South Yorkshire: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Combined Authorities, ONS Geographic Code: E47000002

South Yorkshire added to comparison list.

Key Facts

All Residents	1,375,006
Male	677,559
Female	697,447
Households	587,407

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

Related Census Areas
Is within
- England
  Country
- Yorkshire and The Humber
  Regions
- South Yorkshire
  Metropolitan Counties
Borders with
- West Yorkshire
  Combined Authorities
Overlaps with
- Output Area at SE309110
  Output Areas
- Kirk Smeaton and Little Smeaton
  Built Up Areas
- Upper Denby
  Built Up Areas
- Wroot
  Built Up Areas
- Harworth and Bircotes
  Built Up Areas
- Highlane
  Built Up Areas
- Shireoaks
  Built Up Areas
Contains
- Barnsley
  Metropolitan Districts
- Doncaster
  Metropolitan Districts
- Rotherham
  Metropolitan Districts
- Sheffield
  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	1,375,022
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh	79,118
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan	947
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified	1
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian	14
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian	23
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab	297
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British	204
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	4,610
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian	5
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese	9,722
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	38
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino	1,267
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian	10,893
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian	112
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian	1,341
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese	154
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri	1,466
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean	171
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish	579
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian	343
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	65
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian	76
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese	307
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	720
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	339
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	156
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East	839
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed	114
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani	41,190
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi	56
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh	41
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese	37
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan	1,199
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese	97
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani	25
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil	199
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai	714
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish	202
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese	401
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group	154
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background	23,845
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified	10,654
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan	63
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab	65
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British	628
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian	69
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire	21
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Democratic Republic of the Congo	369
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	35
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean	876
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian	346
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian	40
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian	683
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan	217
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian	34
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	29
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black	26
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan	17
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian	2,938
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified	48
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed	23
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African	95
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese	23
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone	36
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali	2,435
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander	1,648
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African	149
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese	352
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian	18
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan	174
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian	73
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean	1,239
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group	422
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background	10,146
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified	498
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European	33
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British	2,393
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American	32
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean	5,813
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	82
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Ghanaian	15
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	58
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mixed Black	68
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian	34
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified	516
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed	19
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	7
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali	168
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group	410
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups	30,455
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified	43
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian	58
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab	17
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian	39
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab	275
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European	26
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian	105
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European	19
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified)	318
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British	28
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian	48
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean	112
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian	72
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese	36
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian	8
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White	83
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English	65
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	208
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African	50
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean	23
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern	29
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	427
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot	9
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American	251
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian	39
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian	80
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian	28
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish	32
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	38
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican	38
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black	46
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish	39
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian	11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White	102
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan	19
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	29
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East	102
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed	1,393
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified	175
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani	55
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	45
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese	14
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African	13
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American	54
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European	31
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish	13
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish	76
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot	11
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African	30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab	543
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified)	8,316
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African	4,124
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean	11,266
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian	47
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern	251
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian	67
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean	48
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group	931
White	1,206,067
White: African unspecified	29
White: Albanian	635
White: Algerian	9
White: Arab	96
White: Argentinian	6
White: Armenian	32
White: Australian/New Zealander	315
White: Austrian	44
White: Belarusian	27
White: Belgian	60
White: Bosnian	19
White: Brazilian	139
White: Bulgarian	856
White: Colombian	5
White: Cornish	36
White: Croatian	74
White: Cypriot (part not stated)	92
White: Czech	470
White: Danish	81
White: Dutch	216
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British	1,142,640
White: Estonian	70
White: European Mixed	8,701
White: Finnish	56
White: French	374
White: Georgian	102
White: German	640
White: Greek	828
White: Greek Cypriot	231
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller	1,500
White: Hispanic or Latin American	243
White: Hungarian	900
White: Iranian	145
White: Irish	4,930
White: Israeli	12
White: Italian	896
White: Jewish	137
White: Kosovan	132
White: Kurdish	81
White: Latvian	1,325
White: Lithuanian	1,383
White: Maltese	51
White: Mixed Irish	271
White: Mixed White	35
White: Moldovan	25
White: North American	685
White: North Macedonian	18
White: Norwegian	56
White: Other Eastern European	2,382
White: Other Middle East	73
White: Other Mixed	238
White: Other North African	28
White: Other Traveller	153
White: Other White, White unspecified	3,065
White: Polish	13,357
White: Portuguese	575
White: Roma	4,156
White: Romanian	8,067
White: Russian	398
White: Serbian	63
White: Slovakian	1,441
White: Slovenian	62
White: South African	307
White: South American	26
White: Spanish	594
White: Swedish	95
White: Swiss	28
White: Turkish	540
White: Turkish Cypriot	28
White: Ukrainian	132
White: White African	151
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern	25
White: White Caribbean	74
White: Zimbabwean	10
White: Any other ethnic group	291
Other ethnic group	25,391
Other ethnic group: Afghan	274
Other ethnic group: African unspecified	484
Other ethnic group: African Asian	19
Other ethnic group: Albanian	112
Other ethnic group: Algerian	18
Other ethnic group: Arab	10,373
Other ethnic group: Armenian	19
Other ethnic group: Asian British	20
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	14
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian	12
Other ethnic group: Brazilian	20
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian	114
Other ethnic group: Caribbean	21
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian	22
Other ethnic group: Chinese	269
Other ethnic group: Colombian	0
Other ethnic group: Cornish	1
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated)	11
Other ethnic group: Czech	145
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	36
Other ethnic group: English	56
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	86
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	520
Other ethnic group: Filipino	60
Other ethnic group: Greek	46
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot	61
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany	167
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American	585
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian	54
Other ethnic group: Iranian	1,033
Other ethnic group: Italian	44
Other ethnic group: Japanese	17
Other ethnic group: Jewish	86
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri	441
Other ethnic group: Kurdish	2,511
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian	20
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	53
Other ethnic group: Mexican	26
Other ethnic group: Moroccan	22
Other ethnic group: Muslim	64
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	106
Other ethnic group: North African	161
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	195
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European	83
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East	360
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed	222
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified	114
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani	174
Other ethnic group: Polish	197
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia	41
Other ethnic group: Portuguese	33
Other ethnic group: Punjabi	15
Other ethnic group: Roma	375
Other ethnic group: Romanian	447
Other ethnic group: Sikh	298
Other ethnic group: Slovakian	1,441
Other ethnic group: Somali	318
Other ethnic group: Somalilander	152
Other ethnic group: South American	43
Other ethnic group: Spanish	27
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan	84
Other ethnic group: Tamil	183
Other ethnic group: Thai	25
Other ethnic group: Turkish	853
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot	31
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese	41
Other ethnic group: White African	13
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group	1,423

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

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