How has ethnic diversity grown 1991-2001-2011?

DYNAMICS OF DIVERSITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE 2011 CENSUS

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This briefing uses recently published data from the 2011 Census to show change in the ethnic diversity of England and Wales since 1991. We find that:

  • In 2011, one-in-five people (20%) identified with an ethnic group other than White British compared with 13% in 2001.
  • The population with ethnic background other than White (White British, White Irish and White Other) has doubled in size since 1991 from 3 to 7 million, while remaining a minority of the total population (14%).
  • The African ethnic group has grown faster than any other minority group in the last two decades, doubling in each decade to reach 990,000 in 2011.
  • There has been continued ethnic group mixing within families and neighbourhoods. The number of people identifying with a ‘Mixed’ ethnic category has increased by almost a half since 2001 to more than a million.
  • The ‘Other’ ethnic group categories – ‘White Other’, ‘Other Black’, ‘Other Asian’, ‘Other Mixed’ and ‘Other’ have all increased, in total by over 2 million in the last 10 years. The existing ethnic group categories are, perhaps, becoming increasingly less meaningful for many people.
  • The residential areas with the greatest growth of ethnic minority groups are those areas where they were fewest in 2001, particularly in parts of East Anglia.
  • Ethnic minority groups remain clustered in certain diverse urban areas. In most Inner London Boroughs, and in Slough, Luton and Leicester no one ethnic group accounts for the majority of the population.

Published : 31st December 2012

Publisher : Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE)  [ More From This Publisher ]

Commissioner : Joseph Rowntree Foundation  [ More From This Commissioner ]

Rights : Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE)

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