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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Profile picture
@bothness
Aug 9, 2021 • 8 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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1/ Ever wondered how your local area has changed over half a century? Today, @ONS is releasing an interactive article covering some of the most interesting changes between 1961 and 2011 England & Wales censuses right down to a local/district level ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
2/ This piece—developed by my colleagues @Annaekhoo (#DataJournalism) and @SamCtrl (#DataViz) from analysis by Amy Boyson (@ONS historical)—has been an opportunity to test some of the techniques we’re hoping to use to explore 100 years of change up to the most recent @Census2021
3/ In particular we've been exploring ways to use historical @OrdnanceSurvey maps painstakingly digitised by @natlibscotmaps as a background for the historical datasets. We hope this #steampunk-esque retro-innovation helps to bring the past to life...
4/ Some of the most interesting topics covered in the analysis include changes in demographics, home ownership and marrital status, but the one that had us all talking was the surprisingly low prevalence of indoor toilets in rural Wales and East Anglia back in 1961!
5/ The analysis in this article is based on newly digitised data from the 1961 Census, which is all available to explore and download from Nomis nomisweb.co.uk/query/select/g…
6/ If you want to work with the data — and especially if you want to visualise it — you’ll likely need to download the 1961 district boundaries from the @ONSgeography portal geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/local…
7/ And if you want to make comparisons with 2011 data, you can map 2011 Census small area data to 1961 districts with the help of this lookup file (unfortunately 1961 districts don’t neatly map the opposite way onto today’s local authority boundaries ☹️) geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/outpu…
8/ Oh... And if you're interested in those historical basemaps, you can find a ton of them on the @natlibscotmaps website, and you can also explore/search a few of the most detailed ones in this little map comparison tool

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Profile picture
May 12, 2023
Next Monday (15 May) will mark 75 years since the Nakba, when over 500 Palestinian communities were forcibly depopulated during the creation of the Israeli state. To mark the occasion, we have re-launched #PalOpenMaps with a bunch of new features
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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Profile picture
Jan 17, 2023
Want to get #Census2021 data for any area in England and Wales? Wards, parishes, parliamentary constituencies, or perhaps a 1km radius around a local park, school or train station? "Build a custom area profile" is here to help! ons.gov.uk/visualisations…
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Build a custom area profile allows you to:
- find an area on a map + customise it
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Read more on our blog!
digitalblog.ons.gov.uk/2023/01/17/cus…
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You can read more about Build a custom area profile, how to use it, and how it works, in this blog post. This is tool is new and a little experimental. Please do share your feedback! (See survey link at bottom of blog post)
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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Profile picture
Nov 2, 2022
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
There's a brand new @Census2021 release this morning with data covering England and Wales right down to a neighbourhood level. You can explore the data using our brand new #CensusMaps tool, but here's a 🧵 with a few highlights...
ons.gov.uk/census/maps
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MEDIAN (AVERAGE) AGE
The oldest local authority in the country on Census day 2021 was North Norfolk (54 years) and the youngest was Tower Hamlets (30 years). At neighbourhood (MSOA) level, average ages ranged from 20 years to 66 years
ons.gov.uk/census/maps/ch…
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MARRIAGE & CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS
There was a huge variation across England and Wales in the proportion people who were married (incl. civil partnerships). The highest % in Wokingham (55.0%) was almost double the lowest in Lambeth (25.6%)
ons.gov.uk/census/maps/ch…
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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Profile picture
Oct 31, 2022
In case you didn't get the memo, we've got a big @Census2021 data release coming this Wednesday (2 November) at 9:30am. A quick 🧵 on what to expect...
1/5 It's about us. Census 2021
This next data release will include datasets on the topic of "demography and migration". It is the first of nine topic summary data releases, and is the first @Census2021 release with data down to a neighbourhood level (AKA "output area" level) census.gov.uk/census-2021-re…
2/5 These topic summaries will include: demography and migration
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3/5 Age The age of a person on Census Day, 21 March 2021. Age ofLiving arrangements People's living arrangements, by their l
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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Profile picture
May 17, 2021
1/ Today we published this first of two interactive #scrollytelling pieces focused on economic inequality in the UK, based on measures of income and productivity for each local area. Check it out here... ons.gov.uk/visualisations…
2/ As you'd expect, the analysis found notable economic disparities between southern England and the rest of the UK (the blue map shows relative income, the pink shows relative productivity)... But there were also other notable findings
3/ Importantly, the analysis found some interesting patterns once the two economic measures were overlaid as a #bivariate map, including disparities between cities and their surrounding rural areas (the scatter plot top-right explains the colours)
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May 14, 2021
1/ A year ago, @visualizingpal launched #PalestineToday, telling the story of 1,200 historical towns, villages and cities, and highlighting how the #Nakba and the foundation of #Israel in 1948 created the fractured #Palestinian geography that we see today today.visualizingpalestine.org
2/ Looking at the history of the region in this way helps us to put today's events in context. Eg. in "mixed cities" like #Jaffa, #Haifa or #Lydd, where many #Palestinians were forcibly displaced in 1948, and those that remained became an isolated minority today.visualizingpalestine.org/lydda/
3/ In the #GazaStrip, where nearly 70% of the population are refugees originating from towns and villages in what became #Israel, the population of towns and cities like #Gaza, #Rafah and #KhanYounis have increased massively today.visualizingpalestine.org/rafah/
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