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More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Are There Gardening Areas in the UK?
The total area of gardens in the uk is about four thousand 300 square kilometers. But that's 20 years old data, though, ken perhaps ou gardens have bloomed in that time or maybe they've grown like weeds. So i went back and looked at those three numbers again to see if there were better, newer data that we could use. Ther is the later census, which was conducted very recently, which gives us an up to date figure for the number of households in the uK. The proportion of households they reckon that have a garden is still somewhere around 85%. And the area of an individual garden, on average, i still somewhere around hundred, 85, 290 square
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