@robgrantuk

I work on Census 2021 and Explore Subnational Statistics at @ONS I make maps on Etsy and tell stories with maps on my Substack.

 London, England
landmarkatlas.substack.com/
Joined January 2011
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Rob Fry@fryford30 Oct 2025
Won't lie - it has been a bit of a lifelong dream to work on the release of the Indices of Deprivation interactive offer... ...very proud of what the team has delivered today. Check it out - deprivation.communities.gov.…
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In my lifetime the Second World War has begun to pass out of living memory. When I first studied WW2 "careless talk costs lives" posters at school in the 1990s VE Day was 50 odd years before. A long time but well within living memory.
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
@ONS3 Sep 2025
We've published annual mid-year population estimates for people aged 90 years and over by sex and single year of age to 105 years and over in England and Wales. The latest data covers 2002 to 2024. Take a look at the datasets ➡️ ons.gov.uk/releases/estimate…
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Last year there were 563,610 people aged in their nineties or over in England and Wales. These people were at least around 9-10 years old in 1945 and will be among the last to remember it all.
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Really pleased to be part of the team behind this:
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
@ONS2 May 2025
Our award-winning Explore local statistics service is celebrating its 1st birthday 🎂 The service enables you to: 👀 find local stats in a single place 📊 visualise data for a specific area 🔎 download the data 🖥️ embed the charts and visualisations Find out more 👇

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The Litany of the Saints at the Funeral of His Holiness Pope Francis
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May he rest in peace.
Colm Flynn
@colmflynnire21 Apr 2025
BREAKING NEWS: Pope Francis has died at the age of 88. He passed away at 7:35am, the morning after Easter Sunday.
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Happy Easter! Alleluia, He is risen! 🙏🤍
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One year on. Not always easy, but always worth it. Happy, happy Easter!
Rob Grant@robgrantuk2 Apr 2024
I became a Catholic at the Easter Vigil on Saturday night. Deo gratias!
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Happy Solemnity of the Annunciation!
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Today, March 19: the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of Mary and earthly father of Jesus,
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Use our new UK population projection explorer to adjust factors such as life expectancy, average children per woman and net migration to see what impact each could have on the future population 🔎ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa…
UK population projection explorer Adjust life expectancy, average children per woman and net migration to see what impact each could have on the future population.

ALT UK population projection explorer Adjust life expectancy, average children per woman and net migration to see what impact each could have on the future population.

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The Explore Subnational Statistics team at @ONS for their work “Launching Explore Local Statistics (ELS) Beta service”! ⭐️ The new service simplifies local data access, helping policymakers with visualized, standardized info on health, education, and economy 🏆 #AiGAwards #WINNER
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We’ve published analysis looking at time spent in short-term lets in the UK, using aggregated data from 3 large online collaborative economy platforms: @Airbnb @Bookingcom @ExpediaGroup We are able to offer analysis of a twelve-month period. ➡ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa…
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Meanwhile, Salford University's Peel Building, built 100 years earlier in 1896, is still going strong.
BBC Manchester
@BBCRadioManc11 Nov 2024
Britain's 'best new building of 1996' to be demolished bbc.in/3AD8pos

Salford: Britain's 'best new building of 1996' to be demolished

Salford University's award-winning Centenary Building has been vacant for the past eight years.

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Rob Grant retweeted
AFP News Agency
@AFP8 Nov 2024
The bells of Notre Dame in Paris rang out together on Friday for the first time since a 2019 fire that devastated the historic cathedral, AFP reporters said. u.afp.com/5HUe
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Large parts of inner London are at or close to a fertility rate of 1 child per woman
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
@ONS28 Oct 2024
Replying to @ONS
Total fertility rate in England and Wales dropped 1.44 children per woman in 2023, the lowest value since records began in 1938.
Line chart showing total fertility rate (TFR) at lowest value ever recorded.

ALT Line chart showing total fertility rate (TFR) at lowest value ever recorded.

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Schools are closing as a result: landmarkatlas.substack.com/p…
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Lidar helps find lost Mayan city: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmz…

Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident

The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

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Big rise in cocaine poisonings registered in 2023. Chart below shows the dramatic rise. Opiates (not shown in chart) still the most common mention, accounting for nearly half of drug poisonings. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa…
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
@ONS23 Oct 2024
5,448 deaths related to drug poisoning were registered in 2023 in England and Wales (93 deaths per million people). This is 11% higher than in 2022 (4,907 deaths, 84.4 deaths per million) and the highest number since records began in 1993. Read more➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa…
Registered deaths related to drugs poisoning were 11% higher in 2023 In England and Wales compared with 2022 and the highest since records began in 1993. Bar chart showing 1993 (2178), 2022 (4,907), 2023 (5448)

ALT Registered deaths related to drugs poisoning were 11% higher in 2023 In England and Wales compared with 2022 and the highest since records began in 1993. Bar chart showing 1993 (2178), 2022 (4,907), 2023 (5448)

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