Change in Population Density 1971-1981              Change in Population Density 1981-1991
                                              

Over this twenty year period, there has been substantial loss of population from the core with declines in density (blue) with growth in the outer urban ring and the hinterland. However the greatest growth has been on the very edge of the region in particular in the south west on the coast and the eact north and south of the town of Bath