Editing Northampton (section)

== Demography ==
[[File:Northampton (UK) population pyramid.svg|thumb|Northampton (local authority boundaries) population pyramid in 2021]]
The town's population recorded at each [[Census in the United Kingdom|census]] since 1801 was as follows:<ref>{{cite web |title=The Development of Northampton – British History Online |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol5/pp27-71#h3-0008 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1991 Census, Northamptonshire Observatory |url=http://www.northamptonshireobservatory.org.uk/dataexplorer/dataset.asp?datasetid=612&subsetid=1383&subjectid= |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130711012124/http://www.northamptonshireobservatory.org.uk/dataexplorer/dataset.asp?datasetid=612&subsetid=1383&subjectid= |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 July 2013 |access-date=3 July 2013 }}</ref><ref name="2011census">{{NOMIS2011|id=1946157159|title=Northampton Local Authority|access-date=11 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Cynthia |title=Northampton 1835–1985 Shoe Town, New Town |publisher=Phillimore |year=1931 |location=Chichester}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align:left"
|+Population of Northampton (local authority)
|-
! Year !! Population
|-
|1801 || 7,020
|-
|1811 || 8,427
|-
|1821 || 10,793
|-
|1831 || 15,351
|-
|1841 || 21,242
|-
|1851 || 26,657
|-
|1861 || 32,813
|-
|1871 || 41,168
|-
|1881 || 51,881
|-
|1891 || 61,012
|-
|1901 || 87,021
|-
|1911 || 90,064
|-
|1921 || 90,895
|-
|1931 || 92,341
|-
|1941 || No census
|-
|1951 || 104,432
|-
|1961 || 105,421
|-
|1971 || 133,800
|-
|1981 || 157,217
|-
|1991 || 180,617
|-
|2001 || 194,458
|-
|2011 || 212,069
|-
|2021 || 238,654
|}Since 1991, the population of the town has increased 17.41% from 180,617 to 212,069 in 2011, with a mean age in 2011 of 37.1 years, younger than the English average of 39.3 years.<ref name="2011census" /><ref>{{NOMIS2011|id=2092957699|title=England Country|access-date=8 February 2018}}</ref> The population breaks down into 104,168 males, and 107,901 females, with a population density of 2,630 per km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name="2011census" />

At the 2011 census, there were 91,484 dwellings, 88,731 of which are occupied households. Some 30.5% (27,048) of these were one person households, 61.1% (54,125) contained families, and 8.5% (7,558) fell into the other household type category. Home tenure was reported as 37.5% of 88,731 households mortgaged, 25.1% owned outright, 16.5% privately rented, 12.8% rented from council, 4.3% social rented, 1.3% private (other) rented, 1.3% shared ownership and 1.2% rent free.<ref name="2011census" />

75.6% of households had at least one car or van, 22.5% of residents over the age of 16 had no formal qualifications, and 15.8% have at least 5 GCSEs of grade C or above.<ref name="2011census" />
The median income for all workers (in 2012) was £21,193, slightly below both the county average of £21,560, and the England average of £21,794.<ref>{{cite web |title=2012 incomes |date=22 February 2013 |url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/ashe/annual-survey-of-hours-and-earnings-pension-tables/2012-provisional-results/index.html |access-date=11 July 2013}}</ref>

Between 2001 and 2011, the greatest nominal population increase was in the White, Other group from 3,780 to 13,825 – an increase of 10,045 – likely due to migration from Eastern Europe. The largest growth relative to their 2001 numbers was in the Black, African group, recording a 376% increase from 1,361 to 6,473. The largest nominal fall in population was in respondents reporting as White, British, there being 8,146 fewer such residents in 2011 than 10 years previous. The largest fall relative to their 2001 numbers was in the White, Irish group, their count falling 20.3% from 3,838 down to 3,060.

