{"id":549,"date":"2015-02-25T14:43:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning-new\/?page_id=549"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:20:38","slug":"demographics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/planning-policies\/demographics\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Population projections \u2013 all people<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th scope=\"col\">Area<\/th><th scope=\"col\">2013<\/th><th scope=\"col\">2018<\/th><th scope=\"col\">2023<\/th><th scope=\"col\">2028<\/th><th scope=\"col\">2033<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>East Devon<\/td><td>134,900<\/td><td>139,500<\/td><td>144,100<\/td><td>148,200<\/td><td>151,300<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Exeter<\/td><td>121,800<\/td><td>126,900<\/td><td>132,100<\/td><td>137,100<\/td><td>141,700<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mid Devon<\/td><td>78,700<\/td><td>82,000<\/td><td>85,300<\/td><td>88,200<\/td><td>90,600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>North Devon<\/td><td>93,800<\/td><td>96,600<\/td><td>99,300<\/td><td>101,600<\/td><td>103,400<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>South Hams<\/td><td>83,900<\/td><td>86,200<\/td><td>88,600<\/td><td>90,700<\/td><td>92,400<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Teignbridge<\/td><td>126,000<\/td><td>131,500<\/td><td>137,200<\/td><td>142,300<\/td><td>146,400<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Torridge<\/td><td>65,100<\/td><td>67,900<\/td><td>70,500<\/td><td>72,700<\/td><td>74,300<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>West Devon<\/td><td>53,900<\/td><td>55,500<\/td><td>56,800<\/td><td>57,700<\/td><td>58,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>DCC Area<\/td><td>758,100<\/td><td>786,100<\/td><td>814,000<\/td><td>838,400<\/td><td>858,100<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Projections are based on past trends and do not take account of District planning policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Devon County Council. Published under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/doc\/open-government-licence\/open-government-licence.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Government Licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"accordion-tabs-block\"><ul class=\"accordion\" id=\"block_acf-block-68c41e2304f08\" data-responsive-accordion-tabs=\"accordion medium-accordion large-accordion\" data-allow-all-closed=\"true\" data-multi-expand=\"true\"><li id=\"item-68c41e2304f08-0\" class=\"accordion-item\" data-accordion-item=\"\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"accordion-title\">Documents<\/a><div class=\"accordion-content\" data-tab-content><p><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/sites\/PublicDocs\/Planning\/_layouts\/15\/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=Rrn8yMFUqPRNBAwOby5C59yEVlZSAuf228VAyj605ZI%3d&amp;docid=0268389b761904204b9b206a9136608b4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DCC population and dwellings projections for the Exeter area<\/a>\u00a0Note: the projections included are based on past trends and do not take account of District planning policy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population projections \u2013 all people Area 2013 2018 2023 2028 2033 East Devon 134,900 139,500 144,100 148,200 151,300 Exeter 121,800 126,900 132,100 137,100 141,700 Mid Devon 78,700 82,000 85,300 88,200 90,600 North Devon 93,800 96,600 99,300 101,600 103,400 South Hams 83,900 86,200 88,600 90,700 92,400 Teignbridge 126,000 131,500 137,200 142,300 146,400 Torridge 65,100 67,900 70,500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-549","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:44:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6621,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/549\/revisions\/6621"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}