New Where The Rich Live

The Daily Telegraph has released a map showing the average weekly salary across the UK. The Where the Highest Earners Live map uses novel information from the Office for National Statistics.

You tin click on the map or motility into an address to detect out the average weekly salary for whatsoever expanse inwards the U.K. (excluding Northern Ireland). The UK's highest earners all alive London, inwards Wandsworth, Westminster, too Richmond upon Thames. The lowest weekly earners alive inwards West Somerset.

The Telegraph has too released a map, using the same ONS data, which shows where the richest people alive inwards each local potency area. The Richest Places inwards England too Wales allows yous to meet where the highest earners are concentrated inwards each area.

Not that The Telegraph is obsessed alongside wealth or anything precisely the map does non exhibit where the poorest alive inwards each local authority. In fact The Telegraph claim that the "map gives an indication of the places almost probable to hold out striking difficult past times a proposed mansion tax". This is of degree completely erroneous too a blatant endeavor past times the paper to try too pigment a misleading movie of how many people would hold out affected past times the proposed policy.

For representative inwards London the map shows a large percent of Waltham Forest inwards red. This would atomic number 82 yous to hold off that the proposed mansion revenue enhancement would behaviour upon a large position out of people living inwards this local authority. In fact the proposed revenue enhancement would behaviour upon no-one inwards the borough. This is of degree truthful of almost of the crimson areas shaded on the map.

Diamond Geezer has created a oestrus map of the position out of people who would hold out affected past times the mansion revenue enhancement inwards London. Using information from the concluding census he establish that inwards London that less than 3% volition hold out affected past times the tax. When yous accept into concern human relationship that the highest earners alive inwards London yous tin assume that this figure is much lower exterior of London.