Oxfordshire Insight

The pattern of population change varies across the county

In 2021 the population of Oxfordshire was 725,314, an increase of 71,516 (+11%)  from 653,798 in 2011.

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has released the first results from the 2021 Census providing data at Local Authority level only, including population counts by 5-year age band and count of households. All data has been provided rounded to the nearest 100 and may not sum.

Introduction

Oxfordshire County Council carries out an annual update to housing-led population forecasts to support planning for school places, social care and other services. These differ from the population projections provided by ONS in that they:

Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar on population forecasts on 21st September 2021.

Bella Image (Senior Research Officer with responsibility for modelling and statistics, Oxfordshire County Council) talked through:

The charts below show the recorded ethnicities and first language (English/Other) of Primary and Secondary (national curriculum years 1-11) pupils who attend Oxfordshire schools, split by the District in which they live. The underlying data comes from the January 2021 School Census*.

Some key themes:

A new population bitesize is now available with data on residents born overseas and living in Oxfordshire in 1961 and 2011.