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ACORN (acronym for A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods) is a geodemographic information system categorising all United Kingdom postcodes into various types based upon census data and other information such as lifestyle surveys. It was developed by Richard Webber of CACI Limited, who also developed the competing MOSAIC system, and is sold to businesses, health and local authorities typically for marketing and planning purposes.

The population is divided into five categories from Wealthy Achievers (25.1%) to Hard Pressed (22.4%). They are also broken down into 17 categories from Wealthy Executives (8.6%) to Inner City Adversity (2.1%) and into 57 categories from Wealthy Mature Professionals, Large Houses (1.7%) to Multi-Ethnic, Crowded Flats (1.1%). hi Wealthy Achievers

Wealthy Executives

01 - Affluent mature professionals, large houses
02 - Affluent working families with mortgages
03 - Villages with wealthy commuters
04 - Well-off managers, larger houses

Affluent Greys

05 - Older affluent professionals
06 - Farming communities
07 - Old people, detached houses
08 - Mature couples, smaller detached houses

Flourishing Families

09 - Larger families, prosperous suburbs
10 - Well-off working families with mortgages
11 - Well-off managers, detached houses
12 - Large families & houses in rural areas

Urban Prosperity

Prosperous Professionals

13 - Well-off professionals, larger houses and converted flats
14 - Older Professionals in detached houses and apartments

Educated Urbanites

15 - Affluent urban professionals, flats
16 - Prosperous young professionals, flats
17 - Young educated workers, flats
18 - Multi-ethnic young, converted flats
19 - Suburban privately renting professionals

Aspiring Singles

20 - Student flats and cosmopolitan sharers
21 - Singles & sharers, multi-ethnic areas
22 - Low income singles, small rented flats
23 - Student Terraces

Comfortably Off

Starting Out

24 - Young couples, flats and terraces
25 - White collar singles/sharers, terraces

Secure Families

26 - Younger white-collar couples with mortgages
27 - Middle income, home owning areas
28 - Working families with mortgages
29 - Mature families in suburban semis
30 - Established home owning workers
31 - Home owning Asian family areas

Settled Suburbia

32 - Retired home owners
33 - Middle income, older couples
34 - Lower income people, semis

Prudent Pensioners

35 - Elderly singles, purpose built flats
36 - Older people, flats

Moderate Means

Asian Communities

37 - Crowded Asian terraces
38 - Low income Asian families

Post Industrial Families

39 - Skilled older family terraces
40 - Young family workers

Blue Collar Roots

41 - Skilled workers, semis and terraces
42 - Home owning, terraces
43 - Older rented terraces

Hard Pressed

Struggling Families

44 - Low income larger families, semis
45 - Older people, low income, small semis
46 - Low income, routine jobs, unemployment
47 - Low rise terraced estates of poorly-off workers
48 - Low incomes, high unemployment, single parents
49 - Large families, many children, poorly educated

Burdened Singles

50 - Council flats, single elderly people
51 - Council terraces, unemployment, many singles
52 - Council flats, single parents, unemployment

High Rise Hardship

53 - Old people in high rise flats
54 - Singles & single parents, high rise estates

Inner City Adversity

55 - Multi-ethnic purpose built estates
56 - Multi-ethnic, crowded flats

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 The population is divided into five categories from ''Wealthy Achievers'' (25.1%) to ''Hard Pressed'' (22.4%). They are also broken down into 17 categories from ''Wealthy Executives'' (8.6%) to ''Inner City Adversity'' (2.1%) and into 57 categories from ''Wealthy Mature Professionals, Large Houses'' (1.7%) to ''Multi-Ethnic, Crowded Flats'' (1.1%).
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