Where's the biggest concentration of Charlton fans nowadays?

Uboat

3000?!

robinofottershaw

harveys_gardener said:

Strangely, despite my moniker, I'm not in SE7, but Chertsey.

I'm a near neighbour then.

Airman Brown

Something like 60% of fans live inside the M25, about two thirds of those in Greenwich and Bexley. 

Bear in mind that the population is much denser (cue jokes) in London, and while Kent is large geographically it’s relatively sparsely occupied (Bexley is not in Kent and hasn’t been for 50 years; neither is Kent properly part of its postal address).

Kent & Medway is probably about 12-15 per cent, about the same as Lewisham and Bromley combined. The rest is the diaspora, with a clump in East Sussex.

The heaviest concentration was always Eltham/Welling//Bexleyheath/Sidcup/Chislehurst/Orpington-I think partly because of the larger Asian/black community in the north of Greenwich and Bexley, and the particular nature of Thamesmead. Might also be to do with relative levels of poverty in those areas, which makes football less affordable.

Note that Eltham is a very large postcode compared to SE7, especially, or even SE18, which distorts relative perceptions. That is, there are a lot fans in SE9 but the total population is much larger than that of SE7.

I suspect as the club shrank in recent years - and the fact the club hiked the price of Valley Express and failed to promote it externally - had a disproportionate effect on the numbers travelling from further afield. You’d expect people to make more effort for Prem/Championship football anyway; we have certainly lost people to Maidstone and other non-league.

That said, in the mid-2000s we brought virtually every primary school in Thanet into Premier League matches (paying, not free), as well as many from neighbouring districts. There is still a legacy of that in that you find some fans in East Kent in their early 20s who became Charlton supporters back then. 

harveys_gardener

robinofottershaw said:

harveys_gardener said:

Strangely, despite my moniker, I'm not in SE7, but Chertsey.

I'm a near neighbour then.

Prince Regent is my pub of choice if you want to watch the recheduled Preston game.

Weegie Addick

What about Belvedere?

Davo55

It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

Greetings from Wokingham, Berkshire. I believe there's a few of us in these parts.

N01R4M

Yes, I'm now living north of Reading, Berkshire. 
(Born in Charlton, raised in Orpington, have lived in Durham & Derbyshire, & planning to retire to Cheshire!)

i_b_b_o_r_g

AFKABartram said:

@PragueAddick

nothing overly meaningful but I took a snapshot earlier of the first 3,000 visitors to CL today.

Sunday is always the least visited day of a week, but should give a better concentration of people being at home / local area as opposed to skewed by work.

Global breakdown - UK 87.9%, USA 1.7%, Australia 1.1%, Spain 0.7%, Ireland, 0.6%, Canada 0.5%, France 0.4%

UK Breakdown (country)- England 97.3%, Wales 1.2%, Scotland 1%, NI 0.5%

Uk breakdown (city -top 25):

London 47.3%
(not set) 8.3%
Dartford 3.1%
Gravesend 1.8%
Maidstone 1.7%
Southend 1.7%
Croydon 1.2%
Rochester 1%
Basildon .8%
Birmingham .8%
Leeds .8%
Brighton .7%
Tumbridge Wells .7%
Hove .7%
Margate .6%
chatham .6%
Hastings .6%
Swanley .6%
Crawley .5%
Manchester .5%
Nottingham .5%
Sittingbourne .5%
Southampton .5%
Herne Bay .5%

sadly google analytics doesn’t breakdown London any further 

Squarespace breaks London down mate (Lime House - Brent - Greenwich etc.) , that's how I've got a good idea whose been stalking my Mrs website since sharing it on here.....

charltonnick

Airman Brown said:

Something like 60% of fans live inside the M25, about two thirds of those in Greenwich and Bexley. 

Bear in mind that the population is much denser (cue jokes) in London, and while Kent is large geographically it’s relatively sparsely occupied (Bexley is not in Kent and hasn’t been for 50 years; neither is Kent properly part of its postal address).

Bexley has always been Kent as far as I was aware

charlton_hero

SE13 here

ElfsborgAddick

Hastingsaddick said:

After the play off final we went for a drink in the Spoons at St Pancras, obviously as this is close to Kings Cross there were quite a few Sunderland in there but I was quite surprised how many Charlton were in there all heading out to Kent on the HS1  I'd guess.

"Quite surprised", ffs we should have had hundreds.

Weegie Addick

AFKABartram said:

@PragueAddick

nothing overly meaningful but I took a snapshot earlier of the first 3,000 visitors to CL today.

Sunday is always the least visited day of a week, but should give a better concentration of people being at home / local area as opposed to skewed by work.

Global breakdown - UK 87.9%, USA 1.7%, Australia 1.1%, Spain 0.7%, Ireland, 0.6%, Canada 0.5%, France 0.4%

UK Breakdown (country)- England 97.3%, Wales 1.2%, Scotland 1%, NI 0.5%

Uk breakdown (city -top 25):

London 47.3%
(not set) 8.3%
Dartford 3.1%
Gravesend 1.8%
Maidstone 1.7%
Southend 1.7%
Croydon 1.2%
Rochester 1%
Basildon .8%
Birmingham .8%
Leeds .8%
Brighton .7%
Tumbridge Wells .7%
Hove .7%
Margate .6%
chatham .6%
Hastings .6%
Swanley .6%
Crawley .5%
Manchester .5%
Nottingham .5%
Sittingbourne .5%
Southampton .5%
Herne Bay .5%

sadly google analytics doesn’t breakdown London any further 

What are the house prices like in (not set) as sounds like it might be a fun place to retire to?

