General health, Census 2021
Usual residents of England and Wales by how they described their general health, Census 2021 (table TS037).
Very good health: 48.4% of 59,597,542
28,827,308
Census Day, 21 March 2021
Verified against source, 31 October 2026, 11:15 UTCSource: Office for National Statistics (Census 2021, via Nomis). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
5 rows
| Category | Usual residents |
|---|---|
| Very good health | 28,827,308 |
| Good health | 20,046,220 |
| Fair health | 7,597,001 |
| Bad health | 2,412,358 |
| Very bad health | 714,655 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics (Census 2021, via Nomis)
- Check it yourself
- https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts037
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 31 October 2026, 11:11 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/output/census/2021/census2021-ts037.zipSHA-256 8d2764a6a8d333b890c3c1d0a0a7ae55c40841b324cca79baf4d3c563da809f4 · 3,029,973 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 31 October 2026, 11:15 UTC Run at 31 October 2026, 11:15 UTC; 5 of 5 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics (Census 2021, via Nomis); Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-31T11:11:37Z; 1 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 1 of 1 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 5 of 5 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 5 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 5 of 5 figures match exactly after downloading 1 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | ONS Census API agrees | 5 of 5 categories match England plus Wales from the ONS Census API (health_in_general); 2 to the person, the rest within 1 people, which is ONS's disclosure-control perturbation |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts037 – HTTP 200 |