Census Data

Merseyside: Main language (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E11000002

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Key Facts

All Residents 1,423,287
Male 690,711
Female 732,574
Households 620,902

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Metropolitan Counties. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within Merseyside. They may not, therefore, be precisely accurate. Age-standardised statistics and population density are not available for aggregated datasets.

Table Codets024
Issued2022-11-29
Unit of MeasurePerson
Number of Response Options95

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

Summary

A person's first or preferred language.

This shows a detailed breakdown of the responses given in the write-in option "Other, write in".

Main language (detailed): Total: All usual residents aged 3 years and over 1,378,921
English (English or Welsh in Wales) 1,307,596
Welsh or Cymraeg (in England only) 628
Other UK language 96
Other UK language: Gaelic (Irish) 40
Other UK language: Gaelic (Scottish) 5
Other UK language: Manx Gaelic 1
Other UK language: Gaelic (Not otherwise specified) 10
Other UK language: Cornish 0
Other UK language: Scots 8
Other UK language: Ulster Scots 1
Other UK language: Romany English 31
Other UK language: Irish Traveller Cant 0
French 848
Portuguese 4,998
Spanish 3,034
Other European language (EU) 27,347
Other European language (EU): Italian 1,966
Other European language (EU): German 475
Other European language (EU): Polish 10,224
Other European language (EU): Slovak 959
Other European language (EU): Czech 977
Other European language (EU): Romanian 5,905
Other European language (EU): Lithuanian 1,346
Other European language (EU): Latvian 631
Other European language (EU): Hungarian 1,760
Other European language (EU): Bulgarian 1,375
Other European language (EU): Greek 1,102
Other European language (EU): Dutch 251
Other European language (EU): Swedish 89
Other European language (EU): Danish 60
Other European language (EU): Finnish 40
Other European language (EU): Estonian 60
Other European language (EU): Slovenian 23
Other European language (EU): Maltese 32
Other European language (EU): Any other European language (EU) 72
Other European language (non EU) 633
Other European language (non EU): Albanian 383
Other European language (non EU): Ukrainian 87
Other European language (non EU): Any other Eastern European language (non EU) 10
Other European language (non EU): Northern European language (non EU) 153
Other European language (EU and non-EU) 160
Other European language (EU and non-EU): Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin 160
Other European language (non-national) 3
Other European language (non-national): Any Romani language 0
Other European language (non-national): Yiddish 3
Russian 852
Turkish 1,233
Arabic 6,919
West or Central Asian language 4,837
West or Central Asian language: Hebrew 46
West or Central Asian language: Kurdish 2,566
West or Central Asian language: Persian or Farsi 1,776
West or Central Asian language: Pashto 332
West or Central Asian language: Any other West or Central Asian language 117
South Asian language 8,083
South Asian language: Urdu 978
South Asian language: Hindi 453
South Asian language: Panjabi 402
South Asian language: Pakistani Pahari (with Mirpuri and Potwari) 0
South Asian language: Bengali (with Sylheti and Chatgaya) 1,266
South Asian language: Gujarati 129
South Asian language: Marathi 92
South Asian language: Telugu 232
South Asian language: Tamil 2,212
South Asian language: Malayalam 1,589
South Asian language: Sinhala 327
South Asian language: Nepalese 254
South Asian language: Any other South Asian language 149
East Asian language 8,682
East Asian language: Mandarin Chinese 728
East Asian language: Cantonese Chinese 1,857
East Asian language: All other Chinese 4,237
East Asian language: Japanese 137
East Asian language: Korean 82
East Asian language: Vietnamese 396
East Asian language: Thai 374
East Asian language: Malay 116
East Asian language: Tagalog or Filipino 603
East Asian language: Any other East Asian language 152
Oceanic or Australian language 4
North or South American language 1
Caribbean Creole 12
Caribbean Creole: English-based Caribbean Creole 0
Caribbean Creole: Any other Caribbean Creole 12
African language 2,231
African language: Amharic 116
African language: Tigrinya 433
African language: Somali 542
African language: Krio 3
African language: Akan 82
African language: Yoruba 94
African language: Igbo 133
African language: Swahili or Kiswahili 108
African language: Luganda 17
African language: Lingala 43
African language: Shona 169
African language: Afrikaans 42
African language: Any other Nigerian language 85
African language: Any other West African language 120
African language: Any other African language 244
Sign language 665
Sign language: British Sign Language 569
Sign language: Any other sign language 32
Sign language: Any sign communication system 64
Other language 59

These values are calculated by adding up the values for census output areas contained within Merseyside. They may, therefore, be slightly inaccurate due to administrative boundaries not precisely aligning with census boundaries.

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