Norfolk: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E10000020

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Key Facts

All Residents	916,120
Male	449,251
Female	466,869
Households	404,341
Population Density (people/km2)	170.2

Related Census Areas
Is within
- England
  Country
- East of England
  Regions
Borders with
- Cambridgeshire
  Counties
- Lincolnshire
  Counties
- Suffolk
  Counties
Overlaps with
- Stiffkey
  Civil Parishes
- Wisbech
  Built Up Areas
- Elm and Emneth
  Built Up Areas
- Christchurch (Fenland)
  Built Up Areas
- Bungay
  Built Up Areas
- Brandon (West Suffolk)
  Built Up Areas
Contains
- Breckland
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- Broadland
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- Great Yarmouth
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- North Norfolk
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- Norwich
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- South Norfolk
  Non-metropolitan Districts

Table Code	ts022
Issued	2022-11-29
Unit of Measure	Person
Number of Response Options	288

Description
Data
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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	916,125
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh	18,985
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan	136
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified	6
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian	5
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian	11
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab	25
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British	66
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	1,480
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian	10
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese	3,666
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	7
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino	2,238
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian	6,577
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian	65
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian	126
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese	189
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri	13
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean	106
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish	63
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian	105
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	54
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian	3
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese	80
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	198
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	161
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	178
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East	58
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed	43
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani	1,136
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi	5
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh	18
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese	19
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan	777
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese	22
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani	24
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil	173
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai	706
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish	90
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese	261
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group	85
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background	5,891
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified	2,761
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan	39
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab	9
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British	157
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian	28
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire	6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Democratic Republic of the Congo	111
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	17
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean	61
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian	34
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian	19
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian	296
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan	105
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian	11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	33
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black	2
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan	5
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian	1,221
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified	21
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed	11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African	17
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese	107
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone	16
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali	38
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander	8
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African	64
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese	34
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian	7
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan	60
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian	14
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean	337
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group	242
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background	2,483
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified	123
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European	30
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British	604
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American	121
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean	1,184
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	33
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	11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mixed Black	17
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian	12
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified	136
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed	11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	14
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali	1
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group	186
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups	15,083
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified	30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian	23
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab	4
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian	13
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab	55
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European	22
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian	68
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European	28
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified)	277
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British	11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian	74
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean	37
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian	17
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese	21
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian	5
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White	68
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English	52
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	157
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African	25
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean	12
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern	15
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	319
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot	14
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American	294
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian	22
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian	42
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian	16
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish	26
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	54
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican	51
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black	17
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish	35
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian	0
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White	88
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan	15
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East	36
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed	911
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified	132
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani	8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	59
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese	68
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African	19
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American	55
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European	12
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish	26
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish	44
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot	12
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African	35
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab	130
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified)	4,389
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African	3,210
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean	3,200
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian	30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern	117
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian	28
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean	17
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group	530
White	867,156
White: African unspecified	26
White: Albanian	206
White: Algerian	8
White: Arab	13
White: Argentinian	22
White: Armenian	21
White: Australian/New Zealander	540
White: Austrian	44
White: Belarusian	20
White: Belgian	76
White: Bosnian	6
White: Brazilian	214
White: Bulgarian	1,167
White: Colombian	9
White: Cornish	56
White: Croatian	36
White: Cypriot (part not stated)	35
White: Czech	149
White: Danish	132
White: Dutch	398
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British	814,672
White: Estonian	84
White: European Mixed	8,660
White: Finnish	78
White: French	464
White: Georgian	7
White: German	833
White: Greek	385
White: Greek Cypriot	183
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller	1,113
White: Hispanic or Latin American	274
White: Hungarian	848
White: Iranian	23
White: Irish	4,049
White: Israeli	8
White: Italian	729
White: Jewish	136
White: Kosovan	42
White: Kurdish	28
White: Latvian	1,290
White: Lithuanian	5,184
White: Maltese	72
White: Mixed Irish	227
White: Mixed White	43
White: Moldovan	46
White: North American	1,919
White: North Macedonian	15
White: Norwegian	86
White: Other Eastern European	2,423
White: Other Middle East	32
White: Other Mixed	280
White: Other North African	21
White: Other Traveller	153
White: Other White, White unspecified	3,179
White: Polish	6,505
White: Portuguese	3,072
White: Roma	756
White: Romanian	2,622
White: Russian	386
White: Serbian	27
White: Slovakian	369
White: Slovenian	54
White: South African	651
White: South American	43
White: Spanish	605
White: Swedish	136
White: Swiss	73
White: Turkish	341
White: Turkish Cypriot	19
White: Ukrainian	110
White: White African	305
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern	35
White: White Caribbean	36
White: Zimbabwean	35
White: Any other ethnic group	212
Other ethnic group	6,527
Other ethnic group: Afghan	39
Other ethnic group: African unspecified	84
Other ethnic group: African Asian	3
Other ethnic group: Albanian	22
Other ethnic group: Algerian	6
Other ethnic group: Arab	1,428
Other ethnic group: Armenian	4
Other ethnic group: Asian British	8
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	7
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian	10
Other ethnic group: Brazilian	72
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian	86
Other ethnic group: Caribbean	14
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian	12
Other ethnic group: Chinese	76
Other ethnic group: Colombian	10
Other ethnic group: Cornish	5
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated)	21
Other ethnic group: Czech	2
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	35
Other ethnic group: English	35
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	55
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	449
Other ethnic group: Filipino	116
Other ethnic group: Greek	33
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot	68
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany	24
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American	437
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian	20
Other ethnic group: Iranian	173
Other ethnic group: Italian	22
Other ethnic group: Japanese	11
Other ethnic group: Jewish	108
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri	0
Other ethnic group: Kurdish	334
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian	127
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	45
Other ethnic group: Mexican	38
Other ethnic group: Moroccan	15
Other ethnic group: Muslim	21
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	28
Other ethnic group: North African	77
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	126
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European	109
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East	88
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed	103
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified	160
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani	0
Other ethnic group: Polish	121
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia	27
Other ethnic group: Portuguese	128
Other ethnic group: Punjabi	3
Other ethnic group: Roma	1
Other ethnic group: Romanian	109
Other ethnic group: Sikh	39
Other ethnic group: Slovakian	16
Other ethnic group: Somali	0
Other ethnic group: Somalilander	0
Other ethnic group: South American	47
Other ethnic group: Spanish	22
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan	44
Other ethnic group: Tamil	83
Other ethnic group: Thai	16
Other ethnic group: Turkish	332
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot	38
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese	13
Other ethnic group: White African	16
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group	706

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