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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Where The Rich Live


The Daily Telegraph has released a map showing the average weekly salary across the UK. The Where the Highest Earners Live map uses novel information from the Office for National Statistics.

You tin click on the map or piece of occupation inwards an address to notice out the average weekly salary for whatever expanse inwards the UK (excluding Northern Ireland). The UK's highest earners all alive London, inwards Wandsworth, Westminster, too Richmond upon Thames. The lowest weekly earners alive inwards West Somerset.

The Telegraph has too released a map, using the same ONS data, which shows where the richest people alive inwards each local ascendency area. The Richest Places inwards England too Wales allows y'all to encounter where the highest earners are concentrated inwards each area.

Not that The Telegraph is obsessed amongst wealth or anything only the map does non demonstrate where the poorest alive inwards each local authority. In fact The Telegraph claim that the "map gives an indication of the places some probable to live on hitting difficult yesteryear a proposed mansion tax". This is of shape completely erroneous too a blatant travail yesteryear the paper to examine too pigment a misleading painting demonstrate of how many people would live on affected yesteryear the proposed policy.

For event inwards London the map shows a large per centum of Waltham Forest inwards red. This would Pb y'all to human face that the proposed mansion taxation would impact a large let on of people living inwards this local authority. In fact the proposed taxation would impact no-one inwards the borough. This is of shape truthful of some of the cherry-red areas shaded on the map.

Diamond Geezer has created a rut map of the let on of people who would live on affected yesteryear the mansion taxation inwards London. Using information from the final census he constitute that inwards London that less than 3% volition live on affected yesteryear the tax. When y'all postulate maintain into trouble organization human relationship that the highest earners alive inwards London y'all tin assume that this figure is much lower exterior of London.