Population and demographics
Who lives around a place: residents, age groups, people per business and where the gaps are.
A radius or a drive time? Choosing the area around a siteA plain circle is quick and fair for comparisons; a travel time or a road distance follows how people really move. When each one is right, and how to switch between them.Population and demographics · 2 November 2026 · 5 min readFinding where families live, for nurseries, tutoring centres and schoolsChildren by age band show where a nursery, a tutoring centre or a school would find pupils. How to read the 0 to 9 and 10 to 19 counts, set them against rivals, and act.Population and demographics · 2 November 2026 · 4 min readHow to find underserved neighbourhoods, step by stepPut where people live next to where businesses are, and the gaps show. A step-by-step method using residents, counts and distance to the nearest place, with checks.Population and demographics · 2 November 2026 · 4 min readPeople per business: the simplest way to spot an underserved areaDivide the residents of an area by the businesses of one kind that serve it. How to work out people per business, how to read it, and the traps that make it lie.Population and demographics · 2 November 2026 · 5 min readPlanning services for older residents with the over-60 shareWhere older people live, and how many are over 80, decides where home care, pharmacies, clinics and day centres are needed. How to read the figures and plan from them.Population and demographics · 2 November 2026 · 4 min readPopulation data for clinic and pharmacy planningHow health providers use residents and age groups to size a clinic's catchment, place a pharmacy and choose services, and where the figures stop being enough.Population and demographics · 2 November 2026 · 4 min readUsing an area's age profile to choose what a shop, clinic or school offersThe shares of children, working-age adults and over-60s around a site shape the opening hours, services and stock that suit it. How to read an age profile and act on it.Population and demographics · 2 November 2026 · 4 min readWhat street-level demographic data shows, and what it leaves outResidents per small hexagon, men and women, nine age groups: what a population grid tells a business about a street, and why income and spending are not in it.Population and demographics · 2 November 2026 · 5 min readWhy population is mapped in hexagons, and how to read a heat map of peoplePopulation grids use small hexagons instead of districts or squares. What an H3 hexagon is, why it is used, and how to read a heat map of residents without fooling yourself.Population and demographics · 2 November 2026 · 5 min read
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