List of United Kingdom censuses
The census in the United Kingdom is decennial, that is, held every ten years, although there is provision in the Census Act 1920 for a census to take place at intervals of five years or more. There have only been two occasions where the census has not been decennial: There was no census in 1941 due to the war; and a mini-census using a ten percent sample of the population was conducted on 24 April 1966. There are actually three separate censuses in the United Kingdom - in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, although they are often coordinated. From 1821 until 1911, the census included the whole of Ireland.
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Previous censuses[edit]
Published censuses[edit]
The census records which have been published relate to the occupants of each household on the date given below:
- United Kingdom Census 1801 - Tuesday, 10 March
- United Kingdom Census 1811 - Monday, 27 May
- United Kingdom Census 1821 - Monday, 28 May
- United Kingdom Census 1831 - Monday, 30 May
- United Kingdom Census 1841 - Sunday, 6 June
- United Kingdom Census 1851 - Sunday, 30 March
- United Kingdom Census 1861 - Sunday, 7 April
- United Kingdom Census 1871 - Sunday, 2 April
- United Kingdom Census 1881 - Sunday, 3 April
- United Kingdom Census 1891 - Sunday, 5 April
- United Kingdom Census 1901 - Sunday, 31 March
- United Kingdom Census 1911 - Sunday, 2 April
- National Registration Act 1939 - Friday, 29 September Second World War (Published 2 Nov 2015)
Unpublished censuses[edit]
Because the 100-year closure rule was established after the 1911 census, information in later censuses will not be released until the dates stated.
- United Kingdom Census 1921 - Sunday, 19 June (scheduled publication date 1 January 2022)
- United Kingdom Census 1931 - Sunday, 26 April (destroyed in a fire in 1942 which was not caused by enemy action and appears to have been an accident; although the scheduled publication date was 1 January 2032; the Scottish Census for this year survived as it was stored in Edinburgh) [1]
United Kingdom Census 1941- no census taken due to World War II.- United Kingdom Census 1951 - 8 April (scheduled publication date 1 January 2052)
- United Kingdom Census 1961 - 23 April (scheduled publication date 1 January 2062)
- United Kingdom Census 1966 - 24 April mini-census using a ten percent sample (publication date 1 January 2067)
- United Kingdom Census 1971 - 25 April (scheduled publication date 1 January 2072)
- United Kingdom Census 1981 - 5 April (scheduled publication date 1 January 2082)
- United Kingdom Census 1991 - 21 April (scheduled publication date 1 January 2092)
- United Kingdom Census 2001 - 29 April (scheduled publication date 1 January 2102)
- United Kingdom Census 2011 - 27 March (scheduled publication date 1 January 2112)