GEOSTAT

Census grid 2021

The presentation of key topics from the 2021 Census on an EU-wide 1 km² grid is a major innovation. This facilitates a more flexible analysis, including at cross-border level.

The data are available in various formats, including:

• raster (GeoTIFF)
• GeoPackage (GPKG)
• GeoParquet (Parquet)
• auxiliary information in comma separated format (CSV)

The raster, GeoPackage, and GeoParquet files are in the European Terrestrial Reference System 1989 Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (ETRS989-LAEA, EPSG:3035) projection.

Datasets are available for the 13 variables as defined in EU regulation 1799/2018 for:

• sex (male and female)
• age (under 15 years, 15-64, 65 years and over)
• current activity status (number of employed persons), voluntary bases
• country / place of birth (place of birth in reporting country, place of birth in other EU country, place of birth elsewhere)
• place of usual residence (total population)
• place of usual residence one year prior to the census (usual residence unchanged, move within the reporting country, move from outside the reporting country)

Datasets/Services are provided according to the INSPIRE regulation and can be found at the INSPIRE Geoportal.

The census grid 2021 is available as printable maps: An atlas (A4 format) and a poster (A0 format). These maps focus on total population distribution by predominant age group.

Datasets available for download

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There are specific download rules for the datasets shown below which must be complied with. Permission to download and use these data is subject to these rules being accepted.

Datasets available for download