0995e94d-6d42-40c1-8ed4-5090d82471e1 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 2026-01-09T12:47:50 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid UK gridded population 2011 based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2015 2017-11-22 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0995e94d-6d42-40c1-8ed4-5090d82471e1 10.5285/0995e94d-6d42-40c1-8ed4-5090d82471e1 doi: Reis, S., Liska, T., Steinle, S., Carnell, E., Leaver, D., Roberts, E., Vieno, M., Beck, R., Dragosits, U. (2017). UK gridded population 2011 based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0995e94d-6d42-40c1-8ed4-5090d82471e1 This dataset contains gridded human population with a spatial resolution of 1 km x 1 km for the UK based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2015 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 2015 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/10.5285/0995e94d-6d42-40c1-8ed4-5090d82471e1 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 Liska, T. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Steinle, S. Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) Susanne.Steinle@iom-world.org author Carnell, E. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0870-1955 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 Leaver, D. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Roberts, E. 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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9283-6467 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 Reis, S. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact 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 human population land cover GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Mapping Environmental risk otherRestrictions Registration is required to access this data 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., Liska, T., Steinle, S., Carnell, E., Leaver, D., Roberts, E., Vieno, M., Beck, R., Dragosits, U. (2017). UK gridded population 2011 based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0995e94d-6d42-40c1-8ed4-5090d82471e1 textTable grid 1000 English utf8 society -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 ASCII grid NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0995e94d-6d42-40c1-8ed4-5090d82471e1 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0995e94d-6d42-40c1-8ed4-5090d82471e1.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information 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 2015 vector data has been obtained from CEH. Output Area geography data (Extent of the Realm), were obtained for England & 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 2015 (with satellite data compiled prior to the release, whereas Census data was obtained in 2011. In the period in between, changes in residential areas will have emerged, which result in different urban or suburban land use data in LCM 2015 compared to the 2011 census (e.g. newly developed residential areas). While there is a difference between residential and workday populations in the Census dataset of 0.107%, the same population figure has been assumed for scaling. As a result, the final output file is consistent with the Census total population for the UK in 2011 within 0.0012% for residential and 0.0005% for workday populations respectively.