North East: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Regions, ONS Geographic Code: E12000001

North East added to comparison list.

Key Facts

All Residents	2,647,013
Male	1,293,395
Female	1,353,618
Households	1,175,680
Population Density (people/km2)	308.5

Related Census Areas
Is within
- England
  Country
Borders with
- Yorkshire and The Humber
  Regions
- North West
  Regions
Overlaps with
- Gilsland
  Built Up Areas
- Staithes
  Built Up Areas
Contains
- North of Tyne
  Combined Authorities
- North East
  Combined Authorities
- Tees Valley
  Combined Authorities
- Tyne and Wear
  Metropolitan Counties
- Northumberland
  Unitary Authorities
- County Durham
  Unitary Authorities
- Darlington
  Unitary Authorities
- Stockton-on-Tees
  Unitary Authorities
- Redcar and Cleveland
  Unitary Authorities
- Middlesbrough
  Unitary Authorities
- Hartlepool
  Unitary Authorities

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

Description
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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	2,647,030
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh	98,048
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan	1,361
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified	11
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian	45
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian	9
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab	207
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British	310
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	16,355
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian	13
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese	14,442
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	49
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino	4,599
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian	22,021
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian	239
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian	2,031
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese	357
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri	460
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean	264
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish	723
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian	419
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	84
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian	54
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese	167
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	385
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	470
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	241
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East	605
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed	122
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani	27,290
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi	76
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh	190
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese	21
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan	1,661
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese	111
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani	92
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil	251
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai	1,352
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish	91
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese	645
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group	225
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background	21,703
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified	11,088
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan	118
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab	140
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British	735
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian	120
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire	40
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Democratic Republic of the Congo	282
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	43
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean	534
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian	302
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian	45
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian	475
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan	195
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian	19
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	21
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black	15
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan	15
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian	4,705
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified	43
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed	33
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African	108
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese	59
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone	106
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali	255
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander	33
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African	209
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese	373
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian	19
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan	126
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian	26
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean	937
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group	484
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background	4,940
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified	369
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European	132
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British	1,897
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American	19
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean	1,700
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	67
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Ghanaian	3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	14
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mixed Black	45
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian	48
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified	330
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed	23
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	26
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali	10
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group	257
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups	33,271
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified	89
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian	46
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab	39
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian	20
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab	263
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European	44
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian	121
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European	31
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified)	223
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British	20
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian	78
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean	66
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian	64
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese	58
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian	23
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White	112
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English	105
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	338
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African	48
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean	25
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern	36
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	587
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot	11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American	414
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian	50
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian	210
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian	39
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish	21
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	70
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican	89
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black	38
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish	52
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian	25
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White	158
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan	26
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	36
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East	108
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed	1,603
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified	291
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani	34
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	110
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese	61
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African	28
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American	85
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European	35
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish	36
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish	206
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot	8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African	38
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab	654
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified)	12,490
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African	6,527
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean	5,650
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian	55
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern	399
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian	119
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean	29
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group	1,030
White	2,462,717
White: African unspecified	50
White: Albanian	664
White: Algerian	65
White: Arab	126
White: Argentinian	25
White: Armenian	37
White: Australian/New Zealander	685
White: Austrian	83
White: Belarusian	55
White: Belgian	128
White: Bosnian	32
White: Brazilian	187
White: Bulgarian	830
White: Colombian	17
White: Cornish	53
White: Croatian	157
White: Cypriot (part not stated)	128
White: Czech	1,031
White: Danish	150
White: Dutch	535
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British	2,397,504
White: Estonian	78
White: European Mixed	8,936
White: Finnish	133
White: French	836
White: Georgian	56
White: German	1,335
White: Greek	1,479
White: Greek Cypriot	200
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller	2,362
White: Hispanic or Latin American	316
White: Hungarian	621
White: Iranian	184
White: Irish	8,384
White: Israeli	20
White: Italian	1,760
White: Jewish	458
White: Kosovan	39
White: Kurdish	83
White: Latvian	560
White: Lithuanian	1,161
White: Maltese	111
White: Mixed Irish	358
White: Mixed White	58
White: Moldovan	21
White: North American	1,530
White: North Macedonian	17
White: Norwegian	193
White: Other Eastern European	1,780
White: Other Middle East	89
White: Other Mixed	417
White: Other North African	23
White: Other Traveller	259
White: Other White, White unspecified	2,931
White: Polish	10,261
White: Portuguese	722
White: Roma	2,375
White: Romanian	4,531
White: Russian	783
White: Serbian	97
White: Slovakian	694
White: Slovenian	57
White: South African	780
White: South American	39
White: Spanish	953
White: Swedish	226
White: Swiss	96
White: Turkish	691
White: Turkish Cypriot	6
White: Ukrainian	228
White: White African	350
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern	55
White: White Caribbean	41
White: Zimbabwean	18
White: Any other ethnic group	384
Other ethnic group	26,351
Other ethnic group: Afghan	337
Other ethnic group: African unspecified	358
Other ethnic group: African Asian	10
Other ethnic group: Albanian	60
Other ethnic group: Algerian	21
Other ethnic group: Arab	10,406
Other ethnic group: Armenian	21
Other ethnic group: Asian British	52
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	63
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian	9
Other ethnic group: Brazilian	50
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian	50
Other ethnic group: Caribbean	16
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian	17
Other ethnic group: Chinese	250
Other ethnic group: Colombian	14
Other ethnic group: Cornish	5
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated)	14
Other ethnic group: Czech	362
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	52
Other ethnic group: English	65
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	87
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	471
Other ethnic group: Filipino	259
Other ethnic group: Greek	67
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot	46
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany	75
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American	896
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian	97
Other ethnic group: Iranian	1,834
Other ethnic group: Italian	54
Other ethnic group: Japanese	31
Other ethnic group: Jewish	590
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri	245
Other ethnic group: Kurdish	2,706
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian	18
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	41
Other ethnic group: Mexican	52
Other ethnic group: Moroccan	13
Other ethnic group: Muslim	46
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	35
Other ethnic group: North African	158
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	282
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European	60
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East	631
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed	249
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified	123
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani	101
Other ethnic group: Polish	134
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia	135
Other ethnic group: Portuguese	37
Other ethnic group: Punjabi	98
Other ethnic group: Roma	132
Other ethnic group: Romanian	481
Other ethnic group: Sikh	861
Other ethnic group: Slovakian	361
Other ethnic group: Somali	3
Other ethnic group: Somalilander	0
Other ethnic group: South American	77
Other ethnic group: Spanish	59
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan	96
Other ethnic group: Tamil	170
Other ethnic group: Thai	59
Other ethnic group: Turkish	757
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot	42
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese	25
Other ethnic group: White African	27
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group	1,298

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