2011 Census Population and Household Estimates for England and Wales

Today the ONS publishes the First Release of statistics from the 2011 Census Population and Household Estimates for England and Wales. To improve user access to the data, ONS has decided to make this information additionally available on the Nomis website.

2011 Census Population and Household Estimates for England and Wales

• On census night the population in England and Wales was 56.1 million, 53.0 million in England and 3.1 million in Wales. This was the largest the population had ever been.
• The population of England and Wales grew by 3.7 million in the 10 years since the last census, rising from 52.4 million in 2001, an increase of 7.1 per cent. This was the largest growth in the population in England and Wales in any 10-year period since census taking began, in 1801.
• The median age of the population in England and Wales was 39. For men, the median age was 38 and for women it was 40. In 1911, the median age was 25.
• The percentage of the population aged 65 and over was the highest seen in any census at 16.4 per cent, that is one in six people in the population was 65 and over.
• There were 430,000 residents aged 90 and over in 2011 compared with 340,000 in 2001 and 13,000 in 1911.
• In 2011, there were 3.5 million children under five in England and Wales, 406,000 more than in 2001.

Statistical Bulletin

Download: 2011 Census - Population and Household Estimates for England and Wales, March 2011 (pdf)

FIRST RELEASE DATA

Table H01 2011 Census: Number of households with at least one usual resident, local authorities in England and Wales

Coverage: England and Wales

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates for the number of households with at least one usual resident, for regions, counties, London boroughs, districts and unitary authorities in England and Wales on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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Table M01 2011 Census: Number of non-UK short-term residents by broad age group and sex, England and Wales and constituent countries

Coverage: England and Wales

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates for the number of non-UK short-term residents, by broad age group and sex, for England and Wales, England, and Wales on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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Table M02 2011 Census: Number of non-UK short-term residents by sex, local authorities in England and Wales

Coverage: England and Wales

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates for the number of non-UK short-term residents, by sex, for regions, counties, London boroughs, districts and unitary authorities in England and Wales on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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Table P01 2011 Census: Usual resident population by single year of age and sex, England and Wales

Coverage: England and Wales

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates of the usual resident population, by single year of age and sex, for England and Wales on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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Table P02 2011 Census: Usual resident population by single year of age and sex, England

Coverage: England

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates of the usual resident population, by single year of age and sex, for England on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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Table P03 2011 Census: Usual resident population by single year of age and sex, Wales

Coverage: Wales

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates of the usual resident population, by single year of age and sex, for Wales on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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Table P04 2011 Census: Usual resident population by five-year age group, local authorities in England and Wales

Coverage: England and Wales

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates of the usual resident population by five-year age groups, for regions, counties, London boroughs, districts and unitary authorities in England and Wales on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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Table P05 2011 Census: Male usual resident population by five-year age group, local authorities in England and Wales

Coverage: England and Wales

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates of the male usual resident population by five-year age groups, for regions, counties, London boroughs, districts and unitary authorities in England and Wales on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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Table P06 2011 Census: Female usual resident population by five-year age group, local authorities in England and Wales

Coverage: England and Wales

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates of the female usual resident population by five-year age groups, for regions, counties, London boroughs, districts and unitary authorities in England and Wales on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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Table P07 2011 Census: Number of usual residents living in households and communal establishments, local authorities in England and Wales

Coverage: England and Wales

Description: This table provides 2011 Census estimates for the total number of usual residents and those that live in households and in communal establishments, for regions, counties, London boroughs, districts and unitary authorities in England and Wales on Census Day (27 March 2011).

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LOCAL AUTHORITY QUALITY ASSURANCE PACK

A key part of the quality assurance (QA) process was the assessment of the age-sex census population estimates against administrative data and the mid-year population estimates. The 2011 Census QA Pack is an Excel tool that replicates the age-sex charts which were used in the QA assessment of each local authority. The pack also contains the same charts at county level.

In addition the pack allows you to assess for each local authority:

• estimates in a regional and national context
• estimates of short-term residents who are not part of the usual residence base
• estimates of households occupied by usual residents
• response rates and confidence intervals by age and sex
• the components of the estimation and adjustment process

As a macro-enabled Excel tool, the QA pack can be used to quickly and easily consider this information for any local authority in England and Wales. The tool can also be printed as a PDF report for a specific local authority.

To use the pack, you must enable macros. When you open the pack, you will see the warning 'some active content has been disabled'. Click 'options' and 'enable this content'.

All data in the pack are rounded to the nearest hundred, consistent with the first release of census data.

Download:

• 2011 Census quality assurance pack guidance notes (pdf, 25 Kb)
• 2011 Census quality assurance pack data tables (Excel, 790 Kb)
• 2011 Census quality assurance pack (Excel 1997-2003 version) (Zip, 2.4 Mb)
• 2011 Census quality assurance pack (Excel 2007-2010 version) (Zip, 3.5 Mb)