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Reading: Legal partnership status

Location Type: Unitary Authorities, ONS Geographic Code: E06000038

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Key Facts

All Residents 174,224
Male 86,842
Female 87,382
Households 67,683
Population Density (people/km2) 4,312.6
Table Codets002
Issued2022-12-13
Unit of MeasurePerson
Number of Response Options12

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in England and Wales by their legal partnership status. The estimates are at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Summary

Classifies a person according to their legal marital or registered civil partnership status on Census Day 21 March 2021.

It is the same as the 2011 census variable "Marital status" but has been updated for Census 2021 to reflect the revised Civil Partnership Act that came into force in 2019.

In Census 2021 results, "single" refers only to someone who has never been married or in a registered civil partnership.

Quality Statement

Separate estimates by opposite and same-sex partnerships for the marital status categories “Separated”, “Divorced/dissolved” and “Widowed/surviving partners” are not available. This is because quality assurance showed the figures for some of the categories were unreliable.

More information at the ONS website

Marital and civil partnership status: Total 141,358
Never married and never registered a civil partnership 64,334
Married or in a registered civil partnership 57,692
Married or in a registered civil partnership: Married 57,409
Married or in a registered civil partnership: Married: Opposite sex 57,040
Married or in a registered civil partnership: Married: Same sex 369
Married or in a registered civil partnership: In a registered civil partnership 283
Married or in a registered civil partnership: In a registered civil partnership: Opposite sex 137
Married or in a registered civil partnership: In a registered civil partnership: Same sex 146
Separated, but still legally married or still legally in a civil partnership 2,812
Separated, but still legally married or still legally in a civil partnership: Separated, but still married 2,788
Separated, but still legally married or still legally in a civil partnership: Separated, but still in a registered civil partnership 24
Divorced or civil partnership dissolved 10,390
Divorced or civil partnership dissolved: Divorced 10,363
Divorced or civil partnership dissolved: Formerly in a civil partnership now legally dissolved 27
Widowed or surviving civil partnership partner 6,130
Widowed or surviving civil partnership partner: Widowed 6,119
Widowed or surviving civil partnership partner: Surviving partner from civil partnership 11

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