County Stats

[+The Growler]

Can one of you clever people with Project GC or whatever give us an update on the number of caches in each county please? Will be interesting to see how this has developed (well for me at least).

Thanks

[+crb11]

You can get the information from Project GC here: Caches by Area. (Fill in UK, then you can get stats region by region.)

 

It's tight at the top with Hampshire 5693 followed closely by Essex 5624, Kent 5622 and Devon 5566, with West Yorkshire the only other one over 5000 (5284).

[+The Growler]

Thanks

Looks like the good folk of Kent have been busy recently!

[Ferret the Fez]

Surprised Cambs/Peterborough didn't wipe the board!

[+crb11]

There's 4300 in Cambridgeshire and 1226 in Peterborough, so even combined they don't quite make the top spot.

 

However, the coverage is pretty uneven: most of the area west of the A1/A14/M11 line is full of caches, reflecting where the three major COs are based, but there's a lot of empty space in the eastern half of the county. A lot of this is sparsely populated fenland, so not particularly attractive caching territory, but the area S and E of Cambridge is surprisingly empty, with very few new caches in the last year or two.

[Blue Square Thing]

There's 4300 in Cambridgeshire and 1226 in Peterborough, so even combined they don't quite make the top spot.

All the unitary authorities muck things up for other counties as well though - Kent needs Medway, West Sussex has Brighton and Hove, Hampshire Portsmouth and Southampton etc...