UK travel flows (Wards) online
Travel to work data from the 2001 Census, which was previously only available on DVD and required specialist software to use, can now be viewed and downloaded free of charge from the Nomis website.
Issue date: 18 June 2008
Type: Statement
The data are provided in tables that show daily flows of workers from residence to place of work for all local authorities and wards in Great Britain, and parliamentary constituencies and wards in Northern Ireland. They also include breakdowns of the characteristics of the people in the flows.
The tables are created from the travel component of the migration and travel dataset, Origin-Destination Statistics. Their inclusion on the Nomis website enables easier and greater access to 2001 Census travel data for the specialist and more general user alike.
CommuterView
Users of travel data will also be interested to know that the ONS Data Visualisation Centre and the ONS Neighbourhood Statistics Service have recently launched CommuterView, an innovative product available on DVD. CommuterView takes Census data and enables users to create interactive maps showing flows of commuters within Super Output Areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Data Zones or Intermediate Zones in Scotland.
Copies of the DVD are available by emailing better.info@ons.gsi.gov.uk.
