Glasgow Under A Microscope

I think Glasgow is changing, and where a new population is flooding into the city, and bringing with them healthy and educated ways. From what I see the city will have problems for the next decade or so, but it will come out of the other side as a healthy and wealthy city.

The key to this transformation is a growth its population, and where young and healthy workers replace a generation of smokers living within poor housing, along with attracted highly educated and skilled workforce. As heavy industry leaves, so software, data science and cyber security enter. As someone who drives to Glasgow from Edinburgh, I see so much infrastructure creation, and see a new building almost every time I travel to the city.

The issues …

I’ll show this change at the end of this article, but let’s start to look at some basic demographics about the city. If you go to any city in the world, you will see the same types of splits, between those who have and those who have not … and Glasgow is no different.

First we’ll plot the latest health domain rankings (where 1 is the weakest) from SIMD 2016 and employment, and we find that Possil Park has the weakest grading [here]: