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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?

PolyGeo
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Dom McEwen
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    Data 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. – Erik Mar 01 '21 at 12:26
  • https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/32321/seeking-postcode-shapefiles-for-uk for the boundaries and worldpop for population count/density: https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/country?iso3=GBR – Spacedman Mar 01 '21 at 12:28
  • worldpop seems to provide data at a say 100m resolution not a postcode district resolution? – Dom McEwen Mar 01 '21 at 12:46
  • National Statics (UK) has this data https://data.gov.uk/dataset/72d8bf63-7cc2-48b6-8d97-a85d482bf29c/national-population-database (April 2020) – Mapperz Mar 01 '21 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:

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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.

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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. – Dom McEwen Mar 01 '21 at 12:45