Attendance Figures Analysed - Part Two

Last updated : 06 October 2004 By Floodlight

first figure - Town Population (1991)

second figure - District Population (1995)

third figure - average attendance as a percentage of town population

* - no figure available

Bristol Rovers - 407992, 400700, 2.03% - share city with Bristol City, no explanation for town figure being bigger

Notts County - 270222, 283800, 1.89% - share city with Nottingham Forest

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Northampton Town - 179596, 189700, 3.32%

Swansea City - 171083, 230600, 4.36%

Southend United - 158517, 171200, 2.76%

Oxford United - 118795, 134800, 3.95%

Cambridge United - 95682, 114800, 3.67%

Rochdale - 94313, 207600, 2.89%

Cheltenham Town - 91301, 106600, 3.99%

Grimsby Town - 90703, *, 5.86%

Darlington - 86757, 100600, 4.56%

Lincoln City - 80281, 84300, 6.08%

Chester City - 80110, 120110, 3.63%

Scunthorpe United - 75982, *, 6.18%

Mansfield Town - 71853, 101600, 6.54%

Rushden & Diamonds - 65456, 68300, 4.33% - figures based on Rushden and Wellingborough

Shrewsbury Town - 64219, 95800, 6.44%

Bury - 62633, 181900, 4.64%

Kidderminster Harriers - 54644, *, 4.48%

Macclesfield Town - 50270, 151800, 4.43%

Boston United - 34606, 54100, 8.81%

Yeovil - 38805, *, 14.01%

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Leyton Orient - *, 221100, * - based on Waltham Forest area

Wycombe Wanderers - *, 164100, * - district includes High Wycombe and Marlow

Notes:

Ignore top two clubs and bottom two clubs as being unrepresentative.

Yeovil and Boston both draw good sized crowds for size of town population base. It helps that they do not have competition in area. Mansfield, Shrewsbury and Lincoln also do well.

Macclesfield suffer from a smallish town population and although pulling in a better percentage figure than many other clubs, there is too much competition in the area to turn the large district population figure into a bigger crowd.