Population change since 2000

population_change_since_2000DemographyFloat · percent

Indicates the relative change in resident population in the surrounding postcode since 2000, expressed as a fraction (0.45 means a 45 percent increase, -0.05 means a 5 percent decline). Known or imputed for 29,530 postcodes — 87.0% of the postcodes Faraday knows.

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At a glance

Coverage today
87.0%
Typical coverage
87.0%
Postcodes with a value
29.5K
Median
0.04 percent
Most values come
from the area
Latest collection
Dec 31, 2018

Distribution

n = 29,530

Share of postcodes with a known value in each band. The middle 50% falls between -0.12 and 0.22 percent, shaded darkest.

P10
-0.3
P25
-0.12
Median
0.04
P75
0.22
P90
0.58

P10 means 10% of postcodes have a value at or below this one, and P90 means 90% do. P25 and P75 bound the middle half. The median is the middle: half are below it, half above.

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Coverage

Latest collection: 41,117 postcodes

Coverage by state

Percentage of postcodes in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

87.0% today

Share of postcodes holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.

Dec 18Jan 25May 26

How we arrive at a value

Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.

On the person — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
From address — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
From geography — 100%
Estimated from other people in their postcode or region.

Coverage, in context

Where 87.0% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 11%max 100%

Higher coverage than 14% of postcode-level attributes in the catalog

Freshness

How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of postcodes in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.

Dec 31, 2018
latest collection
93 months 9 days
since the latest collection
Dec 18

Contribution ledger

2 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Dec 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2024-12-312026-09-1641,117e2d21660…
2023-12-312026-10-0841,045263a35d2…

Technical details

API name
population_change_since_2000
Category
fig/demography
Type · unit
Float · percent
Statistical type
ratio
Allowed values
null
Derivations
null
Directionality
Higher number means stronger population growth since 2000 in the surrounding postcode.
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "population_change_since_2000": 0.0351
  }
}