North East: Main language (detailed)

Location Type: Combined Authorities, ONS Geographic Code: E47000010

Key Facts

All Residents	1,140,167
Male	556,310
Female	583,856
Households	514,224

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Combined Authorities. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within North East. 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
- North East
  Regions
Borders with
- Tees Valley
  Combined Authorities
- North of Tyne
  Combined Authorities
Overlaps with
- Output Area at NZ119646
  Output Areas
- School Aycliffe
  Built Up Areas
- Tyne and Wear
  Metropolitan Counties
Contains
- County Durham
  Unitary Authorities
- South Tyneside
  Metropolitan Districts
- Sunderland
  Metropolitan Districts
- Gateshead
  Metropolitan Districts

Table Code	ts024
Issued	2022-11-29
Unit of Measure	Person
Number of Response Options	95

Description
Data
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This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in England and Wales by their main language. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Summary

A person's first or preferred language.

This shows a detailed breakdown of the responses given in the write-in option "Other, write in".

Main language (detailed): Total: All usual residents aged 3 years and over	1,107,520
English (English or Welsh in Wales)	1,079,822
Welsh or Cymraeg (in England only)	59
Other UK language	33
Other UK language: Gaelic (Irish)	10
Other UK language: Gaelic (Scottish)	4
Other UK language: Manx Gaelic	0
Other UK language: Gaelic (Not otherwise specified)	5
Other UK language: Cornish	0
Other UK language: Scots	12
Other UK language: Ulster Scots	0
Other UK language: Romany English	2
Other UK language: Irish Traveller Cant	0
French	502
Portuguese	737
Spanish	905
Other European language (EU)	9,581
Other European language (EU): Italian	765
Other European language (EU): German	341
Other European language (EU): Polish	4,118
Other European language (EU): Slovak	241
Other European language (EU): Czech	235
Other European language (EU): Romanian	1,520
Other European language (EU): Lithuanian	391
Other European language (EU): Latvian	164
Other European language (EU): Hungarian	356
Other European language (EU): Bulgarian	403
Other European language (EU): Greek	707
Other European language (EU): Dutch	142
Other European language (EU): Swedish	64
Other European language (EU): Danish	23
Other European language (EU): Finnish	31
Other European language (EU): Estonian	13
Other European language (EU): Slovenian	27
Other European language (EU): Maltese	20
Other European language (EU): Any other European language (EU)	20
Other European language (non EU)	379
Other European language (non EU): Albanian	258
Other European language (non EU): Ukrainian	52
Other European language (non EU): Any other Eastern European language (non EU)	3
Other European language (non EU): Northern European language (non EU)	66
Other European language (EU and non-EU)	81
Other European language (EU and non-EU): Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin	81
Other European language (non-national)	3
Other European language (non-national): Any Romani language	0
Other European language (non-national): Yiddish	3
Russian	396
Turkish	500
Arabic	2,060
West or Central Asian language	1,993
West or Central Asian language: Hebrew	16
West or Central Asian language: Kurdish	1,056
West or Central Asian language: Persian or Farsi	783
West or Central Asian language: Pashto	67
West or Central Asian language: Any other West or Central Asian language	71
South Asian language	4,760
South Asian language: Urdu	527
South Asian language: Hindi	185
South Asian language: Panjabi	1,086
South Asian language: Pakistani Pahari (with Mirpuri and Potwari)	4
South Asian language: Bengali (with Sylheti and Chatgaya)	1,682
South Asian language: Gujarati	62
South Asian language: Marathi	42
South Asian language: Telugu	140
South Asian language: Tamil	379
South Asian language: Malayalam	433
South Asian language: Sinhala	75
South Asian language: Nepalese	60
South Asian language: Any other South Asian language	85
East Asian language	4,411
East Asian language: Mandarin Chinese	501
East Asian language: Cantonese Chinese	619
East Asian language: All other Chinese	1,810
East Asian language: Japanese	117
East Asian language: Korean	48
East Asian language: Vietnamese	175
East Asian language: Thai	355
East Asian language: Malay	95
East Asian language: Tagalog or Filipino	621
East Asian language: Any other East Asian language	70
Oceanic or Australian language	11
North or South American language	0
Caribbean Creole	5
Caribbean Creole: English-based Caribbean Creole	0
Caribbean Creole: Any other Caribbean Creole	5
African language	754
African language: Amharic	69
African language: Tigrinya	112
African language: Somali	5
African language: Krio	2
African language: Akan	12
African language: Yoruba	78
African language: Igbo	80
African language: Swahili or Kiswahili	29
African language: Luganda	4
African language: Lingala	33
African language: Shona	107
African language: Afrikaans	39
African language: Any other Nigerian language	31
African language: Any other West African language	44
African language: Any other African language	109
Sign language	505
Sign language: British Sign Language	416
Sign language: Any other sign language	19
Sign language: Any sign communication system	70
Other language	23

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

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