AONB Communities

At the time of writing the current AONB Management Plan, the calculated resident population of the AONB was given as 33,079.  This was based on a fairly unsophisticated analysis of the 2001 Census.

In 2004/05, the Countryside Agency let a contract to Terra Consult to undertake a more detailed analysis of the socio-economic profiles of the Protected Landscapes Areas (PLAs) in South East England.  A detailed spatial analysis of datasets for demographics, housing, settlements, income, deprivation, migration, services, transport, employment, land use and development was then undertaken for each of the PLAs.  To increase accuracy, the analysis used a mathematical canlulation of weightings reflecting the relationship between these datasets, census wards and post code data.  This was necessary as PLA boundaries cross other administrative areas and rarely is national data gathered purely within the PLA boundaries.  The revised figure of the Isle of Wight AONB resident population is 10,835.

The results for the Isle of Wight AONB are included in the following documents:

• Socio-economic profiles for Protected Landscape Areas in South East England - Terra Consult Executive Summary.  Click here to download pdf.
• State of the Isle of Wight AONB Report.  (Due out shortly)
• Isle of Wight AONB Summary.