Ward Level Origin-destination Travel Data on NOMIS Website

18 June 2008

Nomis is a service provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to give you free access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources.

2001 Census data for the UK on travel flows between wards, previously only available on CD or requiring specialist software to use, can now be viewed and downloaded free of charge from the NOMIS Official Labour Market Statistics website. This follows on from the release of the data on travel flows between local authority areas (announced in the earlier Census Updates Origin-destination Travel Data on NOMIS Website and Scottish Origin-destination Travel Data on NOMIS Website).

The data is provided in tables that show daily flows of workers (and students in Scotland) from residence to place of work/study for all wards in the United Kingdom.

The tables are a subset of the origin-destination data and include breakdowns of the characteristics of the people in the flows. The information which is available is from the following ward level origin-destination tables:

• W201 - W206 for England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• TV201 - TV206 for Scotland, but only data for those aged 16 - 74 who are in employment. The remaining Scottish travel data, covering those not aged 16 - 74 and those aged 16 - 74 who are not in employment, will be put onto the NOMIS website at a later date.

A description of the ward level origin-destination statistics can be found on the Origin Destination Statistics: Wards page of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website.

The inclusion of these tables on the NOMIS Official Labour Market Statistics website enables easier and greater access to 2001 Census travel data for the specialist and more general user alike. If you have not used NOMIS before, access to the data is available by clicking on either the "Wizard query" or the "Advanced query" options that appear on the home page and then clicking on "2001 Census - UK travel flows (ward)". The Wizard query will assist you in choosing the geographic areas and data topics you require.