61f10c74-8c2c-4637-a274-5fa9b2e5ce44 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2026-01-09T12:47:32 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid UK gridded population based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2007 2016-02-15 publication 2016-02-05 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/61f10c74-8c2c-4637-a274-5fa9b2e5ce44 10.5285/61f10c74-8c2c-4637-a274-5fa9b2e5ce44 doi: Reis, S., Steinle, S., Carnell, E., Leaver, D., Vieno, M., Beck, R., Dragosits, U. (2016). UK gridded population based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2007. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/61f10c74-8c2c-4637-a274-5fa9b2e5ce44 [THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset contains gridded population with a spatial resolution of 1 km x 1 km for the UK based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2007 input data. Data on population distribution for the United Kingdom is available from statistical offices in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland and provided to the public e.g. via the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Population data is typically provided in tabular form or, based on a range of different geographical units, in file types for geographical information systems (GIS), for instance as ESRI Shapefiles. The geographical units reflect administrative boundaries at different levels of detail, from Devolved Administration to Output Areas (OA), wards or intermediate geographies . While the presentation of data on the level of these geographical units is useful for statistical purposes, accounting for spatial variability for instance of environmental determinants of public health requires a more spatially homogeneous population distribution. For this purpose, the dataset presented here combines 2011 UK Census population data on Output Area level with Land Cover Map 2007 land-use classes 'urban' and 'suburban' to create a consistent and comprehensive gridded population data product at 1 km x 1 km spatial resolution. The mapping product is based on British National Grid (OSGB36 datum). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/61f10c74-8c2c-4637-a274-5fa9b2e5ce44 Reis, S. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Reis, S. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2428-8320 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Steinle, S. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Carnell, E. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Leaver, D. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Vieno, M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7741-9377 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Beck, R. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Dragosits, U. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Population Distribution - Demography theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Mapping Environmental risk Pollution and Environmental Risk otherRestrictions Superseded otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Reis, S., Steinle, S., Carnell, E., Leaver, D., Vieno, M., Beck, R., Dragosits, U. (2016). UK gridded population based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2007. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/61f10c74-8c2c-4637-a274-5fa9b2e5ce44 textTable grid 1000 English utf8 society 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 ASCII grid NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Census data from the Office of National Statistics have been downloaded as CSV files. Land Cover Map 2007 vector data has been obtained from CEH. Output Area geography data (Extent of the Realm), were obtained for England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. The processing steps are detailed in the Supporting Documentation. To ensure consistency of the final product, total population numbers were compared, at each processing step, with the official 2011 Census totals. In particular due to the clipping process, which merges data on different geographies, areas where population data are provided on administrative boundaries and areas which contain urban, suburban and urban industrial land use parcels, some inconsistencies are inevitable. In addition, the Land Cover Map has been generated in 2007 (with satellite data compiled prior to the release, whereas Census data was obtained in 2011. In the period in between, additional residential areas will have emerged, which are not currently included in the land use data provided by LCM 2007. For the dataset, the discrepancy between total Census 2011 population figures and the resulting 1 km x 1 km gridded total accumulates to 0.47%. This value is applied as a scaling factor to the gridded dataset to generate a data product consistent with the Census total population for 2011.