The Vale of the White Horse

Which 3 of these towns and cities are in the Vale of the White Horse?

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14% 14% 14% 14%14%14%14%1. Didcot

2. Swindon

3. Faringdon

4. Oxford

5. Abingdon

6. Witney

7. Wantage

A Map of the Vale

Faringdon, Wantage and Abingdon are the three market towns in the Vale. Botley, on the West of Oxford is also included.

A census is a count of the population. We have one in the UK every ten years to find out more about who we are as a nation. When will the

next one be?

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33% 33%33%

1. 4th April, 2012

2. 27th March, 2011

3. 5th November, 2013

The last census in the UK was in 2001. The total

number of people in the Vale was 115,627. How

many people were aged 75 and over?

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33% 33%33%1. 21,256

2. 8,377

3. 4,209

There were 45,759 households in the Vale. What

percentage had no cars or vans?

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33% 33%33%

1. 1.83%

2. 13.83%

3. 6.83%

What percentage of people aged 16 and over were

married?

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33% 33%33%

1. 50.37%

2. 40.37%

3. 30.37%

Under religion, about 75% said that they were

Christian. What was the next biggest group?

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33% 33%33%1. Muslim

2. Jewish

3. No religion

About 60,000 people in the Vale were in

employment. About 36,000 went to work by car or

van. How many cycled to work?

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33% 33%33%1. 10,031

2. 4,031

3. 1,031

Vale of the White Horse

• How different do you think these figures would be in your own country?

• How much do you think they will have changed in the next census?

To find out more:

• www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk

• http://www.ons.gov.uk/census/index.html

• The current government is thinking of

stopping the census because it is very

expensive to do: in 2001 it cost the

government £254 million. What do you

think?