Mid-year population estimates and density for KM2 2025

FOI reference: FOI-2026-3777

You asked

Please could you provide mid-year population estimates (2025), land area in KM2 and population density for the counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies in England and Wales (as finally set in 1998 when Herefordshire was recreated).  

For your convenience, the last set of results was released on the ONS website: 

Population estimates for 1997 Lieutenancy areas in England and Wales, June 2024 - Office for National Statistics.

We said

Thank you for your request. 

The information you have requested can be ordered via our Commissioned Tables team as a bespoke output. Such services are subject to disclosure controls, legal frameworks, and an agreement of costs in line with our charging policy. If you wish to order this analysis, please contact Pop.Info@ons.gov.uk to discuss this further.

Please note, we will update our small area population estimates as part of our Population estimates by output areas, electoral, health and other geographies, England and Wales: mid-2025 release provisionally in December 2026 / January 2027. You may therefore wish to order your analysis after this release is published, so you receive the most up-to-date information.  

As the requested information is reasonably accessible via another route, even if only on payment, the exemption found under s.21 of the Freedom of Information 2000 (FOIA) applies.