Parliamentary constituency data tool – see how your constituency measures up
Five weeks to go until the general election, Centre for Cities launches a data tool that puts constituencies in context to better understand their economic performance.
Five weeks to go until the general election, Centre for Cities launches a data tool that puts constituencies in context to better understand their economic performance.
The coming weeks will see reporting from constituencies across the country to gauge voters’ views on the national parties and to report on the key issues within those constituencies. But looking at these issues – such as struggling high streets, lack of ‘good’ jobs and poor public transport – in the context of the national average alone isn’t that insightful, particularly when thinking about how to address them and what it is that policy is able to achieve.
This is because different places play different roles in the national economy, and so they shouldn’t be expected to perform equally on every measure. This means that data for any given constituency must be looked at in the context of the role it plays.
To account for this Centre for Cities has launched a new data tool for the election that looks at every constituency in England and Wales through the lens of economic geography, categorising each one as either urban, hinterland or deep rural. In doing so it allows you to compare its performance on a range of indicators with that of constituencies with similar characteristics, as well as the England and Wales average.
As the image below shows, it has constituency data on incomes, jobs, commuting, housing, deprivation, skills and health. You can select the data for your constituency here.
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