Urban Maps

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Historically, those areas and their smaller-dwelling neighbours were the Dublin heartland of Fianna Fáil and, to a lesser extent of popularity, Labour. The stereotype was of the tenement resident rehoused in the suburbs, perhaps even purchasing his house from the Corporation, thanks to Fianna Fáil benevolence. They responded to their social franchisement with gratitude. Maurice Manning quotes a late 1960s survey that put party support in Dublin at 35/30/20/15 (DK/Others) among the middle class, and 37/14/31/18 among the working class. My judgement is that you should move about 10% from Others to Fine Gael to get more realistic figures. But the point is that Fianna Fáil was the most popular party among workers at the time.

And remained so, particularly on the northern working/lower middle-class fringes of Dublin city (this was Haughey country before it became Ahern country), right up to the moment when FF fell into the abyss in 2008. The corresponding areas on the southside (e.g. Crumlin) were never as strong for FF.

[EPG]

Non-Catholic religion in Dublin. Executive summary: Apart from Catholicism, it's mainly due to immigration these days. Traditional Protestant communities are visible but smaller.

Unlike the census in the north of Ireland, the southern census doesn't break down non-Catholic religious adherence at small area level, but this data is now available through the All-Ireland Research Observatory. So it's now possible to distinguish between non-Catholic Christians and non-Christian adherents. The data are slightly flawed, which I'm sure would not be the case if it were an official release; nine small denominations including Protestants, Methodists and Lutherans are counted as "other religion" rather than "other Christian"; people who filled in Atheist or Agnostic instead of ticking the "No religion" box are also counted as "other religion".



In Dublin, if not the rest of the country, "non-Catholic Christian" no longer means the traditional Protestant communities. According to the latest census, non-traditional denominations linked to immigration, like Orthodox and Apostolic/Pentecostal Christianity, are slightly more numerous in the capital region than Church of Ireland adherents and other traditional Protestant sects. That's true for both the true data and the data plotted here. Of course, some immigrants come from Anglican and Presbyterian backgrounds, too.

The map reflects this bifurcation. Dún Laoghaire, the nearby countryside, parts of Howth and the southern city suburbs are still Protestant heartlands - albeit with just over 10% of the population declaring an affinity in some cases. But so are the new suburbs in Blanchardstown, Balbriggan, Lucan, Meakstown. These suburbs (except Lucan) have distinctly large numbers of Black and Black Irish respondents, almost half of whom follow these religions. Orthodoxy is the largest religion in this category apart from CoI/Anglican, but it's harder to locate on the map; probably the city centre and Blanchardstown/Lucan, since these suburbs have large non-Irish populations more generally.



This is a diverse group: 25k Muslims, 6k Hindus, 4k Buddhists, 12k members of small Protestant denominations, 4k non-religious respondents who didn't tick "No religion", and 7k others. The biggest densities are in the recently-built districts with strong non-Irish populations: south Lucan, west Blanchardstown, west Castleknock, north Balbriggan, west Tallaght. In so far as there's a strong Muslim contribution to the map, it's in the south city centre and Clonskeagh in northern Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, two neighbourhoods with mosques and third-level institutions.

In both religious super-groups, the weakest areas are the low-income, very Irish, very Catholic local-authority estates in the north and south-west of Dublin City.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Housing types - by ward this time because this is a wider geographical area - for the whole of the West Midlands metropolitan 'county'.

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And the same for Greater Manchester.

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...and West Yorkshire.

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And for Shrewsbury, but by lower SOA.

[YL]

Surviving back to backs presumably counted as terraced in West Yorks?

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Surviving back to backs presumably counted as terraced in West Yorks?

Yes

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And for Shrewsbury, but by lower SOA.

London New York Paris Shrewsbury

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Well it is home to the first iron-framed building in the world, without which Noo Yawk would look rather different

[GMM]

This is the last map I found interesting, posted simply because it's pretty funny. Spot the commuter rail, DART and Luas lines.

Where did you find the data for this map EPG? I can't seem to find it on the CSO (Central Statistics Office) website.
Also, did you update these maps after the 2016 census? Would be interesting to see how they evolve.
Thanks!

[EPG]

Oh yeah, it's all online in Census 2011/2016 Small Area Population Statistics. You just need to find the fields, do the calculation, and get mapping software. The biggest gains I see in 2016 were in Citywest/Saggart, where they got a Luas extension.

[GMM]

Oh yeah, it's all online in Census 2011/2016 Small Area Population Statistics. You just need to find the fields, do the calculation, and get mapping software. The biggest gains I see in 2016 were in Citywest/Saggart, where they got a Luas extension.

Thanks EPG for your help, I found the data
Sorry for the newbie question: which mapping software did you use/would you recommend?

[EPG]

QGIS because it's free. It is not so easy to learn, especially the print composer to make images, but we all have to start some time.

[YL]

Reviving this thread for some 2021 census maps of Sheffield by ward:

Housing tenure, with social rented, then owned (I combined the with and without mortgage categories) and private rented:

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No qualifications:


Level 4 qualifications and above (i.e. degree level)

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Christianity:


Islam:

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The Census divides people's occupations into nine categories.  Note that these are proportions out of those in work, so students (at least those who don't also have jobs) and the unemployed and retired are excluded.

"Managers, directors and senior officials"


"Professional occupations"


"Associate professional and technical occupations"


"Administrative and secretarial occupations"


"Skilled trades occupations"


"Caring, leisure and other service occupations"


"Sales and customer service occupations"


"Process, plant and machine operatives"


"Elementary occupations"

[YL]

Some vaguely similar maps of Leicester, which has local elections this year which may get some attention.  NB the scales (with one exception) aren't the same as in the Sheffield maps, as the cities are different enough that custom scales for one tend not to work very well for the other.

First, religion:

"No religion"


Islam


Hinduism


Christianity

[YL]

Tenure in Leicester:

Social rented


Owner occupied


Private rented

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No qualifications:


Level 4 qualifications:

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Occupation categories in Leicester.  I've only done four of the categories here: the two most middle class ones and two which are very heavily represented in the city.

"Managers, directors and senior officials":


"Professional occupations"


"Process, plant and machine operatives"


"Elementary occupations"

[YL]

This isn't exactly an "urban" map, though it does contain three (rather different, as will be obvious from the map) places with city status.

Professional occupations in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in the 2021 census:

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Two more occupation categories for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Managers etc.


"Elementary occupations"


It's not surprising that Cambridge and Peterborough look very different, but they do.  Also, Wisbech really stands out in these maps; note that several of those wards were actually unopposed Tory wins in the last Fenland council election.