How well do you know your area?

 

Details from the Census 2021 have been turned into quizzes by the team from ONS who have frequently created and shared interactive comment.

How well do you know your area?

There is a wide range of questions here to choose from.

How well do you know your local area?

We’ve added some more questions to our interactive #Census 2021 quiz 🗺️❓

Try to guess things like:

🏠 most common number of bedrooms
🩺 how people reported their health
🎓 qualification levels

➡️ https://t.co/lnm0wnbH61 pic.twitter.com/mmbNePjqcK

— Office for National Statistics (ONS) (@ONS) April 3, 2023

Give it a go. It's embedded below: 

Popbuilder

Thanks to Brendan Conway for the tipoff to this site, which provides population estimates and structure for specific small areas in the UK.

🆕 What's the population of your area? Instant #demographic profiles for #LSOAs (Eng+Wales) #DataZones (Scot) mid-2020 using 'Population Builder' by brilliant @olihawkins #demography #COP26 #population #GIS @GIS4Schools @Dav1dM0rgan @Glasgow_Live @madewulf https://t.co/a2TFgZVj3J pic.twitter.com/DFHkV0ZZXj

— BC (@mildthing99) October 31, 2021

Popbulder is a web-app that lets you build a population estimate for a set of small areas in Great Britain. The estimates are for the population in mid-2020.

1. The boundaries appear automatically when the map is zoomed in.

2. Click or tap the areas of interest: the estimated population is shown in the top right.

3. Click or tap “Get data” to see the age-distribution.

4. Turn the boundaries on and off manually using the boundary control in the bottom right.

Created by Oli Hawkins.

Here's the pyramid for my particular part of mid-Norfolk - as you can see it's quite a top heavy population distribution.

DataShine

DataShine is another opportunity to access data from the Census 2011.
There are some good opportunities for filtering and displaying the data in various ways.

Thanks to Oliver O'Brien for the lead to DATASHINE. This map below, for example, focusses on properties that are usually empty.
This is Windermere in the Lake District, and the red colour tells you that the houses are mostly empty, which means that they are second properties. What impact does this have on those communities ?
Which other areas have lots of red properties ?

This would fit nicely with the enquiry in Chapter 10 of my book 'Fieldwork through Enquiry'.

You could also use it to create mystery type questions. E.g. which religion is shown in red in these cities ?

Use the tool or your knowledge of the Midlands to find out the answer...