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Dorset: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Unitary Authorities, ONS Geographic Code: E06000059

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Key Facts

All Residents 379,579
Male 184,413
Female 195,166
Households 169,258
Population Density (people/km2) 152.4
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 379,572
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh 4,305
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan 12
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified 2
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian 0
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian 3
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab 1
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British 25
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi 463
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian 0
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese 815
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 1
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino 447
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian 926
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian 27
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian 30
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese 129
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri 4
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean 20
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish 0
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian 23
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 7
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian 1
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese 14
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha) 537
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 41
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified 38
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East 6
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed 8
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani 242
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi 0
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh 0
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese 4
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan 97
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese 10
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani 3
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil 17
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai 293
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish 4
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese 27
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group 28
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background 592
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified 225
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British 19
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian 6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire 0
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 7
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian 6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian 36
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan 16
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian 105
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed 5
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African 24
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese 50
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan 6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian 4
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean 40
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group 12
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background 487
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified 11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British 85
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean 296
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 3
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 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mixed Black 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified 42
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian 22
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group 15
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups 4,437
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified 1
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian 11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab 19
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European 5
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified) 49
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian 20
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean 16
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian 3
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese 10
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White 22
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English 23
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 55
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African 9
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean 3
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European 100
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot 0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American 68
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian 12
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian 14
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian 10
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish 6
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 16
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican 6
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black 5
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish 13
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian 0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White 16
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan 0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed 220
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified 28
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian 30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese 3
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African 7
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American 29
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European 6
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish 5
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish 18
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot 1
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African 10
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab 44
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified) 1,635
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African 601
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean 1,011
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian 14
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern 33
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian 17
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean 12
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group 173
White 368,411
White: African unspecified 20
White: Albanian 14
White: Algerian 0
White: Arab 1
White: Argentinian 2
White: Armenian 5
White: Australian/New Zealander 300
White: Austrian 30
White: Belarusian 5
White: Belgian 34
White: Bosnian 1
White: Brazilian 43
White: Bulgarian 265
White: Colombian 3
White: Cornish 89
White: Croatian 5
White: Cypriot (part not stated) 3
White: Czech 61
White: Danish 49
White: Dutch 145
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British 356,181
White: Estonian 9
White: European Mixed 2,124
White: Finnish 29
White: French 347
White: Georgian 2
White: German 374
White: Greek 64
White: Greek Cypriot 22
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller 523
White: Hispanic or Latin American 59
White: Hungarian 148
White: Iranian 9
White: Irish 1,917
White: Israeli 1
White: Italian 243
White: Jewish 45
White: Kosovan 1
White: Kurdish 0
White: Latvian 68
White: Lithuanian 71
White: Maltese 23
White: Mixed Irish 103
White: Mixed White 14
White: Moldovan 3
White: North American 375
White: North Macedonian 8
White: Norwegian 38
White: Other Eastern European 270
White: Other Middle East 5
White: Other Mixed 123
White: Other North African 1
White: Other Traveller 57
White: Other White, White unspecified 404
White: Polish 1,496
White: Portuguese 241
White: Roma 161
White: Romanian 517
White: Russian 71
White: Serbian 8
White: Slovakian 111
White: Slovenian 9
White: South African 384
White: South American 19
White: Spanish 179
White: Swedish 80
White: Swiss 47
White: Turkish 76
White: Turkish Cypriot 8
White: Ukrainian 28
White: White African 113
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern 9
White: White Caribbean 8
White: Zimbabwean 17
White: Any other ethnic group 93
Other ethnic group 1,340
Other ethnic group: Afghan 1
Other ethnic group: African unspecified 5
Other ethnic group: African Asian 2
Other ethnic group: Albanian 5
Other ethnic group: Algerian 1
Other ethnic group: Arab 223
Other ethnic group: Armenian 3
Other ethnic group: Asian British 4
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi 8
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian 3
Other ethnic group: Brazilian 15
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian 25
Other ethnic group: Caribbean 6
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian 7
Other ethnic group: Chinese 14
Other ethnic group: Colombian 2
Other ethnic group: Cornish 16
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated) 3
Other ethnic group: Czech 0
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified 8
Other ethnic group: English 13
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 14
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European 97
Other ethnic group: Filipino 27
Other ethnic group: Greek 0
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot 4
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany 4
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American 110
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian 0
Other ethnic group: Iranian 35
Other ethnic group: Italian 6
Other ethnic group: Japanese 5
Other ethnic group: Jewish 37
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri 0
Other ethnic group: Kurdish 31
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian 5
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 12
Other ethnic group: Mexican 8
Other ethnic group: Moroccan 1
Other ethnic group: Muslim 2
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha) 60
Other ethnic group: North African 7
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 32
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European 12
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East 60
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed 16
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified 7
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani 0
Other ethnic group: Polish 23
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia 45
Other ethnic group: Portuguese 4
Other ethnic group: Punjabi 2
Other ethnic group: Roma 1
Other ethnic group: Romanian 12
Other ethnic group: Sikh 9
Other ethnic group: Slovakian 1
Other ethnic group: Somali 1
Other ethnic group: Somalilander 0
Other ethnic group: South American 16
Other ethnic group: Spanish 1
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan 1
Other ethnic group: Tamil 15
Other ethnic group: Thai 7
Other ethnic group: Turkish 72
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot 11
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese 4
Other ethnic group: White African 8
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group 151

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