If youth is the future, then the best places to see it are Barking and Dagenham, Slough, Luton and Birmingham, which have the highest rates of people aged 0-19 in the population, ranging from 31, 5% for Barking to 28.5% for Birmingham. compared with 23.1% across England and Wales combined.
One in three people in North Norfolk are now 65 and over, making it the oldest retirement age in England and Wales.
Between 1981 and 2021, South Staffordshire had the largest increase in the percentage of over 65s in England or Wales. This age group made up just 10.1% of the population four decades ago. It is now 25.2%. Between 2011 and 2021, Richmondshire in North Yorkshire had the largest increase in the ratio of 65 and over, increasing from 17.5% of the population in 2011 to 23.5% in 2021.
The populations of Sunderland, Blackpool and Swansea have shrunk over the past decade and there have also been falls in the boroughs of central London, Westminster, Camden and the Royal boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC). Sunderland shrank by 0.6%, while Westminster and RBKC shrank by 6.8% and 9.5% respectively, although Westminster City Council believes this may be due to the fact that around 100,000 Londoners may have not been recorded, as the inventory took place during a period of exclusion and residents may have lived elsewhere.
The population of the UK’s largest city, London, grew by 7.7%, from 8.2 million to 8.8 million – slightly larger than Kuala Lumpur but smaller than Tehran.
Outside of London, the most densely populated areas are Luton, Portsmouth and Leicester. More than 5,000 people are crowded every square kilometer in these cities and towns.
The RBKC has the highest percentage of women of any place in England and Wales with 53.3% and the City of London has the highest percentage of men with 55.8%. Males outnumber females in just 11 boroughs, including Rutland, Richmondshire and Salford. Rushmoor and East Staffordshire offer exactly the same gender segregation.
