The changing ethnic composition of an area is a guide to changing needs inasmuch as it may indicate a variety of preferences for housing size, for types of school meals, for care of older people, for cultural and entertainment facilities, for funeral services or for other aspects of local services.
- Britain’s cities are more ethnically diverse than ever before. Slough, Luton and Leicester are the first local authorities outside London which are already plural where no ethnic group is in the majority.
- The census itself has changed how Britain’s diversity is measured by dividing White into White British, Irish, Gypsy and Irish Traveller, and Other White.
- The number of England and Wales residents who have a British national identity is six million more than the number who tick White British as an ethnicity.
- Britain’s cities are not becoming less British. 81% of Luton’s residents have a British national identity while 45% are of White British ethnicity.
- Cities labelled by politicians as ‘segregated’ are in fact the most diverse. For example Bradford and Leicester both have more than a thousand residents from each of fifteen ethnic categories measured in the census, and over thirty thousand residents from diverse groups that the census labels as ‘Mixed’ or ‘Other White’, ‘Other Asian’, ‘Other Black’ or simply ‘Other’.
- Increased diversity over a decade is small but steady: every local authority except Forest Heath has increased its diversity since 2001.
Published : 30th January 2013
Publisher : Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) [ More From This Publisher ]
Commissioner : Joseph Rowntree Foundation [ More From This Commissioner ]
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