Can you estimate how many people live in your local authority area? Could you guess what percentage of people near you identify with a particular religion? The answers may surprise you when you test how well you know your area.
Play the Census 2021 quiz
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You can share your score on social media and challenge your friends. If you play the quiz again, you will get a different selection of questions each time you play. Try it with different local authority areas too.
The quiz was first published on 2 December 2022. It was updated on 16 December 2022 to include some more questions on changes between 2011 and 2021.
We updated the quiz again on 3 April 2023, adding questions covering more topics from Census 2021.
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You can add this quiz to your own website by selecting the “embed this quiz” link at the start or end of the quiz.
Your users will then be able to choose which area they want to take the quiz for. If you want to set the quiz to a specific local authority area, choose the area you want before selecting the "embed this quiz" link.
When your users share their scores on social media, the link will direct them back to the page on your website where you embedded the quiz.
About the data
Our Census 2021 quiz uses data from our topic summary publications. You can get the data, as well as read about the topics covered and how categories have been grouped together, in our topic summaries guide.
We use statistical disclosure control, as explained in our Census 2021 QMI, to protect the confidentiality of census respondents.