This is an excerpt from Wikipedia (click here) on where UK population is found. In relation, here is a general article (click here) on UK demography. I use the Wikipedia statistics to facilitate looking at other nations for comparison--which is not as simple from national sites.
What appears obvious in these maps?
I see what is obvious to most British people. London dominates in density and scale. Birmingham and Manchester are 2nd cities and there is a line of population running up the M1 corridor.
Bristol is a microcenter of the West. Glasgow/Edinburgh are an important corridor. Another micro corridor exists between Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne. Northern Ireland is a pool around Belfast. Wales is an echo of Bristol using the Bristol Channel to similar benefits--perhaps historically as well as currently.
Maps showing change maps are more interesting (as is typical). Click here.
The data from the Guardian based maps are a bit old but trends are not changing too dramatically for them to remain relevant. You have to click on the top of the map to get to (this page) where you can click on the data change parameters which are available in "pull down" just under the photo of Simon Rogers.
I particularly note the percentage of retired persons pull-down. Rural Britain is old and BREXIT focused. Urban Britain is largely growing in population, much younger, and much more a focus of immigrants.
There is a clear economic corridor running roughly up the M1 where most of the energy of the UK is focused. The maximum distance from this corridor in all directions is where the greatest number of dependents is found.
This appears to be an unhealthy and even unnatural distribution. It is a segmented populated bound to be a political odds with itself.
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