• The 2001 Census took place on 29 April 2001 and celebrated 200 years of census taking in England and Wales.

  • Information about the 2001 Census statistical outputs, data quality and other supporting information.

  • Information about legislation and the design, consultation and evaluation of the 2001 Census.

  • Definitions of terms and phrases used in products and statistical outputs from the 2001 Census.

  • Results from all previous censuses are available - those before the 1960's are in printed reports, but with many more recent results in electronic form.

  • Census Customer Services provide expert advice about the 2011 and earlier censuses.

  • The 1961 Census Small Area Statistics digitisation project is part of a body of work to make more historic Census outputs available to the public.

  • Newly digitised county and district level statistics from the 1921 Census show changes in the way we lived after World War I and the Spanish flu.