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Annie Gouk & Kate Wilson

Find out which parts of Bristol are most popular with different age groups

Westbury-on-Trym has the highest proportion of people aged 93 or over out of any neighbourhood in Bristol while more than half of the population of part of Clifton near Whiteladies Road is made up of Millennials.

The Office for National Statistics has published data which shows the generational makeup of every part of the UK, down to neighbourhood level.

It has revealed some interesting detail about which parts of Bristol are more popular with different age groups, with concentrations of certain generations seemingly flocking to particular pockets of the county.

What are the age groups?

The Greatest Generation - born between 1901 and 1927

The Silent Generation - born between 1928 and 1945

Baby Boomers - born between 1946 and 1964

Gen X - born between 1965 and 1980

Millennials (also known as Gen Y) - born between 1981 and 1996

Gen Z (or Zoomers) - born between 1997 and 2012

Gen Alpha - born between 2013 and 2025

So who lives where?

You can see the makeup of your own neighbourhood by entering your postcode into our interactive widget below.

The Greatest Generation includes anyone aged between 93 and 119 and it's in Westbury-on-Trym that you'll find the highest proportion of the city's oldest residents.

The ONS breaks down communities to specific areas, each with a population of around 7,200, so most of Westbury-on-Trym falls into one such area.

Around four per cent of all residents living in the area are part of that generation.

It may come as no surprise that the part of Clifton between Whiteladies Road and Pembroke Road has more millennials than any other part of the city, with Gen Y making up 52 per cent of residents.

Meanwhile the next neighbourhood north, Stoke Bishop and Sneyd Park, has the highest proportion of Zoomers in the city - at 34 per cent.

The people who live between St Pauls and St Philip’s Marsh has the highest proportion of Gen Alphas - 13 per cent - meanwhile Knowle has more Gen Xers than anywhere else in Bristol - with 23 per cent -

And the neighbourhood which straddles between Whitchurch and Hartcliffe - between Ridgeway Lane and Longway Avenue - is made up of more than a quarter of Boomers (26 per cent) but also has the highest proportion of the Silent Generation, which is 13 per cent.

The national picture

Nationally, there is an even mix of Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials across the country - with each of the three generations making up 21% of the population.

In comparison, Gen Z, or Zoomers, make up 19% of the population, Gen Alpha 8%, and The Silent Generation 8%.

Meanwhile, the Greatest Generation make up just 1% of people in the UK.

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