Population numbers and demographics

The 2021 census recorded 22,997 people living in the area covered by the City of Durham Parish. 11,627 of these were girls or women, and 11,370 were boys or men. This is an increase of 11.5% since the 2011 census, when there were 20,216 people living in the area that would become the Parish.

We have uploaded census data for the DH1 postcode area in Open Document Spreadsheet (.ods) format. This shows the number of women and men living in each postcode as at the census date, 21 March 2021. The table also shows which ward and parish the postcode falls in.