CENSUS 2021
Education explorer
Explore qualification levels across England and Wales, with regional and local-authority context from the Census 2021 education release.
Level 4+33.8%16.4m people
No qualifications18.2%8.8m people
Apprenticeship5.3%2.6m people
Students / schoolchildren20.4%11.5m
Qualification context
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Education over time
England & Wales Census comparison
ONS says the qualification categories are broadly comparable, but the 2021 question structure changed substantially, so decade differences should be interpreted cautiously.