Good morning everyone.
Thank you very much to all those people who replied so quickly with their
own figures. The results are below. Please let me know if I have got
anything wrong. If you would like to add your figure to the table, I would
be happy to continue collating, and send results to the list.
Best wishes
Viv.
Visits per 1,000 population 2001/02
English Counties
Cambridgeshire 5,284
Derbyshire 4,422. It was based on a one week sample taken
during October - not continuous or machine counting!
Devon 5,124
Essex 7,087
Gloucestershire 4374
Norfolk 5,100 (were 4,800 when Standards started)
Northamptonshire 4,103 based on three counts
Nottinghamshire 4,877
Staffordshire 4,705
Surrey 5,445
Warwickshire 6,090 (using the mid-2000 population figure)
Worcestershire 5,207 (est)
Unitary Authorities
Birmingham 4091
Leicester 5,600
North East Lincolnshire 5,167
Stoke 2,990
Metropolitan Districts
Trafford 5,297
Doncaster 4,838
Inner London
Southwark 7,696
Wales
Powys 3,844 - this was based on the standard October week
survey. This year we will have figures based on information from electronic
visitor counters - so who knows what it will look like!
Australia
Moreland, Melbourne 6,056 - With a population of 137,677. Nearly 40% of
our citizens speak a language other than English at home.
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