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London: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Regions, ONS Geographic Code: E12000007

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Key Facts

All Residents 8,799,728
Male 4,268,106
Female 4,531,622
Households 3,423,892
Population Density (people/km2) 5,597.6
Table Codets022
Issued2022-11-29
Unit of MeasurePerson
Number of Response Options288

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 8,799,726
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh 1,817,643
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan 54,294
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified 1,514
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian 2,396
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian 932
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab 1,799
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British 6,000
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi 322,054
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian 1,018
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese 147,520
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 914
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino 57,867
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian 656,272
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian 2,188
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian 13,732
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese 16,868
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri 2,358
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean 11,833
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish 1,670
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian 4,437
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 10,195
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian 2,330
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese 3,330
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha) 25,063
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 8,591
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified 4,872
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East 3,614
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed 2,988
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani 290,549
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi 2,114
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh 6,888
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese 1,048
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan 78,975
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese 2,006
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani 2,112
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil 30,742
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai 7,856
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish 3,685
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese 18,069
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group 6,950
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background 686,152
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified 258,536
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan 2,856
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab 889
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British 25,507
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian 1,410
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire 1,883
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Democratic Republic of the Congo 14,971
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 1,897
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean 12,986
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian 8,947
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian 1,197
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian 63,523
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan 4,639
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian 210
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 1,551
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black 960
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan 892
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian 128,896
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified 558
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed 1,123
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African 1,450
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese 821
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone 5,565
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali 95,665
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander 14,670
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African 2,134
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese 3,057
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian 646
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan 10,502
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian 853
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean 6,192
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group 11,166
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background 502,217
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified 11,258
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European 797
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British 97,473
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American 953
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean 345,044
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 3,769
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Ghanaian 1,401
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 787
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mixed Black 8,039
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian 2,426
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified 16,592
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed 983
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian 90
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali 3,938
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group 8,667
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups 505,774
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified 1,620
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian 1,786
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab 885
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian 938
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab 2,473
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European 1,145
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian 6,863
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European 994
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified) 5,237
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British 864
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian 2,685
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean 3,262
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian 3,394
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese 849
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian 797
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White 2,084
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English 954
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 2,700
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African 1,467
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean 1,151
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern 1,557
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European 8,352
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot 945
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American 13,392
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian 1,166
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian 1,744
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian 580
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish 1,285
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 1,941
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican 704
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black 2,651
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish 1,662
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian 700
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White 1,803
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan 857
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 1,250
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East 1,381
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed 40,491
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified 2,943
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani 486
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian 1,179
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese 853
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African 509
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American 2,717
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European 1,296
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish 625
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish 1,775
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot 1,140
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African 590
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab 4,908
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified) 125,188
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African 77,341
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean 132,555
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian 916
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern 4,040
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian 857
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean 839
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group 20,408
White 4,731,178
White: African unspecified 693
White: Albanian 22,918
White: Algerian 1,168
White: Arab 1,818
White: Argentinian 1,011
White: Armenian 2,317
White: Australian/New Zealander 28,396
White: Austrian 2,575
White: Belarusian 1,006
White: Belgian 3,301
White: Bosnian 983
White: Brazilian 11,769
White: Bulgarian 38,435
White: Colombian 1,200
White: Cornish 562
White: Croatian 2,834
White: Cypriot (part not stated) 3,098
White: Czech 4,682
White: Danish 3,367
White: Dutch 6,558
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British 3,238,719
White: Estonian 1,671
White: European Mixed 225,334
White: Finnish 3,096
White: French 40,878
White: Georgian 1,153
White: German 23,490
White: Greek 33,970
White: Greek Cypriot 17,551
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller 6,891
White: Hispanic or Latin American 16,497
White: Hungarian 16,980
White: Iranian 3,764
White: Irish 156,333
White: Israeli 1,869
White: Italian 73,300
White: Jewish 21,280
White: Kosovan 9,867
White: Kurdish 3,152
White: Latvian 5,834
White: Lithuanian 25,967
White: Maltese 1,481
White: Mixed Irish 6,140
White: Mixed White 999
White: Moldovan 1,393
White: North American 28,125
White: North Macedonian 1,410
White: Norwegian 2,460
White: Other Eastern European 66,417
White: Other Middle East 3,613
White: Other Mixed 7,490
White: Other North African 2,137
White: Other Traveller 141
White: Other White, White unspecified 77,837
White: Polish 116,056
White: Portuguese 35,038
White: Roma 37,689
White: Romanian 115,125
White: Russian 19,785
White: Serbian 3,697
White: Slovakian 6,044
White: Slovenian 1,267
White: South African 13,440
White: South American 3,494
White: Spanish 35,206
White: Swedish 7,493
White: Swiss 3,152
White: Turkish 37,029
White: Turkish Cypriot 7,278
White: Ukrainian 7,698
White: White African 4,983
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern 867
White: White Caribbean 1,289
White: Zimbabwean 291
White: Any other ethnic group 8,327
Other ethnic group 556,762
Other ethnic group: Afghan 9,805
Other ethnic group: African unspecified 5,576
Other ethnic group: African Asian 1,118
Other ethnic group: Albanian 2,655
Other ethnic group: Algerian 1,149
Other ethnic group: Arab 139,791
Other ethnic group: Armenian 1,122
Other ethnic group: Asian British 887
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi 1,187
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian 932
Other ethnic group: Brazilian 2,999
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian 3,163
Other ethnic group: Caribbean 1,629
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian 2,001
Other ethnic group: Chinese 3,058
Other ethnic group: Colombian 1,617
Other ethnic group: Cornish 54
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated) 1,560
Other ethnic group: Czech 114
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified 1,629
Other ethnic group: English 567
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 1,892
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European 12,499
Other ethnic group: Filipino 6,132
Other ethnic group: Greek 1,799
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot 9,004
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany 250
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American 50,534
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian 4,020
Other ethnic group: Iranian 25,407
Other ethnic group: Italian 1,830
Other ethnic group: Japanese 1,411
Other ethnic group: Jewish 20,089
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri 1,108
Other ethnic group: Kurdish 26,048
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian 619
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian 7,548
Other ethnic group: Mexican 567
Other ethnic group: Moroccan 2,990
Other ethnic group: Muslim 1,761
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha) 4,860
Other ethnic group: North African 8,427
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified 5,372
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European 2,989
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East 8,417
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed 6,540
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified 2,954
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani 941
Other ethnic group: Polish 2,040
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia 628
Other ethnic group: Portuguese 2,064
Other ethnic group: Punjabi 2,373
Other ethnic group: Roma 128
Other ethnic group: Romanian 6,602
Other ethnic group: Sikh 22,573
Other ethnic group: Slovakian 217
Other ethnic group: Somali 6,681
Other ethnic group: Somalilander 958
Other ethnic group: South American 6,565
Other ethnic group: Spanish 2,121
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan 4,557
Other ethnic group: Tamil 14,783
Other ethnic group: Thai 446
Other ethnic group: Turkish 33,479
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot 15,677
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese 1,440
Other ethnic group: White African 939
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group 33,870

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