ONS has updated the Rural Urban Classification for England & Wales, shaping how we define urban & rural areas. Key changes include ‘Relative access’ replacing ‘Sparsity’ & improved geospatial data. See what this means for funding & policy:
polimapper.co.uk/2025/04/unde...

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Rural Urban Classification (2021) for areas in England and Wales geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/search?q=RUC21 new from ONS

Datasets for Output Areas, LSOAs, MSOAs, and local authority districts, plus web maps and user guide.

More info www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/...

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📈📉We've just published a nifty new #ONS tool that allows you to see how different factors affect population projections! Adjust life expectancy, fertility rate and net migration to see how they affect estimates...
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Some really interesting stats out this morning from the ONS on hybrid working. Hybrid and home working persisting post-pandemic, but with a lot of variation across professions...
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...

Experimenting with localised "robo-journalism" and #scrolltelling formats was one of my early highlights with the ONS. This piece really exemplified what we were trying to achieve at the time, and set for format for later work...
www.ons.gov.uk/visualisatio...
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Educational attainment in England for this week's #TidyTuesday. Idea and text from @ONS's interactive chart at www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...

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