Census 2021 neighbourhood profiles
Smaller than a council. Big enough to have a name.
7,264 neighbourhoods across 331 local authorities, each about 7,800 people — a large village, a small town, or a few streets of a city. Every one has its Census 2021 profile and the neighbourhoods elsewhere in England and Wales that are most statistically like it.
What a neighbourhood is here
The statistical area, not a line someone drew round a postcode.
These are ONS Middle layer Super Output Areas, the geography the Census is published at below council level. They are built to hold a similar number of people rather than to match a high street or a parish, so a name covers roughly the right place and not an exact boundary. ONS labels them “Barnet 012”; the readable names come from the House of Commons Library. Scotland and Northern Ireland publish their small-area statistics separately and are not covered.
Evidence ledger
Source and date are part of the record.
- All profile statisticsONS · Census 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0
- Neighbourhood namesHouse of Commons Library · MSOA Names, Open Parliament Licence
- Similarity between neighbourhoodsDerived from the Census tables above · method on the methodology page