Comments on: Every UK postcode given an E-Society rating

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:42:35 +0000

I’m in an area that is rated as A : E-unengaged and type A05 : Too old to be bothered. Which makes sense as many of the people are elderly council tenants.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:41:48 +0000

I did include the images described above in the last comment, but Wordpress seems to have stripped them out.

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/esocietyprofiler/image/class/Aa.jpg

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/esocietyprofiler/image/class/Ab.jpg

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:39:52 +0000

I live in the Forth Valley in Scotland and the result for my postcode is very low… infact, it’s the lowest – Group A: E-unengaged. While many of my neighbours may not know about web 2.0, Flickr or be developing the next killer RoR app I think it’s pretty unfair to label them as ‘unengaged’.

Sure, I live in an area that was once dominated by the shipping and mining industries, and large number of the population may be over 40 or retired, but it’s just crass to use an image of an overweight balding man eating chips…

or an ageing pensioner, carrying a polythene bag (no doubt filled with tesco value cheese, the Daily Record and a few tins of Tennents special)

to describe our collective level of e-society literacy. It’s more than crass actually, it’s offensive.

By: Duncan Barclay

Duncan Barclay — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:05:37 +0000

Apparently where I live is “We are very sorry but we do not have a classification for the postcode ‘*hidden*’ in our database.”, and the same applies for where I lived on campus while at uni last year. They have a nice definition of every postcode.

By: adrian lansdown

adrian lansdown — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:58:52 +0000

this shows some quite interesting results

For my current house
TW7 – Group C : Becoming engaged, which is totally correct for my house mates.

My parents
LE2 – Group F : Instrumental E-users, which is totally correct for them.
Although they found flickr this weekend, they started to use it but I think it freaked them out slightly.

My flat at uni from September doesn’t even have an entry. I always thought people in Sheffield were slightly behide the times

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:51:55 +0000

It does look like that from the results (it just mentions the first part of the postcode). However that would be very inaccurate -- some of the most poorest illiterate people in the UK and some of the most richest and technically advanced people in the UK live in E2 (my postcode). Having tested a few postcodes, it's actually accurate down to the individual postcode. Just try a postcode and then iterate up... Or, check out: E2 0QB - A01: E-unengaged/Low technologists, vs E2 9NA - G21: E-business users/Electronic orderers

By: Frankie Roberto

Frankie Roberto — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:13:48 +0000

I’m ‘H22 – E-Experts/E-committed’ too, which sounds about right for Dulwich.

One correction though – the site only classifies according to the first bit of the postcode (eg SE21), rather than the full postcode, which is a few degrees less granular than you suggest above.