These tables focus on topics that were felt to be widely applicable to the whole nation. All households were asked to answer these questions.

SC11 - Dwellings by building type, rooms and household spaces [1961 census]

Provides a tabulation of dwelling according to the number of household spaces and the number of rooms within them.

SC13 - Private households by size, rooms occupied and sharing of dwellings [1961 census]

Provides a tabulation of households according to the number of rooms they occupy and the number of persons there on Census night.

SC22 - Dwellings by availability of certain household arrangements [1961 census]

Gives a tabulation of dwellings according to their possession of household arrangements. Dwellings are restricted to building types 2 and 3.

SH01 - Distribution by tenure [1961 Census]

Shows for each tenure category, the number of households and the number of persons enumerated in them and the number of rooms occupied

SH02 - Dwellings by building type [1961 Census]

Gives the sub-division of permanent dwellings according to the type of building of which they form part, with the total of occupied household spaces, the persons enumerated within those spaces, and the number of rooms they contain.

SH03 - Residents born outside UK by country of birth [1961 Census]

Shows sex and country of birth of residents of England and Wales born outside the UK except that the figure for Ireland includes persons born in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

SH04 - Residents born outside UK by nationality [1961 Census]

Shows Nationality or Citizenship of residents of England and Wales by sex born outside the British Isles.
Persons with nationality not stated are included with included with "other aliens".

SH05a - Non-private population - Not hotels - Persons [1961 Census]

Gives the population enumerated in various types of institutional households (not hotels) by sex, giving counts of all person, and (where appropriate) the number of inmates.

SH05b - Non-private population - Not hotels - Establishments [1961 Census]

Gives the number of various types of institutional households (not hotels)

SH06 - Household arrangements [1961 Census]

Shows tabulation of households according to their possession of household arrangements, the number of households with exclusive use all four arrangements, the number sharing and without each of the arrangements; households sharing a dwelling 'sharing households' are shown and within these, those without exclusive use of a stove and a sink 'sharing kitchen' are shown separately.

SH07 - Old persons living alone [1961 Census]

Gives persons of each sex of pensionable age (males aged 65 and over and females aged 60 and over) enumerated alone.

SH08 - Old persons in households of 2 persons [1961 Census]

Shows households of two persons with one or both of pensionable age, divided into: married couples, two males, two females, other sub-divided according to the sex of the elder. The total "Male Older" includes cases where both are the same age.

SH09 - Non-private population - hotels [1961 Census]

Gives population enumerated in hotels split into staff, relatives of staff, resident guests and visitor guests; number of hotels in different size categories.

SH10 - All non-private [1961 Census]

Shows population enumerated outside private households by sex in quinquennial age groups up to 65 and over.

SH11 - Densities - persons per room [1961 census]

Shows distribution of households and of the persons in them according to the number of persons per room with separate rows for households sharing a dwelling with exclusive of stove and sink "with kitchen" and those sharing a dwelling without exclusive use of stove and sink "sharing kitchen".

SH12 - Persons resident outside local authority area [1961 census]

Gives figures by sex of persons with a usual residence outside the Local Authority area of enumeration distinguishing visitors from elsewhere in England and Wales and from outside England and Wales. For Local Authority areas split by New Town or Conurbation Centre boundaries the parts of the local authority area within and outside the New Town or Conurbation Centre are treated as separate Local Authority areas.

SH13 - Age and marital condition by five year age groups [1961 Census]

Gives population by sex and marital condition in quinquennial age-groups.

SH14 - Single years under 21 [1961 census]

Shows population under 21 by single years of age.

SH15 - Sharing households by number of persons [1961 census]

Gives number of households sharing a dwelling by number of persons (1 to 7 and over) in each sharing household.