This data is part of the '2011 Census: Population and household estimates for England and Wales', the first release of results from the 2011 Census of Population for England and Wales. Published 16 July 2012


The release provides information for England and Wales and constituent regions, counties, London boroughs, districts and unitary Authorities as at census day, 27 March 2011. This release is in accordance with the provisions of section 4(1) of the Census Act 1920.


Confidentiality

ONS as the executive arm of the UK Statistics Authority has a legal obligation not to reveal information collected in confidence in the census about individual people and households. The confidentiality of all census results, including the counts in this release, is protected by a combination of a variety of disclosure protection measures.


Notes and Definitions

1. The main population base for outputs from the 2011 Census is the usual resident population as at census day (27 March 2011).

Although the population base for enumeration included non-UK short-term residents, these are not included in the main outputs from the 2011 Census, but are analysed separately. All outputs, unless specified, are produced using only usual residents of the UK.

For 2011 Census purposes, a usual resident of the UK is anyone who, on census day, was in the UK and had stayed or intended to stay in the UK for a period of 12 months or more, or had a permanent UK address and was outside the UK and intended to be outside the UK for less than 12 months.

2. Further information about the census estimates, including commentary, details about the methodology, information about how other population sub-groups are counted, and other definitions, are available on the ONS website


Terms and Conditions

1. All material is subject to Crown Copyright protection

2. These statistics may be used, excluding logos, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.

Frequency: Census (10 years)

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Type of information
Older Censuses (pre-2021)
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Short term migrants (842 bytes)Jan 2001 — Dec 2010

A short-term migrant is anyone born outside the UK who has stayed or intends to stay in the UK for a period of three months or more but less than 12 months

Usual residents living in households and communal establishments (50.21 kB)Jan 2001 — Dec 2010

A household resident is a person whose usual place of residence is a household, and not within managed residential accommodation in a communal establishment.

A communal establishment resident is a person living in managed residential accommodation who has lived, or intends to live there for six months or more. Individuals resident in a communal establishment for less than six months are enumerated at their home address, apart from those with no usual address elsewhere who are also classified as residents.