Editing Talk:Milton Keynes (section)

== Demographic data ==

This is to explain my reversion of the good-faith edit by [[User:BritishSikh]].

It is difficult to do demographic analysis for MK because of some very sloppy [[wikt:toponymy|toponymy]] in the ONS. As they (rather feebly) explain at [https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/miltonkeynesandthecensus Milton Keynes and the Census] (an FoI response), for the 2011 census reports, they subdivided the MK urban area (BUA) into four Built-up SubAreas (BUSAs): Bletchley, "Milton Keynes" (''sic''!, actually about three-quarters of MK), Newport Pagnell and Woburn Sands. Ugly, but at least they produced figures for the overall BUA.

For the 2021 census, they declared that BUSAs are now BUAs and that the old BUAs will be "[[wikt:agglomeration|agglomeration]]s"{{snd}} only they haven't released these agglomerations yet, let alone given any data for them.

The essence of this is that the report at https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/customprofiles/build/#E6300385 , although they call it the "Milton Keynes Built-up Area", it is not MK as everybody understands it but only at most three-quarters of it. 

Thus if anyone ''really'' wants to report the demographics of the MK urban area, they will need to extract and sum the reports for Bletchley, "Milton Keynes" (''sic'', actually about three-quarters of MK), Newport Pagnell and Woburn Sands. Or at least I think that is it since I have no idea where they have filed the south-east expansion areas like Eagle Farm. There is a grave danger of [[wp:SYNTH]] violation. [[User:JMF|𝕁𝕄𝔽]] ([[User talk:JMF|talk]]) 18:14, 4 July 2024 (UTC)