since 2001.

Bigger version in Gallery: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=8233

Pretty easy to spot Cambridge! Oxford is more difficult, though.
What is going on on the south-western cost? And that place on the East Anglia south coast the educated ones are fleeing from, is that Ipswich?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The map on the right is quite telling.

On the degree map or the no qualifications map?

Well, both are obviously, but I was thinking of the no qualifications one in particular.

[afleitch]

This is a simple map of which answer to the religious question came out top in London. Few points of note. The dark grey represents ‘None’ and the light grey area represents those who picked ‘none’ and also those who ‘did not answer.’ The two responses are very closely correlated, if there are high responses to ‘none’ there are similarly high responses to ‘d.n.a.’ The mixed colour wards have Muslim as the largest single response but ‘None/dna’ as the largest collective response.