EU referendum: How the results compare to the UK's educated, old and immigrant populations

Before the referendum, much was made about how different demographic groups had vastly different opinions on Brexit.

Now that Britain has voted to leave the European Union, we can see how this was proven true. Regional results have been influenced by different concerns and backgrounds, showing a country strongly divided by class, age and education.

From age and class, to immigrant population and Ukip vote, certain patterns kept indicating how each part of the UK were going to vote in the EU referendum.

The Brexit vote overlapped strongly with the UK's older population

Those aged over 60 were the most likely group to want to leave the EU, according the polls before the vote.

As you can see from the map, the East coast areas that scored the highest anti-EU votes are also the areas with the highest pensioner populace.

Just two of the thirty areas with the highest share of over 65s voted to Remain - South Lakeland in the North West and South Hams in the South West. Every other older area voted for Brexit.

Map of those aged over 65

The higher the level of education, the higher the EU support

According to the polls, university graduates were the most likely people to want to remain in the EU - while those with a GCSE or equivalent as their highest qualification were more likely to back Brexit.

This was a pattern that was reflected in the results - with the Brexit vote correlating with areas with high shares of people with no education.

Only three of 35 areas where more than half of residents had a degree voted to leave the EU - South Bucks, West Devon, and Malvern Hills in the West Midlands.

Map of those with university education

Class was a key dividing line in the EU referendum

Levels of education and class overlap strongly in the UK, and so the Brexit vote also matched up with areas with higher levels of people from the DE social class - meaning people in semi-skilled or unskilled labour, those in casual labour and pensioners.

This includes Blaenau Gwent in Wales, which has the highest working class population in Britain. Some 62 percent of voters here went for Leave.

Just three of the top fifty areas with the highest share of people from DE class backgrounds voted to Remain.

Leicester, Liverpool and Newham in London were statistical anomalies because they are big cities with a high number of young voters.

Map of those with lower DE class

Last year's Ukip vote overlaps perfectly with Brexit support

This is unsurprising, of course, given that leaving the EU is the policy on which Ukip was built.

Nigel Farage, Ukip's leader, played a dominant role in the Brexit campaign, and his party's record results in previous elections led in many ways to the referendum being held in the first place.

Once more, you can spot their heartlands on the east coast - all ten regions with the highest eurosceptic vote followed the coastline.

Map of Ukip vote share in General Election

Areas with high immigration wanted to stay in the EU

Considering how the Leave campaign adopted immigration as one of its key arguments, claiming that the current level of net migration is too high, it is unsurprising that the Remain campaign resonated more strongly with Britain's immigrant population.

London, where immigration is massively higher than the rest of the country, voted overwhelmingly to Remain - by 60 percent to 40.

But it's the areas in the South East and the East Midlands, where immigration has made a bigger impact only recently, that Ukip and now the Leave campaign have most resonated with.