ONS · Census 2011 KS204EW - Country of birth (Nomis)
Census 2011 country of birth
56,075,912people
Census 2011 country of birth were 56,075,912 people in Census 2011.
- ONS count
- Census 2011
- published 30 January 2013
- KS204EW - Country of birth
- row “England and Wales”
- column “All usual residents; RURAL_URBAN=Total”
- cell value 56075912
What this measures
Usual residents on Census Day 2011 by where they were born, using the published categories of Census 2011 table KS204EW: the United Kingdom, Ireland, other EU countries, and other countries.
What this doesn’t measure
Nationality, citizenship, immigration status or ethnic group; nor the 2021 groupings, which divide the world differently and cannot be lined up with these beyond the United Kingdom and the total.
Important caveat
Country of birth is where a person was born, not their nationality, citizenship or ethnic group, and it does not change with time spent in the United Kingdom. The two censuses group the rest of the world differently: 2011 divides it into Ireland, EU countries that were members in March 2001, countries that acceded between April 2001 and March 2011, and other countries; 2021 divides it by world region and, in Europe, into the United Kingdom, the EU (EU14, EU8, EU2 and other) and other non-EU countries. Only the total and "born in the United Kingdom" are comparable across the two, and only those are used to show change. British Overseas territories are a separate 2021 category and are not counted as the UK.
Revision history
No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.
Source
- Publisher
- ONS
- Publication
- Census 2011 KS204EW - Country of birth (Nomis)
- Release
- Census 2011 KS204EW (Nomis, first released 30 January 2013), published 30 January 2013
- Source file
- NM_611_1_TYPE499+TYPE464_rural_urban=0.csv
- File SHA-256
- 5502442469d7b5ffb534936313ade555afdc305c8b0ed487d0f5eceb1b0ecdb9
- Retrieved
- 3 September 2026
- Sheet
- NM_611_1
- Table
- KS204EW - Country of birth
- Row
- England and Wales
- Column
- All usual residents; RURAL_URBAN=Total
- Cell value
- 56075912
- Geography
- England and Wales
- Unit
- people
- API
- /api/metrics/census_country_of_birth_2011 · /series · /vintages
Government periods
Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.
- Release
- Census 2011 KS204EW (Nomis, first released 30 January 2013) · publication page
- Last updated
- 30 January 2013
- Next release expected
- Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)