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County Durham: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Unitary Authorities, ONS Geographic Code: E06000047

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Key Facts

All Residents 522,068
Male 255,304
Female 266,764
Households 234,761
Population Density (people/km2) 234.5
Table Codets022
Issued2022-11-29
Unit of MeasurePerson
Number of Response Options288

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in England and Wales by ethnic group. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Summary

The ethnic group that the person completing the census feels they belong to. This could be based on their culture, family background, identity or physical appearance.

Respondents could choose one out of 19 tick-box response categories, including write-in response options.

Ethnic group (detailed): Total: All usual residents 522,060
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh 7,838
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan 19
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified 0
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian 3
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian 1
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab 19
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British 25
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi 300
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian 1
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese 2,838
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 5
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino 333
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian 2,148
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian 41
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian 124
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese 85
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri 11
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean 82
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish 24
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian 71
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 9
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian 5
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese 36
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha) 52
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 38
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified 40
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East 20
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed 14
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani 730
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi 4
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh 18
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese 4
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan 231
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese 30
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani 18
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil 40
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai 290
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish 21
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese 84
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group 24
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background 1,180
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified 491
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab 7
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British 48
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian 35
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Democratic Republic of the Congo 8
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean 4
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian 9
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian 46
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan 38
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian 288
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African 5
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali 4
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African 27
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese 18
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian 6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan 16
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean 69
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group 40
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background 555
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified 21
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British 146
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American 5
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean 284
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Ghanaian 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mixed Black 9
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian 5
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified 61
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed 5
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group 10
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups 4,949
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified 5
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian 7
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab 0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab 33
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European 9
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian 15
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified) 27
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British 1
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian 11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean 11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese 8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White 19
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English 10
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 45
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African 8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean 0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern 7
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European 93
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot 0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American 51
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian 7
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian 33
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian 8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish 5
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican 26
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black 1
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish 11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian 3
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White 12
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan 7
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East 7
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed 201
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified 63
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian 31
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African 6
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American 19
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European 5
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish 1
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish 35
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot 0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab 86
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified) 1,962
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African 914
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean 906
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian 3
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern 54
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian 16
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean 1
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group 134
White 505,464
White: African unspecified 9
White: Albanian 40
White: Algerian 1
White: Arab 3
White: Argentinian 5
White: Armenian 4
White: Australian/New Zealander 155
White: Austrian 16
White: Belarusian 7
White: Belgian 19
White: Bosnian 3
White: Brazilian 26
White: Bulgarian 95
White: Colombian 9
White: Cornish 14
White: Croatian 14
White: Cypriot (part not stated) 8
White: Czech 55
White: Danish 30
White: Dutch 141
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British 494,624
White: Estonian 11
White: European Mixed 1,579
White: Finnish 38
White: French 177
White: Georgian 3
White: German 329
White: Greek 180
White: Greek Cypriot 13
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller 775
White: Hispanic or Latin American 49
White: Hungarian 112
White: Iranian 17
White: Irish 1,384
White: Israeli 7
White: Italian 329
White: Jewish 67
White: Kosovan 2
White: Kurdish 0
White: Latvian 71
White: Lithuanian 135
White: Maltese 19
White: Mixed Irish 64
White: Mixed White 10
White: Moldovan 2
White: North American 423
White: North Macedonian 1
White: Norwegian 40
White: Other Eastern European 303
White: Other Middle East 8
White: Other Mixed 100
White: Other North African 4
White: Other Traveller 23
White: Other White, White unspecified 414
White: Polish 1,907
White: Portuguese 97
White: Roma 157
White: Romanian 425
White: Russian 120
White: Serbian 11
White: Slovakian 55
White: Slovenian 8
White: South African 188
White: South American 7
White: Spanish 153
White: Swedish 43
White: Swiss 14
White: Turkish 123
White: Turkish Cypriot 2
White: Ukrainian 43
White: White African 72
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern 13
White: White Caribbean 0
White: Zimbabwean 4
White: Any other ethnic group 55
Other ethnic group 2,074
Other ethnic group: Afghan 11
Other ethnic group: African unspecified 12
Other ethnic group: African Asian 3
Other ethnic group: Albanian 3
Other ethnic group: Algerian 5
Other ethnic group: Arab 825
Other ethnic group: Armenian 4
Other ethnic group: Asian British 2
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi 3
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian 0
Other ethnic group: Brazilian 4
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian 8
Other ethnic group: Caribbean 3
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian 1
Other ethnic group: Chinese 45
Other ethnic group: Colombian 1
Other ethnic group: Cornish 2
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated) 4
Other ethnic group: Czech 2
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified 9
Other ethnic group: English 9
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 17
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European 49
Other ethnic group: Filipino 10
Other ethnic group: Greek 7
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot 8
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany 6
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American 106
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian 10
Other ethnic group: Iranian 145
Other ethnic group: Italian 4
Other ethnic group: Japanese 6
Other ethnic group: Jewish 37
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri 4
Other ethnic group: Kurdish 87
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian 2
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 1
Other ethnic group: Mexican 12
Other ethnic group: Moroccan 2
Other ethnic group: Muslim 3
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha) 1
Other ethnic group: North African 24
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 17
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European 9
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East 35
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed 23
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified 18
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani 6
Other ethnic group: Polish 24
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia 22
Other ethnic group: Portuguese 3
Other ethnic group: Punjabi 6
Other ethnic group: Roma 4
Other ethnic group: Romanian 16
Other ethnic group: Sikh 79
Other ethnic group: Slovakian 5
Other ethnic group: Somali 0
Other ethnic group: Somalilander 0
Other ethnic group: South American 13
Other ethnic group: Spanish 5
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan 11
Other ethnic group: Tamil 33
Other ethnic group: Thai 17
Other ethnic group: Turkish 79
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot 7
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese 1
Other ethnic group: White African 1
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group 143

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