=== Ethnicity ===
In the 2011 census, Northampton was 84.5% White, 6.5% Asian, 5.1% Black, and 3.2% Mixed/multiple.<ref name="2011census" />
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! rowspan="3" |Ethnic Group
! colspan="10" |Year (local authority boundaries)
|-
! colspan="2" |1981 estimations<ref>{{cite journal |date=1985 |title=Ethnic minorities in Britain: statistical information on the pattern of settlement |url=https://jstor.org/stable/community.28327806 |journal=Commission for Racial Equality |pages=Table 2.2|last1= Equality|first1= Commission for Racial}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1991<ref name=":412">Data is taken from United Kingdom [http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/index.htm Casweb Data services] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215152146/http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/index.htm |date=15 December 2021 }} of the United Kingdom [http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/step1.cfm 1991 Census on Ethnic Data for England, Scotland and Wales] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405213012/http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/step1.cfm |date=5 April 2022 }} (Table 6)</ref>
! colspan="2" |2001<ref>{{cite web |title=Office of National Statistics; 2001 Census Key Statistics |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/local-authorities-ks06--ethnic-group.xls |access-date=7 September 2021 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2011<ref name=":36">{{cite web |title=2011 Census: Ethnic Group, local authorities in England and Wales |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/rft-table-ks201ew.xls |access-date=15 December 2021 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2021<ref>{{cite web |title=Ethnic group – Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS021/editions/2021/versions/1/filter-outputs/d2f0a39a-75b6-4995-b4bd-a5b68ff79027#get-data |access-date=29 November 2022 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}</ref>
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
![[White people in the United Kingdom|White]]: Total
!145,364
!95.2%
!169,864
!94.1%
!178,117
!91.6%
!179,238
!84.5%
!188,900
!79.2%
|-
|White: [[White British|British]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|170,499
|87.7%
|162,353
|76.6%
|152,516
|63.9%
|-
|White: [[White Irish|Irish]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|3,838
|2%
|2,911
|1.4%
|2,460
|1.0%
|-
|White: [[White Gypsy or Irish Traveller|Gypsy or Irish Traveller]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|149
|
|257
|0.1%
|-
|White: Roma
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|1,157
|0.5%
|-
|White: [[Other White|Other]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|3,780
|1.9%
|13,825
|6.5%
|32,510
|13.6%
|-
![[British Asian|Asian or Asian British]]: Total
!–
!–
!5,600
!3.1%
!7,643
!3.9%
!13,751
!6.5%
!18,741
!7.9%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: [[British Indians|Indian]]
|–
|–
|2593
|
|3,333
|
|5,328
|
|7,859
|3.30%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: [[British Pakistanis|Pakistani]]
|–
|–
|513
|
|795
|
|1,536
|
|2,439
|1.00%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: [[British Bangladeshis|Bangladeshi]]
|–
|–
|1198
|
|1,768
|
|3,367
|
|4,452
|1.90%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: [[British Chinese|Chinese]]
|–
|–
|690
|
|1,278
|
|1,705
|
|1,418
|0.60%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: Other Asian
|–
|–
|606
|
|469
|
|1,815
|
|2,573
|1.10%
|-
![[Black British people|Black or Black British]]: Total
!–
!–
!4,098
!2.3%
!4,643
!2.4%
!10,741
!5.1%
!18,447
!7.70%
|-
|Black or Black British: [[British African-Caribbean people|African]]
|–
|–
|385
|
|1,361
|
|6,473
|
|12,970
|5.40%
|-
|Black or Black British: [[British African-Caribbean people|Caribbean]]
|–
|–
|2,701
|
|2,822
|
|2,946
|
|3,087
|1.30%
|-
|Black or Black British: [[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom|Other Black]]
|–
|–
|1012
|
|460
|
|1,322
|
|2,390
|1.00%
|-
![[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed or British Mixed]]: Total
!–
!–
!–
!–
!3,369
!1.7%
!6,849
!3.2%
!8,639
!3.60%
|-
|Mixed: White and Black Caribbean
|–
|–
|–
|–
|1,693
|
|3,149
|
|3,508
|1.50%
|-
|Mixed: White and Black African
|–
|–
|–
|–
|272
|
|1,012
|
|1,374
|0.60%
|-
|Mixed: White and Asian
|–
|–
|–
|–
|748
|
|1,286
|
|1,687
|0.70%
|-
|Mixed: Other Mixed
|–
|–
|–
|–
|656
|
|1,402
|
|2,070
|0.90%
|-
!Other: Total
!–
!–
!1,005
!0.6%
!686
!0.4%
!1,490
!0.7%
!3,924
!1.6%
|-
|Other: Arab
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|543
|
|575
|0.2%
|-
|Other: Any other ethnic group
|–
|–
|1,005
|0.6%
|686
|0.4%
|947
|
|3,349
|1.4%
|-
!Ethnic minority: Total
!7,355
!4.8%
!10,703
!5.9%
!16,341
!8.4%
!32,831
!15.5%
!49,751
!20.8%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
!Total
!152,719
!100%
!180,567
!100%
!194,458
!100%
!212,069
!100%
!238,651
!100%
|}

