FOI reference: FOI-2025-2504
You asked
Please could you provide the most recent statistics available regarding the number of Polish nationals currently residing in the United Kingdom?
We said
Thank you for your freedom of information request.
Census 2021 is currently our best estimate of the population of England and Wales by country of birth and passports held. While this source provides the best picture of society at a moment in time, we acknowledge that there is a need for more timely and frequent statistics at a consistent level of quality. Provisional estimates for the year ending June 2022, produced by rolling forward Census 2021 estimates and accounting for population change, were published in International migration research, progress update: November 2022.
This indicated that 682,000 residents of the UK were born in Poland.
The attached datasets provide the number of residents in England and Wales whose country of birth was Poland from Census 2021.
ONS is responsible for the Census in England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland conduct their own. Their contact details are:
NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND (NRS)
Tel: 0131 3144299 Email: statisticscustomerservices@nrscotland.gov.uk Website: www.nrscotland.gov.uk
NORTHERN IRELAND STATISTICS & RESEARCH AGENCY (NISRA)
Tel: 02890 255156 Email: info@nisra.gov.uk Website: https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics
Download associated with request
- Country of Birth 2021 Census Poland (651 B csv)