9.06am GMT

Good morning. Today at 9.30am the Office for National Statistics is going to release its second set of findings from the 2011 census for England and Wales. If you want to find out how many of us are mixed-race, where we were born, how many of us have a job, and whether people still like Star Wars enough to put their religion down as “Jedi”, this is the place to do it.

Today’s census data covers the following areas:

• Marital/civil partnership status.

• Living arrangements.

• Religion.

• Ethnicity.

• National identity.

• Country of birth.

• Languages spoken.

• Tenure (this relates to levels of home ownership and renting).

• Living arrangements.

• Number of rooms.

• Access to a car.

• Qualifications.

• Health (respondents were asked if they were in good health; long-term illness statistics will also be produced).

• The amount of unpaid care people are providing.

• Economic activity data.

The scope of the 2011 census meant the data had to be released in four waves. The ONS released its first set of figures from the census, covering population numbers, age, and gender, in July, revealing that the population of England and Wales increased by 3.7 million over the previous decade.

Here are details of key census data that has already been released. Here are some of the facts we have learned already:

• In 2011 there were 27.6 million men and 28.5 million women in England and Wales.

• The population has grown to 56.1 million from 52.4 million in 2001 - an increase of 7.1%. This was the largest growth in the population in England and Wales in any 10-year period since the census taking began, in 1801. Between 1991 and 2001 it went up by 1.6 million.

• The average population density was 371 people per square kilometre; however in London this figure was 5,200. If the London figures were excluded, the average population density for the rest of England and Wales was 321 people per square kilometre.

• Cornwall was the local authority where the greatest number of people recorded a second address. A total of 22,997 people usually resident elsewhere in England and Wales had a second address there which they used for 30 days or more each year.

The last two sets of figures from the 2011 census will be released in June and October next year, and will give a more detailed breakdown and cross-referencing of some of the same information.

The census is carried out every 10 years, with this most recent one taking place on 27 March 2011. The census forms themselves are kept confidential for 100 years.

Scotland and Northern Ireland hold their own censuses. Northern Ireland’s is out later today, and we’ll cover that as much as possible here too, while Scotland’s is out next week. Getting statistics for the whole UK is becoming trickier, as Simon Rogers writes here.

And in case you were wondering about that Jedi reference ... in 2001, in a country not so far away, a grassroots campaign apparently inspired by a question about religion being included for the first time in the main census resulted in 0.7% of respondents putting their religion down as Jedi: 0.7%, a bigger proportion than those who cited Buddhism, Judaism and Sikhism. Expecting that number to drop this time I am.

We’ll be covering today’s releases live here and analysing all the figures as we get them.