News: 2011 Census: England and Wales

J a y

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The Office for National Statistics have released its second set of findings from the 2011 census for England and Wales, covering religion, ethnicity, living arrangements and economic activity, among other areas. You can find the full details here, but here are the key points:

Population

• Population of England and Wales was 56.1m in 2011.

• Population up 7% since 2001.

Religion

• Christians down 13 percentage points to 59%.

• Respondents with no religion up 10 points to 25%.

• Muslim population up from 3% to 5%.

Ethnicity

• White ethnic group down five points to 86%.

• Whites in London 59.8%.

• 80% in England and Wales are white British, down seven points.

• In London white British figure is 45%, down from 58% in 2001.

• Other ethnic groups in England and Wales: Asian 6.8% (2001: 4.4%), black 3.4% (2001: 2.2%), Chinese 0.7% (2001: 0.4%), Arab 0.4%.

• 2.2% in England and Wales are mixed race (up from 1.27% in 2001).

• 12% of households had partners or household members of different ethnic groups, three points up from 2001.

Nationality

• One in three Londoners born in foreign country.

• Figure is one in 20 for north-east.

• 13% in England and Wales born outside UK.

• Just over half of these arrived in last 10 years.

• India, Poland and Pakistan are top three countries foreign-born people in England and Wales come from.

• 7.4% of people in England and Wales hold non-UK passport.

Language

• In 91% of households, everyone speaks English. In 4% no one speaks English as main language.

Age

• 16% are 65 or over.

Home ownership

• Number of households with a mortgage falls from 39% to 33%.

• Home ownership (including owning home outright) falls from 69% to 64%.

• Those owning home outright rises from 29% to 31%.

• Renters rise from 9% to 15%.

• In inner London more people rent than have mortgages (29.2% v 19.4%).

Marriage

• 46.6% are married, down from 50.9% in 2001.

• 0.2% (105,000) in a civil partnership.

Health

• 81% in good or very good health. (Category changed since 2001.)

• 18% have a limiting long-term illness (same figure as 2001).

• 10% say they provide unpaid care for someone with an illness or disability (same figure as 2001).

Education

• 27% have degree-level qualifications; 23% have no qualifications.

Transport

• Number of cars and vans has increased from 11 per 10 households to 12 per 10 households.

• London only region where number of cars and vans is lower than number of households.

The Guardian

Cal

Good tea.

toanythingtaboo

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Religion

• Christians down 13 percentage points to 59%.

• Respondents with no religion up 10 points to 25%.

• Muslim population up from 3% to 5%.

Interesting. I'm guessing the 59% figure are households which identify as Christian background, not practising, because I find that majority hard to believe considering I know like...3? people my age who identify.

Brando

Not here for just england and wales

What happened to the other 2 regions?

Jack. Bauer

This is some good tea. I can't say the majority of it surprises me though. A 7% popularity increase is good though - most countries experience larger increases over the same amount of time.

J a y

176,632 people in England and Wales put their religion as Jedi Knight

Poe Dameron

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Originally posted by J a y

176,632 people in England and Wales put their religion as Jedi Knight

J a y

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Originally posted by Brando

Not here for just england and wales

What happened to the other 2 regions?

Statistics for Northern Ireland have been published here.

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As the BBC reports, the NI census shows a drop of 5% in the Protestant population and a rise of 1% among Catholics.

That means 48% are now either Protestant or were brought up Protestant, while 45% are Catholic or were brought up Catholic.

The BBC's Mark Devenport writes:

One of the reasons for the decline in the Protestant population is that it is an older community with higher mortality.

The census asked about national identity for the first time. The figures were:

British only: 40%.
Irish only: 25%.
Northern Irish only: 21%.

The population of Northern Ireland had increased by 7.5% from 2001 to 1.811 million.

Scotland's Census will be published next week.

JungleDisturbia

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Nationality

• One in three Londoners born in foreign country.

• 13% in England and Wales born outside UK.

• Just over half of these arrived in last 10 years.

I'm hopefully going to be part of these statistics one day.