I'm searching for a data set which contains the population of each postcode district (e.g SG1 or LE2) in the UK. I'm struggling to find this anywhere especially for free.
Is there anywhere I can find this data the more recent the better?
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3Data requests belong to OpenData.SE, sorry. Still, have you checked with official data sources? Maybe you have to create this data yourself from zip-areas and pop-density.– ErikCommented Mar 1, 2021 at 12:26
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gis.stackexchange.com/questions/32321/… for the boundaries and worldpop for population count/density: worldpop.org/geodata/country?iso3=GBR– SpacedmanCommented Mar 1, 2021 at 12:28
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worldpop seems to provide data at a say 100m resolution not a postcode district resolution?– Dom McEwenCommented Mar 1, 2021 at 12:46
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National Statics (UK) has this data data.gov.uk/dataset/72d8bf63-7cc2-48b6-8d97-a85d482bf29c/… (April 2020)– Mapperz ♦Commented Mar 1, 2021 at 14:39
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A search for "postcode district population" leads me to an FOI request which points me to table KS101EW in the Nomis census data.
I'm then about four clicks from this spreadsheet:
with 2011 census population. You didn't specify a population time point. This time next year you might get 2021 census population.
This is England and Wales only, so you'll have to get S and NI separately. They might be on Nomis somewhere.
answered Mar 1, 2021 at 12:36
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I was ideally looking for the most up to date data that I can find. 2011 should be suitable enough however. Commented Mar 1, 2021 at 12:45