The average household size in England and Wales in 2021 was 2.4 people per household, the same as in 2011.
The areas with the highest average household size, all 3.0 residents per household, were:
🏠 Newham
🏠 Slough
🏠 Redbridge.
51.7% of households in England and Wales were deprived in at least one measure of household deprivation.
This number has decreased since 2011, when it was 57.6% (13.5 million) 📉
By region, household deprivation was highest in the North East and lowest in the South East.
Of all households in England and Wales:
🏠 63.0% of households were single family households
🏠 30.2% were one person households
🏠 6.8% were multiple family or other household types.
The percentage of usual residents aged 16 years and over who were never married and never been in a civil partnership has increased in England and Wales - from 34.6% in 2011 to 37.9% in 2021.
We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.