Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales
Helsby and the Greater Manchester Urban Area
Details
The small town of Helsby, which lies between Chester and Runcorn and is a free standing urban area, has been inadvertently included as a sub-division of the Greater Manchester urban area. This was the result of a coding error made at a late stage in the preparation of the Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales report, detected only as the report went to press and the supplementary CD was in production. The Key Statistics for Helsby, which had 4,701 residents and 1,990 households in 2001, remain in the tables with those of other sub-divisions of the Greater Manchester urban area on the CD and in the printed report for 'the North'. They are not shown separately in the tables in the printed report as Helsby falls below the threshold for inclusion. The counts for Helsby are included in the figures for the Greater Manchester urban area as a whole which has a population of some 2.24 million. This has only a slight effect on the figures for Greater Manchester, but the counts for Helsby may be subtracted from those for Greater Manchester if required. The figures for Helsby are included correctly in the summary tables for the urban part of the Vale Royal local authority available HERE.
Urban areas in Wales and the South West
Details
A small number of urban areas have been transposed from the South West to Wales, and vice versa, in the tables included on the CD accompanying the Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales report.
The urban areas Camelford, Crossways, Feniton, Marldon, Newton Poppleford, Ramsbury, Roche, Starcross, Tatworth, The Common, Uffculme, and Wickwar, which are listed under Wales, fall entirely within England and should have been listed under South West. In addition, Hay on Wye and Chepstow Urban Area fall partly in England, and, as there is no information on Welsh language skills for these parts, each of the two areas as a whole should have been listed under South West. Marshfield is listed under South West but should appear under Wales. Results for these areas can be found on the CD by using the Search facility.
Results on Welsh language skills, and identification as Welsh, for areas incorrectly listed on the CD under Wales should be disregarded. Results for these topics for Marshfield are provided below.
Table KS06 Ethnic group and identification as Welsh
All people
People identifying themselves as Welsh
K13600 Marshfield
2,637
219
Table KS25 Knowledge of Welsh
All people aged 3 and over
Under- stands spoken Welsh only
Speaks but does not read or write Welsh
Speaks and reads but does not write Welsh
Speaks, reads and writes Welsh
Other combi- nation of skills
No know- ledge of Welsh
K13600 Marsh- field
2,526
54
16
11
224
45
2,176
This error was detected after the production of the CDs, but in time for the correct information to appear in the printed volume for the South West and Wales, and in the tables on urban areas by size and on hectares and density available separately HERE.
KS24 Migration
Details
The table provided in the printed reports and on the SuperTABLE and CSV CDs contains incorrect counts of 'All people: who moved out of the area' for 103 areas. The table also contains incorrect counts for 'All people in ethnic groups other than white: who moved out of the area' for 84 of these 103 areas.
Comments
The correct counts for the areas affected are listed HERE, and a full corrected version of this table is available as an Excel file from Census Customer Services.
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