Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Ethnic group (detailed)

Location Type: Combined Authorities, ONS Geographic Code: E47000008

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Key Facts

All Residents	894,519
Male	442,075
Female	452,448
Households	362,167

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

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- England
  Country
- East of England
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No equivalent neighbouring areas found.
Overlaps with
- Tydd Gote
  Built Up Areas
- Newmarket
  Built Up Areas
- Kentford
  Built Up Areas
- Red Lodge
  Built Up Areas
- Wansford
  Built Up Areas
- Wittering
  Built Up Areas
- Elm and Emneth
  Built Up Areas
- Deeping St James
  Built Up Areas
- Wisbech
  Built Up Areas
- Market Deeping
  Built Up Areas
- St Neots
  Built Up Areas
Contains
- Cambridgeshire
  Counties
- Peterborough
  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	894,531
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh	70,504
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Afghan	1,150
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African unspecified	135
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: African Asian	162
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Anglo Indian	38
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Arab	26
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Asian British	211
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	4,343
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Black and Asian	29
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese	10,584
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	27
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Filipino	3,619
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indian or British Indian	19,993
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Indonesian	148
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Iranian	348
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Japanese	678
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kashmiri	922
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Korean	629
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Kurdish	292
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Malaysian	197
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	150
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Mixed South Asian	62
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Myanmar or Burmese	56
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	938
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	461
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	633
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Middle East	217
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Mixed	124
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani or British Pakistani	20,822
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Punjabi	34
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sikh	69
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sinhalese	51
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Sri Lankan	1,391
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Taiwanese	159
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tajikistani/Kazakhstani/Kyrgystani/Turkmenistani/Uzbekistani	60
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Tamil	251
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Thai	684
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Turkish	94
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Vietnamese	469
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Any other ethnic group	248
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background	12,677
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: African unspecified	6,455
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Angolan	47
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Arab	28
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Black British	347
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cameroonian	60
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Cote D'Ivoire	9
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Democratic Republic of the Congo	85
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	40
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Eritrean	44
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ethiopian	44
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Gambian	31
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ghanaian	841
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Kenyan	309
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Malawian	24
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	42
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Mixed Black	10
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Moroccan	24
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Nigerian	2,147
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Black, Black unspecified	21
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other Mixed	16
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Other North African	42
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Portuguese	100
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sierra Leone	34
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somali	72
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Somalilander	3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: South African	145
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Sudanese	73
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Tanzanian	7
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Ugandan	171
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zambian	44
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Zimbabwean	892
Black, Black British, Black Welsh of African background: Any other ethnic group	470
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background	5,816
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: African unspecified	180
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black and European	37
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black British	1,430
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Black/African American	174
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Caribbean	3,220
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	50
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Ghanaian	13
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	16
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Mixed Black	56
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Nigerian	38
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Black, Black unspecified	275
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Other Mixed	18
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	6
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Somali	3
Black, Black British, Black Welsh or Caribbean background: Any other ethnic group	300
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups	26,961
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African unspecified	41
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African Asian	65
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: African/Arab	15
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Anglo Indian	31
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Arab	102
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Asian (unspecified) and European	66
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and Asian	141
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and European	33
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black and White (unspecified)	425
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Black British	22
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Brazilian	149
