Swindon

Swindon is a large town of Wiltshire, England, located in the South West of the United Kingdom (between Bristol and London). Swindon lies on the M4 Corridor — Sunrise Strip — part of the UK. The town is easily accessible from either junction 15 or 16 of the M4 motorway, or by rail (Swindon Station). With a population of 180,000, Swindon is often cited as a "boom town" and new housing continues to be built. It is one of the fastest growing towns in the UK (along with Milton Keynes) and has a very low unemployment rate. It is in the borough of Swindon, which has been a unitary authority since 1998.

Demographics

As of the census of 2001 http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/00HX-A.asp#housing, there are 180,051 people and 75,154 occupied houses in the Swindon Unitary Authority. The average household size is 2.38 people. The population density is 780/km² (2020.19/mi²). 20.96% of the population are 0 to 15 years old, 72.80% are 16 to 74 years old, and the remaining 6.24% are 75 years old or over. For every 100 females there are 98.97 males.

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The ethnic makeup of the town is 95.2% European, 1.3% Indian, and 3.5% other. Of the population, 92.4% were born in the UK, 2.7% in the EU, and 4.9% elsewhere in the world.

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Swindon is considered to be an almost exact microcosm of the whole United Kingdom in its demographic makeup, to the extent that it has often been used for market research purposes and trials of new products and services. One example was the ill-fated Mondex electronic money.

Related Topics:
United Kingdom - Mondex

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