Want to Find Detailed Government Census Stats on just your Road (and maybe a Couple Next to it)?

If finding out more about your micro-geography , or just being plain nosey about your immediate neighbours is your thing, I've just become acquainted with the oddly, awfully named super output areas (SOAs) - small sections within an electoral ward. You can search for stats on your own SOA at National Statistics, Neighbourhood Search. You'll have two choices there - to go to a whole host of detailed stats on employment, housing, ethnicity etc or a diagramatic summary. Apparently we're all pretty deprived. But even Crouch End's leafiest streets come up as more deprived than average - so not quite sure about how to take these stats.

The National Statistics Office define SOAs as:

"...new geographic hierarchy designed to improve the reporting of small area statistics in England and Wales. ... generated by a computer programme...taking into account measures of population size, mutual proximity and social homogeneity

Just got to learn more? Go to National Statistics, Super Output Areas. That'll also link you to their site where you can explore other surveys such as the Annual Survey of Hours & Earnings.