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean	75
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Caribbean Asian	53
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese	56
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and other Asian	28
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Chinese and White	141
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English	58
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	215
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black African	51
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and Black Caribbean	23
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European and North African or Middle Eastern	42
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	473
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Greek Cypriot	24
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Hispanic or Latin American	672
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Indian or British Indian	52
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Iranian	101
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Italian	56
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Jewish	56
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	97
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mexican	88
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Black	48
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed Irish	58
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed South Asian	13
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Mixed White	114
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Moroccan	37
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	79
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Middle East	55
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed	1,666
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Other White, White unspecified	197
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Pakistani or British Pakistani	26
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Polynesian/Micronesian/Melanesian	44
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Portuguese	109
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South African	31
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South American	122
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: South Asian and European	49
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Spanish	22
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish	70
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Turkish Cypriot	15
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White African	25
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Arab	305
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian (unspecified)	9,060
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African	4,405
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean	5,683
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and East Asian	59
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and North African or Middle Eastern	257
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White and South Asian	49
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: White Caribbean	42
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups: Any other ethnic group	870
White	763,750
White: African unspecified	38
White: Albanian	301
White: Algerian	23
White: Arab	33
White: Argentinian	39
White: Armenian	79
White: Australian/New Zealander	1,195
White: Austrian	211
White: Belarusian	66
White: Belgian	196
White: Bosnian	39
White: Brazilian	482
White: Bulgarian	1,914
White: Colombian	25
White: Cornish	64
White: Croatian	169
White: Cypriot (part not stated)	64
White: Czech	683
White: Danish	275
White: Dutch	700
White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British	652,481
White: Estonian	123
White: European Mixed	19,470
White: Finnish	249
White: French	1,660
White: Georgian	33
White: German	2,326
White: Greek	2,144
White: Greek Cypriot	314
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller	2,165
White: Hispanic or Latin American	619
White: Hungarian	1,813
White: Iranian	86
White: Irish	6,862
White: Israeli	63
White: Italian	4,446
White: Jewish	541
White: Kosovan	44
White: Kurdish	50
White: Latvian	2,693
White: Lithuanian	8,101
White: Maltese	109
White: Mixed Irish	441
White: Mixed White	106
White: Moldovan	26
White: North American	3,754
White: North Macedonian	70
White: Norwegian	130
White: Other Eastern European	4,191
White: Other Middle East	86
White: Other Mixed	601
White: Other North African	26
White: Other Traveller	105
White: Other White, White unspecified	6,282
White: Polish	15,261
White: Portuguese	3,181
White: Roma	2,411
White: Romanian	5,203
White: Russian	1,168
White: Serbian	184
White: Slovakian	1,088
White: Slovenian	133
White: South African	1,231
White: South American	106
White: Spanish	2,266
White: Swedish	345
White: Swiss	160
White: Turkish	862
White: Turkish Cypriot	50
White: Ukrainian	298
White: White African	413
White: White and North African or Middle Eastern	33
White: White Caribbean	64
White: Zimbabwean	33
White: Any other ethnic group	454
Other ethnic group	14,823
Other ethnic group: Afghan	291
Other ethnic group: African unspecified	123
Other ethnic group: African Asian	53
Other ethnic group: Albanian	26
Other ethnic group: Algerian	7
Other ethnic group: Arab	2,753
Other ethnic group: Armenian	13
Other ethnic group: Asian British	28
Other ethnic group: Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi	9
Other ethnic group: Black and Asian	33
Other ethnic group: Brazilian	68
Other ethnic group: Bulgarian	65
Other ethnic group: Caribbean	17
Other ethnic group: Caribbean Asian	30
Other ethnic group: Chinese	168
Other ethnic group: Colombian	11
Other ethnic group: Cornish	7
Other ethnic group: Cypriot (part not stated)	15
Other ethnic group: Czech	94
Other ethnic group: East Asian/ East Asian unspecified	332
Other ethnic group: English	61
Other ethnic group: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British	94
Other ethnic group: European Mixed, European unspecified, other European	727
Other ethnic group: Filipino	228
Other ethnic group: Greek	46
Other ethnic group: Greek Cypriot	76
Other ethnic group: Gypsy/Romany	68
Other ethnic group: Hispanic or Latin American	913
Other ethnic group: Indian or British Indian	107
Other ethnic group: Iranian	601
Other ethnic group: Italian	121
Other ethnic group: Japanese	39
Other ethnic group: Jewish	371
Other ethnic group: Kashmiri	507
Other ethnic group: Kurdish	950
Other ethnic group: Lithuanian	202
Other ethnic group: Mauritian/Seychellois/Maldivian/Sao Tomean/St Helenian	146
Other ethnic group: Mexican	73
Other ethnic group: Moroccan	19
Other ethnic group: Muslim	33
Other ethnic group: Nepali (includes Gurkha)	237
Other ethnic group: North African	161
Other ethnic group: Other Asian, Asian unspecified	338
Other ethnic group: Other Eastern European	149
Other ethnic group: Other Middle East	207
Other ethnic group: Other Mixed	198
Other ethnic group: Other White, White unspecified	191
Other ethnic group: Pakistani or British Pakistani	74
Other ethnic group: Polish	272
Other ethnic group: Polynesia/Micronesia/Melanesia	59
Other ethnic group: Portuguese	141
Other ethnic group: Punjabi	58
Other ethnic group: Roma	29
Other ethnic group: Romanian	393
Other ethnic group: Sikh	265
Other ethnic group: Slovakian	201
Other ethnic group: Somali	6
Other ethnic group: Somalilander	0
Other ethnic group: South American	90
Other ethnic group: Spanish	57
Other ethnic group: Sri Lankan	44
Other ethnic group: Tamil	144
Other ethnic group: Thai	32
Other ethnic group: Turkish	554
Other ethnic group: Turkish Cypriot	76
Other ethnic group: Vietnamese	35
Other ethnic group: White African	33
Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group	1,254

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

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