Heritage and entrepreneurial urbanism: unequal economies, social exclusion, and conservative cultures

Figures & data

Table 1. Information on the studied cities.

	Population	Annual ‘staying visits’ for inbound tourists*	Average house price**	Deprivation ranking***	Median wage****
Bath	89,000	273,000	£449,702	274/317	£27,614
Edinburgh	518,500	1,796,000	£335,199	22/32	£30,172
York	198,000	193,000	£332,131	275/317	£27,507
National	-	-	£286,489	-	£27,756

*With no data existing that uniformly records all tourism and/or tourism spend in cities in the UK, ‘annual ‘staying visits’ for inbound tourists’ is a proxy for the prevalence of tourism. To contextualise this, despite Bath, Edinburgh, and York all being small- to medium-sized cities, they are ranked 11^th, 2^nd, and 14^th by this measure, respectively. Source: Visit Britain (2022). **A proxy for the relative cost of housing in a locale. Source: Land Registry (2023). ***Out of local authority areas in respective devolved regions. Source: MHCLG (2019); Scotland Data (2020). ****Source: ONS (2022).

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