ABSTRACT
This chapter explores whether Britain has indeed been bypassed by the developments, though this investigation is set in the context of a broader review of population trends in the 1970s. It shows that the rates of population change per year caused by net migration and other changes for five periods and set the data alongside the rates of natural change and overall population change. Redistribution of population between labour markets in each broad regional group depends principally on the capacity of the largest metropolitan centre to retain its population. Most accounts of the 1950s and 1960s are in substantial agreement in highlighting two major components of population redistribution in Britain, distinguished principally by the scale at which they operate. The main areas of rapid population growth and net in-migration in the 1970s tend to lie just beyond the traditional suburban countries.
