Editing Leicester (section)

===Population change===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:0; text-align:center; line-height:120%;"
|+Historic and projected [[Population growth]] in Leicester since 1901
|-
! Year
! 1901
! 1911
! 1921
! 1931
! 1939
! 1951
! 1961
! 1971
! 2001
! 2011
! 
! 2016
! 
! 2021
! 2026
! 2031
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Population
| 211,579
| 227,222
| 234,143
| 239,169
| 261,339
| 285,181
| 273,470
| 284,208
| 279,921
| 329,839
| 
| 348,343
| 
| 362,500
| 376,000
| 390,000
|-
| colspan="11" style="text-align:center;"|Source: A Vision of Britain through Time<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10042744&c_id=10001043&add=N |title=Leicester Leicestershire through time &#124; Population Statistics &#124; Total Population |access-date=28 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207174241/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10042744&c_id=10001043&add=N |archive-date=7 December 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| colspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|
| colspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|[[Office for National Statistics|ONS]]<ref>mid year estimate</ref>
| colspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|ONS Projections<ref>[[Office for National Statistics|ONS population projections 2014 base / projections uplifted by '21–1,800/'26-2,100/'36-2,500 given underestimation at 2016 – 2,250/]]</ref>
|}

The [[Office for National Statistics|ONS]] 2014 basis population projections indicate the city will be home to 400,000 inhabitants by around 2035.