Trawling the National Statistics website for something completely different (what an exciting life I lead, I know) I come across this: Indicators of neighbourliness by age, 2000/01.
"The number of times people speak to their neighbours, and the number of people they know within their area, give some indication of 'neighbourliness'. The proportion of people who say that they know many people in their neighbourhood increases with age. Almost three fifths of those aged 70 and over in Great Britain in 2000/01 said that they knew many people in their neighbourhood, compared with just over a third of those aged between 16 and 29."There's something slightly charming about someone, somewhere, compiling all these facts and figures on how we live...
