Data source
Postcode resident and household estimates, England and Wales: Census 2021
Published by Office for National Statistics. For each postcode in England and Wales, the usual residents (female and male) and the households on Census Day, 21 March 2021.
The copy we hold
- CoversEngland and Wales
- Our copyCensus Day 21 March 2021, read 28 October 2026
- How oftenCounted once, at the 2021 Census: the figures do not change. Loaded with ops/census-refresh.sh, which checks the files are the ones held
- LicenceOpen Government Licence v3.0
How we use it
ONS counted 1,377,544 postcodes with at least one usual resident or household, as the postcodes were in May 2021; a postcode with no one living in it, or made since, has no figure. Part of a postcode over the border into Scotland is counted for its English part only. ONS changes small counts slightly to protect privacy (record swapping and cell-key perturbation), so a postcode's figure can be a few out. The figures for a sector or district on our pages are the postcodes added up. Residents include anyone living in a care home, hall or other communal home in the postcode.
Open the original from the publisherWhere it is on this site
The credit it asks for
Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
It is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Each page that shows it names it in a short line beside the figures, linked here, and gives this credit once at the foot of the page.
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