Full neighbourhood profile

Often, many of the people who live in this sort of postcode will be large families and single parents with many children. These are known as type 49 in the ACORN classification and 1.33% of the UK’s population live in this type.

Neighbourhoods fitting this profile are found in most major urban centres including Belfast, Londonderry, Motherwell, Falkirk, Newport, Ipswich and Walsall. Here is an overview of the likely preferences and features of your neighbourhood:

These are some of the poorest young families in the country.

They have exceptionally high numbers of children and a very young age profile. The level of single parents is three times the national average.

Housing is mainly three bedroom terraces, or sometimes semis, rented from the council. For the larger families, this means some overcrowding.

Unemployment is very high with a significant number of young people never having worked. With many single parents not working, the number of wage earners is low and so, inevitably, are incomes. A number of households are in debt.

People have to be careful shoppers. Clothes come from catalogues, street markets or supermarkets. Like other younger people, what spare money they do have is spent on going out to pubs, cinema and nightclubs. Otherwise, they spend their time at home watching TV.

This is a description of the type of neighbourhood to which this postcode has been matched, it is not a description of the postcode. The overview describes characteristics frequently found in these neighbourhoods. Since most postcodes include a mix of people we don’t expect everyone there will fit the description perfectly. Learn more.

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