1 Jan 2000

OAC used by Camden to profile population

Posted by Daniel Lewis

The London borough of Camden have profiled their local population using OAC. This is a very detailed report which includes mapping and local photographs to illustrate the each groups representation within Camden. Many thanks to Neil Storer for supplying the report.

The report notes that most Camden wards are quite polarised, with one or two dominant subgroups in each ward, but they do vary in their degree of polarization, especially at supergroup level. The extremes are St Pancras and Somers Town ward with 95% of residents living in supergroup 7 output areas and Frognal and Fitzjohns ward with 88% in supergroup 2. Wards where the supergroup populations are almost evenly balanced are Camden Town with Primrose Hill, Holborn and Covent Garden and Highgate. The remaining 13 wards have rather more residents in supergroup 2 or supergroup 7, but always with significant numbers in the other supergroup.

OAC map of Camden

The full report can be downloaded [here] , please be patient though as the pdf is roughly 20 megabytes in size.

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