Map of car ownership levels by ward

[LeslieB]

If you like statistics (yes there are some of us out there )and are interested in transport take a look at Merge of Car availability by ward and Census 2011 England and Wales Electoral Wards - Google Fusion Tables

It's a map of every ward in England and Wales showing the levels of car ownership. Sorry no data for Scotland and NI on there, but it's still worth a look

 

[Pickman's model]

Are you allowed to post on threads other than the immigration one you started?

 

[LeslieB]

Are you allowed to post on threads other than the immigration one you started?

Again, mate, if you've got a problem with me, speak to the mods. But quit disrupting my threads.

 

[bimble]

My ward according to official stats, 70% of us have no car. It turned out (in recent controversial road closure debacle) that this wasn't exactly true: That map / the official stats are more a measure more of where people register / insure their vehicles not where they keep them?

 

[Pickman's model]

Again, mate, if you've got a problem with me, speak to the mods. But quit disrupting my threads.

Could you summarise the changes between 2001 and 2011?

 

[keybored]

Why no data for the City of London?

 

[LeslieB]

My ward according to official stats, 70% of us have no car. It turned out (in recent controversial road closure debacle) that this wasn't exactly true: That map / the official stats are more a measure more of where people register / insure their vehicles not where they keep them?

Yes, I would expect that to be the case. I don't think there is any other way to measure it. But for example registering a car at your parents house in the Cotswolds when you live in Bethnal Green for lower insurance is fronting and therefore illegal. That doesn't mean people don't do it, of course!

 

[LeslieB]

Why no data for the City of London?

Good question. I don't think they have a local council in the way the rest of the UK does. According to Wiki the resident population is only 7,300 anyway, most of whom probably don't have a car.

 

[bi0boy]

My ward according to official stats, 70% of us have no car. It turned out (in recent controversial road closure debacle) that this wasn't exactly true: That map / the official stats are more a measure more of where people register / insure their vehicles not where they keep them?

It's derived from the census question "in total, how many cars or vans are owned, or available for use, by members of this household?"

 

[keybored]

I don't think they have a local council in the way the rest of the UK does

Do councils keep data on car ownership? I thought it would more likely come from DVLA or insurers.

 

[LeslieB]

Do councils keep data on car ownership? I thought it would more likely come from DVLA or insurers.

Like bioboy says, it comes from the 2011 census, with the data broken down to ward level. I don't think the city of London is broken down into wards.

Anyway the figures for the City of London as a whole are 4385 households, 3043 of which have no car.

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[weltweit]

Fascinating stats. Where I have lived there are typically 1.5 - 1.7 cars per household and less than 15% og households without a car. Sticks I live in the sticks ... you need a vehicle.

 

[bi0boy]

Fascinating stats. Where I have lived there are typically 1.5 - 1.7 cars per household and less than 15% og households without a car. Sticks I live in the sticks ... you need a vehicle.

except if you're in the Welsh valleys it seems

 

[weltweit]

except if you're in the Welsh valleys it seems

Hmm Teorchy 30% of households no car it seems you are right.

 

[kebabking]

very surprised to see that Tenbury Wells, and Bromyard (perhaps more so Bromyard..) have carless households in the 15-18% range. both are kind of self-sufficient small towns, if somewhat out of the metropolis though i suppose the elderly probably make up the overwhelming number of that...

the surprising one was Clun, Shropshire, in which some 7% of households don't have a car. to describe Clun as fucking-miles-from-anywhere would be an understatement. two pubs (very nice pubs actually...) a nisa-type store, a butcher, and, err... lots and lots of countryside for many miles in any direction. to live in Clun sans car would be to go nowhere but on foot - and its a fucking long way to the Tescos in Newtown..

 

[kebabking]

Rhydfelen, near Pontypridd, has a 43% no car in household figure - surprising that, its by no means the poorest, most deprived area of the old mining areas, and its not an easy walk into town (being mostly vertical..). some of my Grandads cousins lived there and made fantastic egg and chips. one went to school with Tom Jones, though subsequently Tom Jones got a lot younger than him. all in the cemetary on the hill now though, not been there in years...

 

[Plumdaff]

Hmm Teorchy 30% of households no car it seems you are right.

Gurnos in Merthyr 49%. It's a long way on the bus to most places from Merthyr. . Most of the rest of the Valleys running at about a third of people.

Here in Cardiff is the poorer places on the outskirts that have the highest numbers without (Llanrumney and Ely, 43% and 40%). I'll discount Cathays in the city centre as that'll be a lot of students skewing the numbers.

 

[editor]

Are you allowed to post on threads other than the immigration one you started?

Please don't pointlessly disrupt threads in this manner. This is a thread about car ownership, not an individual's posting rights. Thank you.

 

[Dogsauce]

45% with no car in my district, I was one of them at the time of the survey but I'm not now. There's a few high rises full of pensioners, and a lot of people in dense terraced housing that won't be able to afford running a car. Cynics might say it's 45% because that many have had their car stolen.

 

[rubbershoes]

5% with no car

We're rural with no decent bus service

I guess having a tractor would count as car ownership

 

[LeslieB]

I guess having a tractor would count as car ownership

I'm not sure on that, actually. But ultimately it was self reported anyway, so the person filling in the census return would decide whether or not it counted as a car.

Are there significant numbers of households with tractors but no car?

 

[baldrick]

Interesting. 50% with no car which sounds realistic given its generally poor and close to the city.

 

[toblerone3]

79% of households without access to a car in my ward! (Kings Cross). Apart from Bloomsbury and Queenhithe in the City of London (both 80%) its the most car-free ward in the country.

Its a combination of a high density housing, stringent parking controls and the best public transport in the country.