Philobiblon

I’ve visited the site before, but A Vision of Britain, which collects data by region for the past couple of hundred years, has come along in leaps and bounds. I’ve just been looking at the London borough of Camden.

Some facts, some surprising:
* in 1951 45 per cent of households didn’t have their own WC

* Population density was highest in 1900, dipped to its lowest this century in about 1980, and then started to rise again.

* In 2001 more than 45 per cent of Camden residents (percentage of adults presumpably) had university degrees (which must I suspect be among the highest in the country).

You can do the same calculations for any area of the UK on the site.