Topic: 2021 census
Population analysis: Caymanians now ‘outnumbered’ on islands
For the first time in recorded history, Caymanians find themselves outnumbered in their homeland, with the total population topping 83,000.
Unemployment rate falls to 3% in first half of 2022
The Economics and Statistics Office has estimated an unemployment rate of just 3% in the first half of this year as the Cayman Islands reopened for tourism.
Editorial: The clock is ticking
Cayman’s census doesn’t just show where we have been, it shows were we are going – a graph stretching ever upwards like the hypothetical skyscrapers of the future. Some fear it; some welcome it.
Thousands more students pack into Cayman school system
With the potential for Grand Cayman to add more than 2,000 students over the next 10 years, and, in the absence of government plans to significantly expand government school capacity, the big question is: Where are we going to put all the kids?
New private schools expected to meet surging demand
The Cayman Islands needs a significant increase in school space, with the bulk of the growth expected to come from the private sector.
Better-educated workforce; Caymanians, men lag behind
The Cayman Islands’ population as a whole has become better educated over the past decade, according to the Cayman Islands’ 2021 Census of Population and Housing Report.
More cars than ever on school commutes
It’s the beginning of the new school year, and the increase in activity in Cayman Islands classrooms is only matched (almost) by the increase in roadway traffic during morning and afternoon commutes.
Women under-represented in highest paying jobs
As an educated and ambitious young woman, who has seen older female colleagues locked out of leadership roles, Jane is concerned that gender politics still plays an outsized role in Cayman firms.
Caymanians earn more amid complex workforce divisions
Caymanians are earning more on average than expatriates, although the data is heavily skewed by an influx of foreign labour to fill in the lowest paying sectors.
‘Onslaught’ of pleas for help amid cost-of-living crisis
Cayman’s charitable sector didn’t need the census to tell them that hundreds of families are suffering from ‘food insecurity’.
Rashford plan could ease child poverty in Cayman
Extending free school meals programmes through the summer holidays could help ease food insecurity for children in Cayman, charity leaders believe.
Generational divide in home ownership
Almost half of Cayman Islands residents currently own their own home, a dynamic which poses challenges for policymakers seeking to address access to affordable housing.
‘Caymanians’ hail from all over the world
Cayman Islands citizens hail from more than 90 different countries across the globe, according to data from the census.
Can Cayman succeed without population growth?
When Roy Bodden was born in 1945, the Cayman Islands population stood at just under 7,000. When he went away to school in Canada in the early 1960s, it had risen to 8,500.
Census: Population’s age distribution skewed favourably by expat workers
Cayman's reliance on foreign labour for more than half of the islands’ workforce means that the local working age population is much larger than the global average.
Lack of crime reporting a concern, says deputy premier
Statistics coming out of the 2021 census have shown that 31.8% of crimes in the 12 months leading up to the population count were not reported to police, a worrying figure for Deputy Premier Chris Saunders.
Premier: Census shows Cayman needs more careful, managed growth
Population growth numbers, revealed by the final 2021 census results, indicate that Cayman needs to move away from unplanned and unrestrained growth, Premier Wayne Panton said at a press conference on Thursday, 28 July.
Ageing society one of Cayman’s demographic challenges
The 2021 census put Cayman’s population at just below 70,000 people, about 26% more than during the last official count only 11 years earlier.
Cayman population could be as high as 72,000
The preliminary report of the 2021 census shows a total population of 69,656 but the actual may have been well higher if the non-participating households are taken into account.
Almost-complete census indicates population is below COVID estimate
Preliminary data from the almost-complete census indicates that Cayman's total population is several thousand people smaller than the estimate used to calculate the local vaccination rate.
ESO director urges compliance as 80% of census fieldwork completed
The 2021 census has crossed the six-week mark and, with 80% of fieldwork completed, Economics and Statistics Office Director Adolphus Laidlow has urged the public to continue to cooperate with enumerators.
Census count delayed while COVID protocols clarified
The Census 2021 count by enumerators visiting households on Grand Cayman has been delayed until Wednesday, 13 Oct., according to an Economics and Statistics Office statement issued Tuesday.
