Standing view · population · Slough
falling, held with established confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2025.
The crude birth rate in Slough fell from 14.4 per thousand residents in 2024 to 13.6 in 2025, and the general fertility rate to 63.3 live births per thousand women of childbearing age in 2024. There were 2,404 live births in 2024 and the total fertility rate was 1.93. Population rose from 166,739 in 2024 to 167,450 in 2025. Two measures moved the same way while the population grew, and the fertility rate remains high by the standards of the measure.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Slough. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Crude birth rate | 2024 | falling |
| General fertility rate (GFR) | 2024 | falling |
| Crude birth rate | 2025 | falling |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2024 | — |
| Live births | 2024 | — |
| Total fertility rate (TFR) | 2024 | — |
| Population | 2025 | — |