Population forecasts

Kent County Council Housing Led Forecasts

It is important to consider how the Kent population is going to change in the future in order to plan services. These forecasts take account of the distribution of future housing across the county rather than being a projection based on past trends. Here are the results of a housing-led forecast based on the assumption that 222,757 dwellings will be built between 2020 and 2040 in the county (Kent County Council area plus Medway Unitary Authority).

The following toolkit enable you to extract forecasts for Kent as a whole or for individual Kent districts for any time between 2011 and 2040.

Population forecasts for any age group can be accessed via the interactive population forecast toolkit (XLSM, 4.2 MB).

How to use the toolkit

• The toolkit is best viewed on desktop computer.
• If prompted to enable or disable macros, please choose to enable.
• If you are unable to use Excel, download the KCC Housing LED Forecast summary (PDF, 1.5 MB).

Central government population projections

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces population projections for all regions in England. Because these projections don't take future house building programs into account, KCC prefer to use their own in-house forecasts.

However, Sub National Population Projections (PDF, 385.8 KB) are the only source of national information. We therefore use them when we want to compare Kent's future population growth alongside the national average, or other areas within England.

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