Census 2011 and Census 2021 · ONS

Shetland Islands between the censuses

The census is taken once a decade, so what it gives Shetland Islands is two readings, ten years apart — not a trend. Each table below shows both censuses’ published counts, each year’s share of its own total, and the change. Where the two censuses named a category differently, the note under the table says exactly which labels are compared.

The census tables held here cover England and Wales, and no census figures are held for Shetland Islands. Scottish and Northern Irish censuses are run separately and are recorded as a data gap until they are ingested.