Migration refers to movements of people, in this case movements of people into and out of Leeds or York. According to the 2001 Census a migrant is “a person with a different address one year before the Census to that on Census day”

This resource is based around ArcView GIS 3.3. It helps students to understand and be able to input shapefiles and census data into ArcView version 3.3 and then to produce maps showing migration patterns in Leeds and York.

Documents to download include:

• migration in Leeds and York- how to find and input census data into a GIS
• segregation lesson plan
• York migration
• Harehills- in migrants from outside UK
• Leeds migration map
• Leeds- non white migrants
• Leeds- migrants from outside UK
• Leeds- migrants from rest of UK
• Leeds- moved out to rest of UK
• Leeds- moved within Leeds
• Leeds- total migration

This resource was written by Sue Lawrence (York College)