please empty your brain below
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You may also enjoy playing with the interactive population pyramids here: [LINK]
diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.07.18 - 1:00 a.m. | #
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No wonder you don't realise how common your age is. It's apparently not the case in your neighbourhood, which seems considerably younger.
I wonder if the oddity in Barking and Dagenham is because of a possible abundance of young immigrant families?
It's natural that university towns have their largest age group being university goers.
My age group is the most abundant in two London boroughs and one just outside it.
Patrickov | 03.07.18 - 3:33 a.m. | #
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I'm also the mode for my borough. That isn't something I can often say.
martin | 03.07.18 - 6:28 a.m. | #
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At 73 everybody looks younger.
When ever I visit London I feel really old.
YDU | 03.07.18 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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At home, on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, I still feel young, now I see it's official, if only comparatively. About 30 years ago, the local paper, the EDP, had an article saying my village had the highest proportion of pensioners in Norfolk. I could see the reason; there were a lot of council houses built after the war and young people moved in, brought up their families, stayed and were by then pension age. Over the next decade or two, there was a big change - but now all we 30-year-olds are at or near pension age ourselves.
Z | Homepage | 03.07.18 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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And thank you for the link - absolutely fascinating.
Z | Homepage | 03.07.18 - 9:51 a.m. | #
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53 year-olds: the progeny of mods and rockers. Hmm. Doesn't quite roll off the tongue like baby boomers or millennials.
milliem | 03.07.18 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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Most areas have a bump at 71, i.e. those born in 1946/47 - the postwar baby peak.
It used to be a lot more pronounced. But only in peripheral 'retirement counties' does 71 still outnumber every other age group.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.07.18 - 12:10 p.m. | #
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that many!...i bet most of them are grumpy!
Grumpy Anon | 03.07.18 - 5:28 p.m. | #
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Those pyramids suggest there was a marked dip in the birthrate from the early 1990s to a minimum in 2003 (15 year olds), but I haven't noticed a National Teenager Shortage.
(The rate has been declining again since 2012)
timbo again | Homepage | 03.07.18 - 6:32 p.m. | #
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Fascinating, being 76 and living in B&D I know they have had to almost double the number of young school places over the past few years, but “2” does seem a bit odd.
Ray | 03.07.18 - 7:51 p.m. | #
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If you work in university admissions, that slump in teenagers is significant.
Sarah | Homepage | 03.07.18 - 9:28 p.m. | #
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@Ray Who could forget the Great Barking Condom Shortage of 2015?
LRC | 03.07.18 - 9:43 p.m. | #
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they say that a falling birth rate is a good leading indicator for an economic slump
ADS | Homepage | 04.07.18 - 11:55 a.m. | #
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While on London Underground's "Graffiti Task Force" (no jokes please) in the mid-1990s, I made some demographic studies to see when the next waves of graffiti might start. It was then kicking in big-time around school leaving age, and tapering off as 'writers' reached their later 20s.
'We' predicted take-up again for 2005 and 2015, based on birth rates projected against school leaving age, Neither right nor wrong as the motivation for graffiti changed, as well as the age groups.
There's big graffiti surges now, not just in London, all with sociology triggers (the 'theory of society' being constantly disproved for one, the lack of employment and denial of self-worth for another two), and the changing age range of writers - they're starting earlier (from about 11) and carrying on into their 30s.
So much of society is now standardised that graffiti is one of the few affordable (especially if the spray cans are nicked) ways to demonstrate an individuality - "seeing my name" is still a key motivation because so few other viable opportunities are felt to exist.
Looking at a wider age profile gives hints where the next big graffiti surges will come from!
Joel | 05.07.18 - 1:02 p.m. | #
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