Extraordinary census data to be revealed for the first time.

Today’s grandparents have probably lived through more change than any other generation in history: the Second World War, the Cold War, great advances in medical science and the mass communication revolution. But despite these momentous shifts, patterns of population, employment, poverty, health and education have remained strikingly familiar.

Remarkable maps of the social and economic make-up of Britain are revealed this week on a website which, for the first time, makes public millions of pieces of information about places all over the country.

Guardian Unlimited, UK