Facts and figures about Doncaster

How well do you know Doncaster? Below are some useful facts and figures about our City, along with useful links to websites to search a wide range of Doncaster statistics.

Population

  • In 2021, the population of Doncaster was 308,108. This was an increase of 6,200 (or 2%) from the previous census in 2011.

  • 20% of residents in Doncaster are classed as disabled under the Equality Act. This is slightly higher than the national average of 17%

  • 19% of Doncaster residents are under 16 years old; 62% are aged 16 to 64 years old; 19% are 65 and over; This is about the same as the national average.

  • 7% of residents in Doncaster are from a minority ethnic group (not white). This is a lot lower than the national average of 19%

Education

  • Doncaster has 98 primary schools, 20 secondary schools and 6 special schools

  • 23% of residents in Doncaster are qualified to Level 4 (degree or other higher education), and 39% to at least Level 3 (A levels or equivalent). This is a lot lower than the national averages of 34% at Level 4 and 53% at Level 3.

Employment and Housing

  • 74% of working-age adults (aged 16 to 64) in Doncaster are in employment. This is slightly lower than the national average of 76%.
  • 63% of households own their own homes (including with a mortgage), which is similar to the national average of 62%

Want to know more?

You can find some headline facts and figures about Doncaster: 

There’s a wealth of open-source data available covering a wide range of different themes – here is a selection of sites that you could find useful.  

Government statistics [LA]

www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics

The government publishes a wide range of statistics at LA-level, covering education, health, economy, crime, demographics and much more.
The easiest way to interrogate this data is to find the “View or create your own tables link” (this feature may not be available on all releases), then select the appropriate table and check that it includes the geographic levels, indicators and filters that you need, then “Create your own table”. This allows you to build a table showing Doncaster, other LAs as required and regional and national averages, over a specified time period for a range of indicators. Once you have created your table, if you have multiple variables then you can use the “Move and reorder table headers” button to restructure the table.

Some useful releases are listed below, and other topic areas can be found on the link above:
Education statistics
• Pupil absence
• Exclusions and suspensions
• Elective home education
• Special educational needs
• Schools, pupils and their characteristics
• Early Years foundation stage profile
• Key stage 1 and Phonics
• Key stage 2
• Key stage 4
• Key stage 4 destinations
• A level and other 16-to-18 results
• 16-to-18 destinations
• Level 2 and 3 attainment (age 16 to 25)
• NEET and participation in education and training

Consumer data research centre (CRDC) [LSOA]

https://mapmaker.cdrc.ac.uk/

CRDC provides maps showing a range of different measures at LSOA level. Common measures to look at are Deprivation indices (IMD) and Output Area Classifications (which segment the population into different demographic categories). You can change the measure being looked at with the menus across the top of the screen.

Nomis [LA] [Ward] [Parish] [LSOA*]

www.nomisweb.co.uk

Nomis is a service provided by Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics. On this website, we publish statistics related to population, society and the labour market at national, regional and local levels. These include data from current and previous censuses.
* Note: LSOA-level data is not available for all datasets

Nomis have a few of ready-made profile, below are 3 of the most useful:
• Labour Market Profile - Doncaster
• 2021 Census Area Profile – Doncaster
• 2021 Census Area Profile - England (For comparison)

You can query majority of the data in Nomis, below is a link to the full catalogue to browse to the required dataset in raw data format:
• Query data – Dataset selection

Instructions to get the export data:
  • Select the dataset you want, eg Census 2021 then TS003 - Household composition. This will then open a step-by-step guide to get the data out you need to go down the left-hand side list:
  • Geography – eg select some on drop down list of 2021 super output areas - lower layer, opens new page, select Doncaster from list, then tick all, then click next or go down on to next item on left
  • (next item in list) – In this example is Household composition, This is where you select the options of the data e.g. totals and specific breakdowns of the data, click what you want and then next to move on
  • Percent – Do you want just the value, percent of both, select which then click Next
  • Summary of selections – Will show what you have selected in above steps and more detail on dataset, review and go back if not correct on move on to Next
  • Format / Layout selection – select format required (most will be Excel), then select how you may want columns/rows to show and any other options available, then next
  • Download data – May take a few seconds but should then show the file to click and download

Police data [LSOA]

https://data.police.uk/

This is the site for open data about crime and policing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. You can download street-level crime, outcome, and stop and search data in clear and simple CSV format and explore the API containing detailed crime data and information about individual police forces and neighbourhood teams. You can also download data on police activity, and a range of data collected under the police annual data requirement (ADR) including arrests and 101 call handling.

All the data on this site is made available under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Instructions to get the export data:
  • Click data tab at top (right of home) or this link
  • This will open custom download tab you will want to make a few selection on this page:
  • Data range – select which months you want from and to there is around 1-2 months delay in latest month showing (if want older data you will need to look in Archive but this are big downloads for the months that will require more formatting to get to Doncaster)
  • Forces – Select South Yorkshire Police in most cases or other force or all if looking to compare
  • Datasets – Select if you want Crime (the main one to use), outcome (latest category know of the crime data) or Stop and search data (No locations) or tick all
  • Generate file – click generate file which will take you to another page to click download to get the file

Tips for using the data:
  • Download will be a zipped compressed folder but just navigate as you would any folder
  • Each month (if selected more than one) will have its own folder so may require merging files manually
  • Each dataset will also be its own file e.g. if selected all 3 means there will be 3 files in each month folder
  • Stop and search dataset does not have any location data
  • Outcomes data – This will contain latest outcome category of the data in the crime file
  • For Crime and outcomes files use LSOA Name to identify which data is for Doncaster, the LSOA will start with Doncaster in the name and the code, eg Doncaster 009D
  • Crime data included following categories: Violence and sexual offences, Anti-social behaviour, Bicycle theft, Burglary, Criminal damage and arson, Other theft, Possession of weapons, Public order, Shoplifting, Vehicle crime, Other crime, Drugs, Robbery, Theft from the person

Public Health profiles [LA]

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/health-profiles

The local authority health profiles provide an overview of health for each local authority in England. They pull together existing information and data on a range of indicators for local populations, highlighting issues that can affect health in each locality. The aim of the profile is to help local government and health services make plans to improve the health of their local population and reduce health inequalities.

The 'Health profile for England' focuses on national health trends, while Local Health provides health information for small areas within local authorities, enabling users to explore differences at a more local level.

Revisions to the content of the health profiles are listed in the health profiles revisions log (Excel).

Indicators are sourced from the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) unless otherwise stated.