North of Tyne: Main language (detailed)

Location Type: Combined Authorities, ONS Geographic Code: E47000011

Key Facts

All Residents	829,659
Male	406,238
Female	423,421
Households	365,954

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Combined Authorities. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within North of Tyne. 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
- North East
  Combined Authorities
Overlaps with
- Output Area at NZ117569
  Output Areas
- Output Area at NZ145648
  Output Areas
- Gilsland
  Built Up Areas
- Tyne and Wear
  Metropolitan Counties
Contains
- Northumberland
  Unitary Authorities
- Newcastle upon Tyne
  Metropolitan Districts
- North Tyneside
  Metropolitan Districts

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

Description
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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	805,985
English (English or Welsh in Wales)	766,604
Welsh or Cymraeg (in England only)	44
Other UK language	39
Other UK language: Gaelic (Irish)	2
Other UK language: Gaelic (Scottish)	6
Other UK language: Manx Gaelic	0
Other UK language: Gaelic (Not otherwise specified)	1
Other UK language: Cornish	0
Other UK language: Scots	19
Other UK language: Ulster Scots	0
Other UK language: Romany English	11
Other UK language: Irish Traveller Cant	0
French	724
Portuguese	1,535
Spanish	1,416
Other European language (EU)	11,220
Other European language (EU): Italian	996
Other European language (EU): German	443
Other European language (EU): Polish	2,601
Other European language (EU): Slovak	944
Other European language (EU): Czech	1,172
Other European language (EU): Romanian	2,465
Other European language (EU): Lithuanian	486
Other European language (EU): Latvian	161
Other European language (EU): Hungarian	228
Other European language (EU): Bulgarian	448
Other European language (EU): Greek	826
Other European language (EU): Dutch	193
Other European language (EU): Swedish	92
Other European language (EU): Danish	29
Other European language (EU): Finnish	43
Other European language (EU): Estonian	16
Other European language (EU): Slovenian	30
Other European language (EU): Maltese	16
Other European language (EU): Any other European language (EU)	31
Other European language (non EU)	304
Other European language (non EU): Albanian	181
Other European language (non EU): Ukrainian	53
Other European language (non EU): Any other Eastern European language (non EU)	2
Other European language (non EU): Northern European language (non EU)	68
Other European language (EU and non-EU)	192
Other European language (EU and non-EU): Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin	192
Other European language (non-national)	1
Other European language (non-national): Any Romani language	0
Other European language (non-national): Yiddish	1
Russian	637
Turkish	654
Arabic	3,903
West or Central Asian language	3,169
West or Central Asian language: Hebrew	12
West or Central Asian language: Kurdish	1,034
West or Central Asian language: Persian or Farsi	1,747
West or Central Asian language: Pashto	275
West or Central Asian language: Any other West or Central Asian language	101
South Asian language	8,595
South Asian language: Urdu	1,577
South Asian language: Hindi	501
South Asian language: Panjabi	1,311
South Asian language: Pakistani Pahari (with Mirpuri and Potwari)	101
South Asian language: Bengali (with Sylheti and Chatgaya)	2,617
South Asian language: Gujarati	120
South Asian language: Marathi	132
South Asian language: Telugu	776
South Asian language: Tamil	424
South Asian language: Malayalam	618
South Asian language: Sinhala	81
South Asian language: Nepalese	88
South Asian language: Any other South Asian language	249
East Asian language	5,231
East Asian language: Mandarin Chinese	435
East Asian language: Cantonese Chinese	949
East Asian language: All other Chinese	2,415
East Asian language: Japanese	99
East Asian language: Korean	85
East Asian language: Vietnamese	168
East Asian language: Thai	222
East Asian language: Malay	132
East Asian language: Tagalog or Filipino	663
East Asian language: Any other East Asian language	63
Oceanic or Australian language	3
North or South American language	0
Caribbean Creole	11
Caribbean Creole: English-based Caribbean Creole	0
Caribbean Creole: Any other Caribbean Creole	11
African language	1,301
African language: Amharic	126
African language: Tigrinya	328
African language: Somali	18
African language: Krio	2
African language: Akan	26
African language: Yoruba	67
African language: Igbo	129
African language: Swahili or Kiswahili	77
African language: Luganda	6
African language: Lingala	72
African language: Shona	96
African language: Afrikaans	40
African language: Any other Nigerian language	76
African language: Any other West African language	85
African language: Any other African language	153
Sign language	353
Sign language: British Sign Language	296
Sign language: Any other sign language	17
Sign language: Any sign communication system	40
Other language	49

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

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