Suffolk: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E10000029

Suffolk added to comparison list.

Key Facts

All Residents	760,688
Male	374,712
Female	385,976
Households	333,543
Population Density (people/km2)	200.2

Related Census Areas
Is within
- England
  Country
- East of England
  Regions
Borders with
- Essex
  Counties
- Cambridgeshire
  Counties
- Norfolk
  Counties
Overlaps with
- Brandon (West Suffolk)
  Built Up Areas
- Bures
  Built Up Areas
- Cavendish
  Built Up Areas
- Newmarket
  Built Up Areas
- Kentford
  Built Up Areas
- Snailwell
  Built Up Areas
- Landwade
  Built Up Areas
- Diss
  Built Up Areas
Contains
- Babergh
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- Ipswich
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- Mid Suffolk
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- East Suffolk
  Non-metropolitan Districts
- West Suffolk
  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	760,680
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh	17,483
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan	238
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified	2
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian	8
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian	19
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab	8
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British	90
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	2,727
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian	6
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese	2,440
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	31
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino	2,137
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian	5,280
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian	50
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian	88
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese	158
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri	9
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean	107
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish	159
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian	55
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	37
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian	12
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese	64
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	327
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	204
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	92
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East	144
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed	37
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani	1,200
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi	5
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh	30
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese	15
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan	674
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese	13
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani	10
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil	126
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai	525
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish	63
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese	187
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group	106
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background	4,900
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified	2,481
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan	23
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab	7
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British	149
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian	11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire	13
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Democratic Republic of the Congo	23
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	5
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean	8
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian	88
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian	16
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian	278
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan	48
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian	17
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	81
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black	9
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan	7
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian	698
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified	11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed	14
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African	6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese	37
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone	13
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali	20
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander	8
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African	48
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese	17
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian	7
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan	43
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian	12
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean	344
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group	358
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background	5,267
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified	169
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European	38
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British	910
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American	599
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean	2,779
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	33
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Ghanaian	6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	8
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mixed Black	43
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian	11
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified	356
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed	8
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	35
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali	0
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group	272
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups	17,802
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified	41
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian	18
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab	6
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian	28
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab	30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European	23
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian	91
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European	18
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified)	563
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British	17
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian	66
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean	63
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian	27
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese	11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian	2
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White	39
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English	47
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	141
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African	19
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean	7
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern	8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	295
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot	12
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American	574
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian	30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian	30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian	27
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish	8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican	190
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black	30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish	29
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian	6
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White	78
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan	7
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	12
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East	24
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed	1,086
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified	112
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani	7
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	94
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese	33
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African	17
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American	44
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European	11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish	26
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish	53
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot	11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African	56
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab	99
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified)	3,805
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African	2,980
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean	5,832
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian	34
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern	91
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian	35
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean	20
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group	709
White	708,266
White: African unspecified	26
White: Albanian	190
White: Algerian	7
White: Arab	8
White: Argentinian	16
White: Armenian	15
White: Australian/New Zealander	460
White: Austrian	37
White: Belarusian	8
White: Belgian	51
White: Bosnian	10
White: Brazilian	127
White: Bulgarian	661
White: Colombian	8
White: Cornish	50
White: Croatian	32
White: Cypriot (part not stated)	33
White: Czech	200
White: Danish	111
White: Dutch	343
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British	664,155
White: Estonian	35
White: European Mixed	6,451
White: Finnish	63
White: French	481
White: Georgian	10
White: German	911
White: Greek	325
White: Greek Cypriot	98
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller	880
White: Hispanic or Latin American	242
White: Hungarian	651
White: Iranian	13
White: Irish	3,990
White: Israeli	6
White: Italian	798
White: Jewish	106
White: Kosovan	60
White: Kurdish	44
White: Latvian	561
White: Lithuanian	1,851
White: Maltese	58
White: Mixed Irish	196
White: Mixed White	46
White: Moldovan	21
White: North American	4,706
White: North Macedonian	19
White: Norwegian	61
White: Other Eastern European	1,448
White: Other Middle East	24
White: Other Mixed	318
White: Other North African	11
White: Other Traveller	25
White: Other White, White unspecified	2,438
White: Polish	5,574
White: Portuguese	1,835
White: Roma	987
White: Romanian	3,552
White: Russian	299
White: Serbian	69
White: Slovakian	240
White: Slovenian	38
White: South African	592
White: South American	33
White: Spanish	374
White: Swedish	158
White: Swiss	48
White: Turkish	322
White: Turkish Cypriot	60
White: Ukrainian	92
White: White African	241
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern	16
White: White Caribbean	19
White: Zimbabwean	24
White: Any other ethnic group	198
Other ethnic group	6,962
Other ethnic group: Afghan	96
Other ethnic group: African unspecified	39
Other ethnic group: African Asian	2
Other ethnic group: Albanian	20
Other ethnic group: Algerian	4
Other ethnic group: Arab	782
Other ethnic group: Armenian	5
Other ethnic group: Asian British	4
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	12
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian	9
Other ethnic group: Brazilian	22
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian	48
Other ethnic group: Caribbean	10
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian	16
Other ethnic group: Chinese	53
Other ethnic group: Colombian	11
Other ethnic group: Cornish	3
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated)	10
Other ethnic group: Czech	2
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	31
Other ethnic group: English	30
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	53
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	353
Other ethnic group: Filipino	116
Other ethnic group: Greek	23
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot	41
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany	31
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American	911
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian	16
Other ethnic group: Iranian	121
Other ethnic group: Italian	18
Other ethnic group: Japanese	13
Other ethnic group: Jewish	80
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri	1
Other ethnic group: Kurdish	852
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian	26
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	52
Other ethnic group: Mexican	133
Other ethnic group: Moroccan	6
Other ethnic group: Muslim	18
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	25
Other ethnic group: North African	36
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	84
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European	63
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East	118
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed	104
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified	92
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani	6
Other ethnic group: Polish	84
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia	97
Other ethnic group: Portuguese	67
Other ethnic group: Punjabi	13
Other ethnic group: Roma	30
Other ethnic group: Romanian	604
Other ethnic group: Sikh	58
Other ethnic group: Slovakian	2
Other ethnic group: Somali	6
Other ethnic group: Somalilander	1
Other ethnic group: South American	33
Other ethnic group: Spanish	17
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan	30
Other ethnic group: Tamil	76
Other ethnic group: Thai	10
Other ethnic group: Turkish	406
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot	60
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese	6
Other ethnic group: White African	24
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group	737

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