=== Religion ===
In terms of religion, 48.7% of residents described themselves as Christian, 35.7% as irreligious, 5.6% as Muslim, 1.9% as Hindu, 0.6% as other religions, 0.5% as Sikh, 0.4% as Buddhist and 0.1% as Jewish. 6.5% failed to report any affiliation.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! rowspan="2" |Religion
! colspan="2" |2001<ref>{{cite web |title=KS007 – Religion – Nomis – 2001 |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/ks007 |access-date=18 October 2022 |website=www.nomisweb.co.uk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2011<ref>{{cite web |title=KS209EW (Religion) – Nomis – 2011 |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks209ew |access-date=18 October 2022 |website=www.nomisweb.co.uk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2021<ref>{{cite web |title=TS030 – Religion – Nomis – Official Census and Labour Market Statistics |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts030 |access-date=10 May 2023 |website=www.nomisweb.co.uk}}</ref>
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
!Holds religious beliefs
!141,432
!72.7%
!135,433
!63.9%
!137,892
!57.8%
|-
|[[File:Gold_Christian_Cross_no_Red.svg|26x26px]] [[Christians|Christian]]
| align="right" |132,791
| align="right" |68.3%
| align="right" |119,937
| align="right" |56.6%
|116,119
|48.7%
|-
|[[File:Dharma_Wheel.svg|20x20px]] [[Buddhism|Buddhist]]
| align="right" |669
| align="right" |0.3%
| align="right" |924
| align="right" |0.4%
|896
|0.4%
|-
|[[File:Om.svg|21x21px]] [[Hinduism|Hindu]]
| align="right" |2,228
| align="right" |1.1%
| align="right" |3,393
| align="right" |1.6%
|4,510
|1.9%
|-
|[[File:Star_of_David.svg|23x23px]] [[Jews|Jewish]]
| align="right" |322
| align="right" |0.2%
| align="right" |273
| align="right" |0.1%
|224
|0.1%
|-
|[[File:Star_and_Crescent.svg|20x20px]] [[Muslim]]
| align="right" |4,028
| align="right" |2.1%
| align="right" |8,806
| align="right" |4.2%
|13,350
|5.6%
|-
|[[File:Khanda.svg|24x24px]] [[Sikhism|Sikh]]
| align="right" |736
| align="right" |0.4%
| align="right" |1,063
| align="right" |0.5%
|1,292
|0.5%
|-
|Other religion
| align="right" |658
| align="right" |0.3%
| align="right" |1,037
| align="right" |0.5%
|1,501
|0.6%
|-
!''(No religion and Religion not stated)''
! align="right" |53,026
! align="right" |27.3
! align="right" |76,636
! align="right" |36.1%
!100,774
!42.2%
|-
|[[Irreligion|No religion]]
| align="right" |37,132
| align="right" |19.1%
| align="right" |62,404
| align="right" |29.4%
|85,273
|35.7%
|-
|Religion not stated
| align="right" |15,894
| align="right" |8.2%
| align="right" |14,232
| align="right" |6.7%
|15,501
|6.5%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
!Total population
! align="right" |194,458
! align="right" |100%
! align="right" |212,069
! align="right" |100%
!238,666
!100%
|}