Census Data

Kirklees: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000034

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Key Facts

All Residents 433,216
Male 212,346
Female 220,870
Households 177,990
Population Density (people/km2) 1,060.3
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 433,209
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh 84,199
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan 260
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified 12
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian 19
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian 2
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab 23
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British 90
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi 1,065
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian 8
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese 1,526
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 31
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino 300
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian 22,739
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian 27
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian 259
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese 41
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri 991
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean 14
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish 316
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian 32
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 8
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian 148
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese 54
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha) 71
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 116
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified 24
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East 202
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed 54
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani 54,795
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi 55
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh 154
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese 7
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan 304
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese 4
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani 4
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil 20
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai 193
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish 8
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese 152
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group 71
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background 4,103
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified 2,019
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan 2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab 19
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British 106
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian 24
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire 11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Democratic Republic of the Congo 88
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 8
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean 60
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian 60
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian 21
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian 128
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan 57
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian 8
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 5
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan 20
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian 884
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified 7
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African 15
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone 17
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali 37
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander 1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African 46
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese 47
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan 28
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian 11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean 293
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group 73
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background 5,842
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified 80
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European 5
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British 1,029
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American 4
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean 4,318
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 46
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Ghanaian 4
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 40
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified 238
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed 13
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian 3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali 0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group 56
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups 13,583
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified 11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian 14
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab 3
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian 0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab 30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European 18
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian 83
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European 9
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified) 95
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British 19
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian 3
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean 42
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian 41
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese 8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian 5
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White 40
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English 25
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 46
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African 13
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean 12
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern 10
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European 89
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot 5
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American 23
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian 23
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian 27
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian 13
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish 8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 15
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican 6
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black 16
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish 26
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian 33
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White 27
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan 0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 16
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East 22
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed 553
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified 60
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani 62
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian 31
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African 10
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American 1
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European 10
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish 2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish 23
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot 4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African 3
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab 66
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified) 3,980
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African 1,035
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean 6,433
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian 15
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern 82
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian 60
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean 33
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group 240
White 318,971
White: African unspecified 12
White: Albanian 95
White: Algerian 4
White: Arab 7
White: Argentinian 2
White: Armenian 6
White: Australian/New Zealander 119
White: Austrian 11
White: Belarusian 3
White: Belgian 15
White: Bosnian 113
White: Brazilian 29
White: Bulgarian 128
White: Colombian 4
White: Cornish 4
White: Croatian 14
White: Cypriot (part not stated) 29
White: Czech 60
White: Danish 20
White: Dutch 46
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British 305,576
White: Estonian 15
White: European Mixed 1,793
White: Finnish 14
White: French 106
White: Georgian 5
White: German 153
White: Greek 122
White: Greek Cypriot 33
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller 163
White: Hispanic or Latin American 41
White: Hungarian 424
White: Iranian 19
White: Irish 2,335
White: Israeli 2
White: Italian 262
White: Jewish 20
White: Kosovan 4
White: Kurdish 7
White: Latvian 163
White: Lithuanian 260
White: Maltese 9
White: Mixed Irish 86
White: Mixed White 3
White: Moldovan 0
White: North American 202
White: North Macedonian 0
White: Norwegian 26
White: Other Eastern European 306
White: Other Middle East 17
White: Other Mixed 56
White: Other North African 5
White: Other Traveller 5
White: Other White, White unspecified 537
White: Polish 3,485
White: Portuguese 123
White: Roma 314
White: Romanian 792
White: Russian 105
White: Serbian 26
White: Slovakian 91
White: Slovenian 7
White: South African 118
White: South American 5
White: Spanish 110
White: Swedish 26
White: Swiss 11
White: Turkish 44
White: Turkish Cypriot 2
White: Ukrainian 56
White: White African 58
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern 7
White: White Caribbean 8
White: Zimbabwean 4
White: Any other ethnic group 89
Other ethnic group 6,511
Other ethnic group: Afghan 71
Other ethnic group: African unspecified 72
Other ethnic group: African Asian 4
Other ethnic group: Albanian 13
Other ethnic group: Algerian 5
Other ethnic group: Arab 1,915
Other ethnic group: Armenian 1
Other ethnic group: Asian British 20
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi 1
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian 4
Other ethnic group: Brazilian 16
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian 9
Other ethnic group: Caribbean 16
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian 10
Other ethnic group: Chinese 30
Other ethnic group: Colombian 0
Other ethnic group: Cornish 1
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated) 2
Other ethnic group: Czech 1
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified 5
Other ethnic group: English 17
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 25
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European 127
Other ethnic group: Filipino 43
Other ethnic group: Greek 10
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot 13
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany 17
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American 109
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian 51
Other ethnic group: Iranian 255
Other ethnic group: Italian 15
Other ethnic group: Japanese 10
Other ethnic group: Jewish 22
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri 418
Other ethnic group: Kurdish 1,267
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian 3
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 24
Other ethnic group: Mexican 3
Other ethnic group: Moroccan 14
Other ethnic group: Muslim 12
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha) 26
Other ethnic group: North African 32
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 61
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European 12
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East 145
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed 80
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified 15
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani 145
Other ethnic group: Polish 77
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia 13
Other ethnic group: Portuguese 6
Other ethnic group: Punjabi 54
Other ethnic group: Roma 20
Other ethnic group: Romanian 94
Other ethnic group: Sikh 565
Other ethnic group: Slovakian 4
Other ethnic group: Somali 1
Other ethnic group: Somalilander 0
Other ethnic group: South American 4
Other ethnic group: Spanish 8
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan 9
Other ethnic group: Tamil 11
Other ethnic group: Thai 20
Other ethnic group: Turkish 70
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot 3
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese 17
Other ethnic group: White African 3
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group 365

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