Welcome Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides services to allow users in UK higher and further education institutions to access data from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.

First time here?

If this is your first visit, you may wish to find out more about us, or you may wish to register to use census data now.

• Register
• Quick guide
• Data available from the Census Programme

Need Help?

If you don't find what you are looking for in the FAQs or help pages you can contact us via the help desk.

• Login help
• Help desk
• Search help
• FAQs
• Demonstration Movies
• What is RSS?

Do you know which data you want?

If you already know what type of data you want, we provide direct links to the Data Support Units who host the data, and to information about the data they hold. You can also use our Advanced Search facility to find the data you need.

• Data Support Units
• Census guides
• Advanced search

Anything else you'd like to know?

There's lots more we can tell you about the census, and here are a few things that might interest you.

• 2011 Census
• Census experts
• Census projects
• Census-related resources
• Historical and genealogical resources
• International census resources
• Modern census data
• Geographical Referencing Learning Resources (Geo-Refer)

How have you used census data?

• Do you have a case study?
• Do you have derived data?
• Do you have outputs or publications?
• Are you a census expert?