Area type
Non-metropolitan District
Population Density
923
Population growth
Gender ratio
0.97 male to female
english main language
90%
birth rate
10.0
death rate
8.9
Major religion
47% Christian
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The population of Welwyn Hatfield is 119,538 according to mid-2021 population figures published by the ONS. Welwyn Hatfield's population growth rate between mid-2020 and mid-2021 was per year. Welwyn Hatfield covers an area of 130 square kilometres (50 square miles) and has a population density of 923 people per square kilometre (km2), based on the latest population estimates taken in mid-2021.
According to the latest 2021 census, the population in Welwyn Hatfield is predominantly white (79%), with non-white minorities representing the remaining 21% of the population.
The median average age in Welwyn Hatfield in 2021 was 37.8, with over 18s representing 82.4% of the population. The sex ratio was 96.6 males to every 100 females. Compare average age by area.
The largest religious group in Welwyn Hatfield is Christians who account for 47% of the population.
English is spoken as the main language by 89.5% of people in Welwyn Hatfield, and spoken either well or very well by 9% of the population. 1.2% reported having poor English language skills, and the remaining 0.1% spoke no English at all.
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The population of Welwyn Hatfield is 119,538 according to mid-2021 population figures published by the ONS. In the year between mid-2020 and mid-2021, the population in Welwyn Hatfield grew by an estimated people, and in the ten years before mid-2021, the population grew by .
Welwyn Hatfield's population growth rate between mid-2020 and mid-2021 was , which is
Welwyn Hatfield covers an area of 130 square kilometres (50 square miles) and has a population density of 923 people per square kilometre (km2), based on the latest population estimates taken in mid-2021. That figure has by people per km2 over the past decade.
According to mid-year population estimates published by the ONS in 2019, males account for 49.1% of Welwyn Hatfield's 119,538 population, while females made up 50.9% of the total.
The sex ratio (the number of males for each female in a population) was 96.609 males to every 100 females in 2021. In England as a whole, the gender ratio was 96 males to every 100 females in 2021.
Age statistics collected by the ONS show the adult population of Welwyn Hatfield, that is how many people there are over the age of 18, is 98,518.
Welwyn Hatfield's age structure shows the working-age population to be 79,581 which is 66.6% of the population. People under the age of 16 represent 17.6% of the population, and over 65s represent 15.8% of the population. The percentage of the population that is of working-age has decreased over the last 10 years from to .
Welwyn Hatfield's age pyramid shows how the population is distributed by age and gender.
The median average age of someone in Welwyn Hatfield was 37.8 years in 2019.
Of the Welwyn Hatfield population over the age of 90, girls outnumber boys by 2.1 to 1.
Age | Male | Female | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00-01 | 80.6 | 83.8 | 82.2 |
| 01-04 | 79.9 | 83.1 | 81.5 |
| 05-09 | 76.0 | 79.2 | 77.6 |
| 10-14 | 71.0 | 74.2 | 72.6 |
| 15-19 | 66.0 | 69.3 | 67.7 |
| 20-24 | 61.0 | 64.3 | 62.7 |
| 25-29 | 56.0 | 59.3 | 57.7 |
| 30-34 | 51.1 | 54.3 | 52.7 |
| 35-39 | 46.2 | 49.4 | 47.8 |
| 40-44 | 41.4 | 44.5 | 43.0 |
According to the latest 2021 census, the population in Welwyn Hatfield is predominantly white (78.7%), with non-white minorities representing the remaining 21.3% of the population.
Asian people were the largest minority group in Welwyn Hatfield accounting for 8.8% of the population.
7,307 or 6% of the Welwyn Hatfield population are black according to the latest 2021 census.
In England more broadly the portion of the population that is white is 81%. 10% are Asian and 4% are Black.
Estimates of personal wellbeing in the UK are published by the ONS annually, with scores for anxiety, happiness, life satisfaction, and feeling that life is worthwhile. Overall scores are based on surveying a representative sample of the population and are scored out of 10 (.e.g for happiness 0 is 'not at all happy' and 10 is 'completely happy').
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According to the latest 2021 census, the most populous religious group within Welwyn Hatfield is Christians, accounting for 47.2% of the population.
Welwyn Hatfield has a Muslim population of 3,923 which is 3.3% of the population.
Compared to England as a whole, in England circa 46% of the population is Christian, 7% is Muslim, 2% is Hindu, and Buddhists, Sikhs and Jews each is around 1%. The remainder is split between people with no religion and those who decided not to identify a religion.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023. Data sources: ONS Local statistics