19/01/2013

Who's moving to Ceredigion?

The recently-released census figures showed how the population of Ceredigion is changing, and there has been much comment about the effect of this. 

So who is moving here, or rather, where have they come from?   This page on the Office of National Statistics website (pointed out by the improbably named but excellent Oggy Bloggy Ogwr blog) gives a tool for finding out, albeit slightly delayed. 

In the year ending June 2011, 5,600 people moved into Ceredigion and 5,500 moved out. Of course, with two Universities in the county, a great many of those in both directions will be students. Anyway, below are the top movers into Ceredigion from Wales and England by local authority area for that year. The figures seem to be rounded to the nearest ten.

560 - Carmarthenshire
230 - Pembrokeshire
200 - Cardiff
160 - Powys
130 - Shropshire
110 - Gwynedd
          Swansea
100 - Birmingham
80 - Rhondda
70 - Bridgend
        Telford 
        Wrexham 
60 - Caerffili
        Dudley
        Flintshire
        Neath 
        Wiltshire 
50 - Bristol 
       Conwy 
       Herefordshire 
       Newport 
       Vale of Glamorgan 
       Wolverhampton 
       Ynys Mon 

Lower down the scale, those moving here are remarkably evenly spread through all corners of Wales and England. The tool does not record people moving in from elsewhere.

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