In the 2021 census for Wales the population was 3,107,494 which was an increase from 2011 of approximately 44,000 or 1.4%. There were 1,347,114 households with at least 1 resident, and this is an increase of 44,438 or 3.4%. Additionally, 63.1% of households were single family homes, 31.9% one person households and 5% were multiple family or other households. The most common household was married/civil partnership with dependants at 11.9% and second was the same except with no dependants at 10.8%. The largest increase was cohabiting couples with no dependants with an increase of 60.5% from 6,613 to 10,615. Married couples decreased from 46.7% in 2011 to 43.8% in 2021 and the largest increase was never married by 3.7% from 33.5% to 37.3%. Divorce rates rose from 9.7% to 9.9%.[8]
Although there was increase in population from 2011 to 2021 there were more deaths than births for Welsh born in Wales. This is due to an increase in immigration. The immigration population increased approximately by 55,000 and of those numbers Romanians had the highest percentage increase. Polish immigrants remain the highest group with 24,832 or 0.8% of the population, in second was India with 13,000 and in total 6.9% of residents were born outside the UK. Additionally in 2011 27.3% or 837,000 residents were born outside of Wales, this increased to 29.1% or 905,000 of this increase 23,000 were from England.[8]
