Tower Hamlets: Proficiency in English

Location Type: Built Up Areas, ONS Geographic Code: E63004898

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Key Facts

All Residents	328,995
Male	165,139
Female	163,862
Households	129,481

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Built Up Areas. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within Tower Hamlets. 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
- London
  Regions
- Tower Hamlets
  London Boroughs
Borders with
- City and County of the City of London
  Built Up Areas
- Southwark
  Built Up Areas
- Newham
  Built Up Areas
- Islington
  Built Up Areas
- Camden
  Built Up Areas
- Hackney
  Built Up Areas
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- Tower Hamlets 033B
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- Tower Hamlets 001B
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- Tower Hamlets 036A
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- Tower Hamlets 030D
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- Tower Hamlets 030C
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- Tower Hamlets 030B
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- Tower Hamlets 030A
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- Islington 020D
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- Islington 023E
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- Islington 023D
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- Islington 023B
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- Islington 023A
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- Hackney 018D
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- Hackney 023B
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- Hackney 032D
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- Tower Hamlets 003D
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- Tower Hamlets 003E
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- Tower Hamlets 025F
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- Tower Hamlets 025E
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- Tower Hamlets 004E
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- City of London 001F
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- Tower Hamlets 025D
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- Tower Hamlets 027C
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- Tower Hamlets 027B
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- Tower Hamlets 027A
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- Tower Hamlets 032A
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- Tower Hamlets 033A
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- Tower Hamlets 031C
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- Tower Hamlets 023D
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- Tower Hamlets 018C
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- Tower Hamlets 018A
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- Hackney 033A
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- Hackney 024C
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- Hackney 024B
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- Output Area at TQ384815
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- City of London 001C
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- City of London 001B
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- City of London 001A
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- Output Area at TQ332805
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- Output Area at TQ322819
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- Output Area at TQ319817
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- City of London
  London Boroughs
- Bow East
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- Blackwall & Cubitt Town
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- Tower
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- Portsoken
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- Cripplegate
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- Coleman Street
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- Bishopsgate
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- Aldersgate
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- Cubitt Town
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- Blackwall
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- Leamouth
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- Shoreditch
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- Hoxton South & East
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- Canary Wharf
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- Bow West
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- Canary Wharf
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- St Peter's & Canalside
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- Bunhill
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- Hoxton West
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- Hoxton East & Shoreditch
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- Haggerston
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- St Katharine's & Wapping
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- Limehouse
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- Island Gardens
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- Millwall North
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- Millwall South
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- Mudchute
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- Islington 020G
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- Hackney 026H
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- Hackney 023G
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- Hackney 032C
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- Hackney 033C
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- Hackney 033B
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- Islington 022H
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- Tower Hamlets 031G
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- Tower Hamlets 033D
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- Tower Hamlets 033C
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- Tower Hamlets 035D
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- Tower Hamlets 035C
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- Tower Hamlets 034D
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- Tower Hamlets 001E
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- Tower Hamlets 008F
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- Tower Hill & Wapping South
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- Shadwell Basin & Ratcliffe
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- Limehouse East
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- Bow West
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- Bow North & Fish Island
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- Old Street & St Luke's
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- Hoxton North & West
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- Haggerston East
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- London Fields & Mare Street
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- City of London
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- Tower Hamlets 034C
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- Tower Hamlets 034B
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- Tower Hamlets 034A
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- Tower Hamlets 023F
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- Tower Hamlets 031F
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- Output Area at TQ335829
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- Output Area at TQ369805
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- Output Area at TQ353807
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Contains
- Bethnal Green
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Whitechapel
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Bromley North
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Bromley South
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Lansbury
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Mile End
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Poplar
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- St Dunstan's
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Weavers
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Stepney Green
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Spitalfields & Banglatown
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Shadwell
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- St Peter's
  Electoral Wards/Divisions
- Bromley-by-Bow West
  Middle layer Super Output Areas
- Bethnal Green Central
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- Mile End West
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- Brick Lane North
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- Bromley-by-Bow East
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- Bethnal Green East
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- Bethnal Green North West
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- Bow South
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- Bethnal Green North East
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- Bethnal Green South
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- Mile End East & Burdett Estate
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- Spitalfields
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- Columbia Road
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- St George in the East & Wapping North
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- Poplar West
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- Shadwell North
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- Aldgate
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- Poplar Central
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- Limehouse North & Stepney East
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- Poplar Leaside
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- Whitechapel
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- Stepney Green
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Table Code	ts029
Issued	2022-11-29
Unit of Measure	Person
Number of Response Options	6

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

Summary

How well people whose main language is not English (English or Welsh in Wales) speak English.

Proficiency in English language: Total: All usual residents aged 3 years and over	316,997
Main language is English (English or Welsh in Wales)	232,129
Main language is not English (English or Welsh in Wales)	84,868
Main language is not English (English or Welsh in Wales): Can speak English very well	39,971
Main language is not English (English or Welsh in Wales): Can speak English well	25,764
Main language is not English (English or Welsh in Wales): Cannot speak English well	15,979
Main language is not English (English or Welsh in Wales): Cannot speak English	3,154

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

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