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2011 Census: Release 2.2 of results for England and Wales

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the next outputs in the second wave of results from the 2011 Census on 30 January 2013.

UK Statistics Authority website

Tables of statistics for output area, ward, parish, and parliamentary constituency geographies (for England and Wales) have been published in this Release. This means that data previously published at local authority level (for example, household composition, housing, ethnicity, religion, Welsh language skills, health status, long-term health problems, and employment) are available at a low geographical level.

These are the key results for Wales.

On 27 March 2011, Wales had 3.1 million usual residents.

  • 97 per cent of usual residents in Wales aged three years and over reported English or Welsh as their main language in 2011
  • 3 per cent of the population had a main language other than English or Welsh and three-quarters of that 3 per cent could speak English or Welsh well
  • 19 per cent of usual residents in Wales aged three and over reported that they could speak Welsh
  • in 2011, there were fewer electoral divisions with high proportions of people able to speak Welsh than in 2001
  • after English and Welsh the next most reported main language in Wales was Polish (0.6 per cent, 17,000), followed by Arabic (0.2 per cent, 7,000)
  • the percentage of usual residents living in a one-family married couple household where at least one household member was aged less than 65 decreased from 50 per cent, (1.4 million) in 2001 to 44 per cent (1.3 million) in 2011
  • the percentage of usual residents living in a one-family cohabiting couple household where at least one household member was aged less than 65, increased from nine per cent (258,000) in 2001 to 12 per cent (367,000) in 2011
  • in 2011 67 per cent of the working population travelled to work in a car or van to work in Wales

Office for National statistics website: 2011 Census, Key Statistics and Quick Statistics for Electoral Divisions and Output Areas in Wales (external link)

There are also three ONS analytical reports: General Health, Disability, and Families (external link).

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3220
E-mail: stats.popcensus@wales.gsi.gov.uk

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