Yorkshire and The Humber: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Regions, ONS Geographic Code: E12000003

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Key Facts

All Residents	5,480,774
Male	2,689,092
Female	2,791,685
Households	2,330,658
Population Density (people/km2)	355.8

Related Census Areas
Is within
- England
  Country
Borders with
- North East
  Regions
- North West
  Regions
- East Midlands
  Regions
Overlaps with
- Staithes
  Built Up Areas
- Holton le Clay
  Built Up Areas
- Harworth and Bircotes
  Built Up Areas
- Highlane
  Built Up Areas
- Shireoaks
  Built Up Areas
Contains
- West Yorkshire
  Combined Authorities
- South Yorkshire
  Combined Authorities
- West Yorkshire
  Metropolitan Counties
- South Yorkshire
  Metropolitan Counties
- North Yorkshire
  Counties
- York
  Unitary Authorities
- North Lincolnshire
  Unitary Authorities
- North East Lincolnshire
  Unitary Authorities
- East Riding of Yorkshire
  Unitary Authorities
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
  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	5,480,778
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh	487,050
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan	4,246
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified	61
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian	143
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian	55
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab	610
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British	900
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	29,018
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian	51
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese	29,589
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	221
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino	6,891
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian	81,322
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian	526
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian	3,768
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese	663
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri	8,164
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean	668
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish	2,370
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian	896
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	277
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian	566
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese	672
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	3,073
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	1,507
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	693
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East	2,066
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed	442
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani	296,437
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi	311
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh	887
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese	125
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan	3,182
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese	263
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani	98
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil	415
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai	2,919
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish	430
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese	1,820
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group	705
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background	79,218
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified	40,576
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan	305
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab	210
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British	2,194
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian	318
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire	112
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,241
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	128
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean	2,563
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian	1,102
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian	478
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian	3,805
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan	751
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian	170
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	130
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black	71
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan	80
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian	10,178
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified	186
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed	86
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African	381
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese	145
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone	139
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali	3,791
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander	1,753
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African	492
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese	1,099
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian	66
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan	495
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian	249
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean	4,117
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group	1,807
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background	38,426
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified	1,750
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European	220
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British	9,029
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American	115
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean	22,674
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	376
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Ghanaian	62
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	79
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mixed Black	292
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian	102
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified	2,075
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed	87
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	178
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali	214
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group	1,173
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups	117,016
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified	186
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian	212
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab	59
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian	115
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab	584
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European	109
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian	608
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European	91
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified)	1,102
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British	88
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian	215
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean	362
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian	294
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese	169
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian	66
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White	539
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English	258
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	760
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African	154
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean	75
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern	117
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	1,517
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot	34
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American	1,095
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian	228
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian	322
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian	112
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish	114
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	168
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican	164
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black	186
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish	215
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian	147
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White	352
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan	64
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	163
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East	241
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed	5,411
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified	757
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani	251
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	334
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese	90
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African	62
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American	230
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European	138
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish	77
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish	294
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot	32
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African	76
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab	1,260
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified)	36,888
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African	15,644
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean	39,296
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian	196
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern	946
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian	316
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean	220
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group	3,213
White	4,679,965
White: African unspecified	127
White: Albanian	1,478
White: Algerian	33
White: Arab	281
White: Argentinian	69
White: Armenian	96
White: Australian/New Zealander	1,940
White: Austrian	223
White: Belarusian	93
White: Belgian	256
White: Bosnian	272
White: Brazilian	592
White: Bulgarian	2,934
White: Colombian	24
White: Cornish	165
White: Croatian	265
White: Cypriot (part not stated)	239
White: Czech	2,404
White: Danish	387
White: Dutch	1,103
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British	4,431,100
White: Estonian	313
White: European Mixed	33,639
White: Finnish	296
White: French	1,922
White: Georgian	147
White: German	2,842
White: Greek	3,151
White: Greek Cypriot	644
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller	5,529
White: Hispanic or Latin American	1,108
White: Hungarian	3,601
White: Iranian	374
White: Irish	25,215
White: Israeli	56
White: Italian	4,561
White: Jewish	910
White: Kosovan	355
White: Kurdish	271
White: Latvian	6,934
White: Lithuanian	7,269
White: Maltese	218
White: Mixed Irish	1,144
White: Mixed White	138
White: Moldovan	108
White: North American	3,941
White: North Macedonian	47
White: Norwegian	347
White: Other Eastern European	8,376
White: Other Middle East	247
White: Other Mixed	1,095
White: Other North African	84
White: Other Traveller	362
White: Other White, White unspecified	11,182
White: Polish	60,383
White: Portuguese	2,631
White: Roma	9,464
White: Romanian	19,727
White: Russian	1,871
White: Serbian	338
White: Slovakian	4,917
White: Slovenian	253
White: South African	1,728
White: South American	131
White: Spanish	2,800
White: Swedish	478
White: Swiss	190
White: Turkish	1,523
White: Turkish Cypriot	62
White: Ukrainian	754
White: White African	764
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern	85
White: White Caribbean	172
White: Zimbabwean	73
White: Any other ethnic group	1,114
Other ethnic group	79,103
Other ethnic group: Afghan	948
Other ethnic group: African unspecified	1,292
Other ethnic group: African Asian	75
Other ethnic group: Albanian	206
Other ethnic group: Algerian	64
Other ethnic group: Arab	25,474
Other ethnic group: Armenian	82
Other ethnic group: Asian British	109
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	107
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian	89
Other ethnic group: Brazilian	149
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian	283
Other ethnic group: Caribbean	89
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian	76
Other ethnic group: Chinese	748
Other ethnic group: Colombian	25
Other ethnic group: Cornish	15
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated)	49
Other ethnic group: Czech	583
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	208
Other ethnic group: English	212
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	322
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	1,800
Other ethnic group: Filipino	575
Other ethnic group: Greek	138
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot	218
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany	471
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American	2,022
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian	285
Other ethnic group: Iranian	3,305
Other ethnic group: Italian	214
Other ethnic group: Japanese	81
Other ethnic group: Jewish	809
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri	3,253
Other ethnic group: Kurdish	9,366
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian	177
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	252
Other ethnic group: Mexican	107
Other ethnic group: Moroccan	95
Other ethnic group: Muslim	140
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	407
Other ethnic group: North African	491
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	749
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European	357
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East	1,398
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed	747
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified	388
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani	845
Other ethnic group: Polish	1,089
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia	519
Other ethnic group: Portuguese	127
Other ethnic group: Punjabi	251
Other ethnic group: Roma	736
Other ethnic group: Romanian	1,716
Other ethnic group: Sikh	3,576
Other ethnic group: Slovakian	2,533
Other ethnic group: Somali	459
Other ethnic group: Somalilander	156
Other ethnic group: South American	163
Other ethnic group: Spanish	147
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan	180
Other ethnic group: Tamil	336
Other ethnic group: Thai	147
Other ethnic group: Turkish	2,157
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot	73
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese	128
Other ethnic group: White African	78
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group	4,637

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