Where do atheists live? Maps that show the UK's most 'godless' cities

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Brighton A sea of blue means at least 39.5% of residents specified 'no religion' across virtually all of the city in the 2011 census. Source: DataShine

Thursday 3 July 2014 06.14 EDT
Nick Mead
theguardian.com

DataShine, a new census data visualisation tool from Oliver O'Brien at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, shows 'no religion' hotspots in Brighton, Bristol and Norwich; while Bradford and Leeds are clearly split and Liverpool keeps the faith. Dark blue areas indicate at least 39.5% there said they had no religion. Bright red means fewer than 10% gave that answer



Bristol: Small pockets of red in the north-east indicate fewer than 10% of residents in those areas said they had no religion. Source: DataShine

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/datablog/gallery/2014/jul/03/where-atheists-live-maps-uk-godless-cities-religion-census-data-viz

The cities noted are Brighton, Bristol, Norwich, Nottingham, Southampton, Hull, Cardiff, York, Newcastle, Bradfrd and Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, Leicester, London south, London north, Birminham, and Liverpool. Interactive maps for each.

[SamKnause]

1. Seaman, Ohio; The United States

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2. Tha must be the influence of Kentucky.

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4. Brighton is a very cool place.

Also the LGBT centre of the country.

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5. I didn't know that.

That's on the Channel isn't it?

There's a Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, New York but it's the center of the Russian Mob.

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6. Yep, on the Channel. Fabulous place.

Two of our boys are at universities there.

http://www.visitbrighton.com/gay-brighton/brighton-pride

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8. I see they're doing a centanary on WWI now.

http://www.visitbrighton.com/whats-on/refusing-to-kill-conscientious-objectors-of-the-first-world-war-p1070711

Fascinating place.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Also, our only Green MP, Caroline Lucas, is from there (Brighton Pavilion)