ElfsborgAddick

Oggy Red said:

Deepest Cornwall ..... there's me, WheresMeTicket and Charente Addick from Charlton Life.

And over the border in nearby England, clb74 is desperately wanting to buy a 3 bed semi in Plymouth for £100k.

The good people of Bromley are desperate for @clb74 to buy a 100k property....anywhere.

ElfsborgAddick

AFKABartram said:

@PragueAddick

nothing overly meaningful but I took a snapshot earlier of the first 3,000 visitors to CL today.

Sunday is always the least visited day of a week, but should give a better concentration of people being at home / local area as opposed to skewed by work.

Global breakdown - UK 87.9%, USA 1.7%, Australia 1.1%, Spain 0.7%, Ireland, 0.6%, Canada 0.5%, France 0.4%

UK Breakdown (country)- England 97.3%, Wales 1.2%, Scotland 1%, NI 0.5%

Uk breakdown (city -top 25):

London 47.3%
(not set) 8.3%
Dartford 3.1%
Gravesend 1.8%
Maidstone 1.7%
Southend 1.7%
Croydon 1.2%
Rochester 1%
Basildon .8%
Birmingham .8%
Leeds .8%
Brighton .7%
Tumbridge Wells .7%
Hove .7%
Margate .6%
chatham .6%
Hastings .6%
Swanley .6%
Crawley .5%
Manchester .5%
Nottingham .5%
Sittingbourne .5%
Southampton .5%
Herne Bay .5%

sadly google analytics doesn’t breakdown London any further 

So what was the 47.3 breakdown?

SoundAsa£

Amazed Sevenoaks is not listed?

Addickted2U

E14 to SE3, abandoned West Ham and turned Addick - much to the ire of my Nan. 
SE3 to BR3, BR3 to RH10, RH10 to BN6, BN6 to WC1N, WC1N to HD8. 
Looking forward to work tomorrow when I can gloat at a good number of Leeds fans. 

sunbury-addick

Met family / friends at Waterloo 12.00 for Wembley. Staggered at the amount of Charlton joining the train at virtually every stop from Sunbury onwards, quite a few Sunderland too, but, vastly outnumbered.

Think my eldest found the tale amusing - he said platforms were rammed, every stop after he jumped on, Bexleyheath, to meet us.

BlackburnCharlton

So far I'm the only Charlton in town. BB2. But Dean Keilys agent once got in me local. Born se9. Well Hall, was season ticket holder in 3rd division. Have also lived in Romford, Mottingham and now Blackburn. Charlton till I die. Nuff said.

Daarrzzetbum

My part of Tropical Dorset and my kids in Worcester & Reading (once of Welling)

Chippycafc

Between Basingstoke and Newbury... 

Uboat

Funnily enough absolutely no other Charlton in Barnet.

CatAddick

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Born British Hospital for Mothers and Babies '77

Lived on Woolwich Road at 648, just along from Barry's Newsagents (think he ended up a PO in Belmarsh) from a few days old till I was about 14

Mottingham (strange place, but nice), 

Gravesend,

Europe (another strange place....)

Way before your time, but my grandfather grew up living in 622 in the 20’s

robinofottershaw

harveys_gardener said:

robinofottershaw said:

harveys_gardener said:

Strangely, despite my moniker, I'm not in SE7, but Chertsey.

I'm a near neighbour then.

Prince Regent is my pub of choice if you want to watch the recheduled Preston game.

I’ll bear that in mind. Looks like we are moving 1 November (even though we are still searching for a new property) in order to lock in our house sale, which will make it easier as cash buyers when we do find something. So might need an excuse to get out of unpacking that day.

Plan is to eventually move to somewhere in the Cotswolds, which will make getting to home games a bit of a trek! Near term we will probably rent somewhere around here whilst my wife is still commuting in to London.

Ianaddick62

Not many of us here in Newcastle but I work with a Geordie Leeds fan so looking forward to tomorrow

kilian_om

In nottingham at uni now, but from SE12

addick05

Born Bromley, raised in Orpington but moved back to Bromley some 40+ years' ago.

Fanny Fanackapan

Greetings from one of AB's clump in East Sussex ! 

DA1 born & bred and in residence from 1948 - October 2015.

Now a mile or 2 over the border from my home county in TN5.

Dazzler21

creepyaddick said:

RH11 Obvs

RH12 Obvs

Slartibartfast

Hi peeps, born Barnehurst, been a 'clumper' for 25 years!

Oggy Red

ElfsborgAddick said:

Oggy Red said:

Deepest Cornwall ..... there's me, WheresMeTicket and Charente Addick from Charlton Life.

And over the border in nearby England, clb74 is desperately wanting to buy a 3 bed semi in Plymouth for £100k.

The good people of Bromley are desperate for @clb74 to buy a 100k property....anywhere.

Well, if you don't want him in Bromley, then we're hardly likely to want him within spitting distance of Cornwall, now do we?

Anyway, the only chance of him getting anything for £100k, will be in Burnley or Accrington Stanley.
You can Buy One, Get One Free up there.

Then AFKA can add Accrington Stanley to his ex-pat Addicks list.