1 2011 Census Briefing Note 1.2 : Ethnicity, National Identity, Country of Birth and Religion The releases of 2011 Census data on 11 December 2012 and 30 January 2013 include a range of key statistics for local authority districts and small areas within them. This briefing note covers the information provided so far for Sheffield on ethnicity, national identity and country of birth. Ethnic Group The 2011 Census asked about the ethnicity of everyone in the population. The White British population now represents 80.8% of the Sheffield total, down from 89.2% in 2001. The chart shows the number of people in 2011 in each of the Census minority ethnic groups compared with 2001.
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2011 Census Briefing Note 1.2 : Ethnicity, National Identity, Country of Birth and Religion
The releases of 2011 Census data on 11 December 2012 and 30 January 2013 include a range of key
statistics for local authority districts and small areas within them. This briefing note covers the
information provided so far for Sheffield on ethnicity, national identity and country of birth.
Ethnic Group
The 2011 Census asked about the ethnicity of everyone in the population. The White British
population now represents 80.8% of the Sheffield total, down from 89.2% in 2001. The chart shows
the number of people in 2011 in each of the Census minority ethnic groups compared with 2001.
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The Pakistani community remains the largest minority ethnic group in the city, now representing 4%
of the total population in 2011, whilst the Other White group is still the second largest. The latter is
likely to have changed significantly in its constitution, with a greater proportion of Eastern European
immigrants since 2001.
The pattern below these two groups has changed. The Black African group is now the third largest,
having increased by two and a half times since 2001. This group includes the Somali community. The
Arab, Chinese, Indian and Other Asian groups have also doubled in the last ten years. A significant
element of this increase has been overseas students.
The Black Caribbean group, which was the third largest minority community in the city in 2001, has
barely increased at all in the last ten years, although the Mixed White and Black Caribbean group has
gone up by 49%. The population described as Other black has also increased substantially.
The White Irish group is the only one of the minority communities to have got smaller. The majority
White British group also reduced slightly over the last ten years.
Wards and Neighbourhoods
The ward with the highest proportion of Black or Minority Ethnic people is Burngreave at 62%. In
Darnall and Central wards almost half of the population is BME; in Walkley, Nether Edge and Firth
Park over a quarter. At the other end of the spectrum, less than 5 percent of the population are in
BME groups in Stocksbridge and Upper Don, East and West Ecclesfield and Birley wards.
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Almost a quarter of the population in Burngreave ward is of Pakistani origin. There are also large
Pakistani communities in Darnall and Nether Edge. Burngreave ward also has the largest Black
African and Arab communities. There are large numbers of Chinese, Indian and Arab people in
Central ward. Many of these are likely to be students. Walkley ward also has large Chinese and Arab
communities.
Within some Neighbourhoods of Burngreave and Darnall wards, around three-quarter of the
population are within BME communities.
National Identity
National identity is a relatively new concept for the UK Census. The question predominantly aims to
break down the White British ethnic group to identify the parts of the UK that residents identify with
the most.
National Identity Number %
English only 348,911 63.1%
Welsh only 1,592 0.3%
Scottish only 2,564 0.5%
Northern Irish only 693 0.1%
British only 97,709 17.7%
Cornish only 20 0.0%
Irish Only 1,636 0.3%
Other only 40,453 7.3%
Mixed identities 59,120 10.7%
Total 552,698 100%
Almost 18% saw identified themselves as British, with no further reference to the countries of the
British Isles. Only 7.3% did not identify themselves as any these British countries but as exclusively
‘Other’.
United Kingdom passports are held three-quarters of Sheffield’s population. A further 19 percent did
not hold a passport at all. This leaves 34,700 usual residents holding overseas passports. Almost half
of these hold passports for Middle Eastern or Asian countries. Most are likely to be overseas students
from China, India or the Middle East. More than 11,000 people hold passports for other EU countries.
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Country of Birth
As well as recording ethnicity, the 2011 Census asks about residents’ country of birth. More than 88
percent of Sheffield residents were born in the UK, most of them in England. Over 4,500 were born in
Scotland and 2,900 in Wales. 13,800 people were born in other parts of the EU, leaving around
50,700 born in other countries.
Of the other European born residents, a large number were from accession countries since April
2001, with the largest number from Poland. The African born residents came from all over the
continent, the largest number being around 2,400 from Somalia. Those born in the Middle East or
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Asia were also widely spread; 8,700 were born in Pakistan, 5,500 were born in China or Hong Kong
and around 4,000 in India. Over 7,000 were born in the Middle East. 2,200 were born in the
Caribbean.
Migration
The 2011 Census asks for the first time about migration to the UK. The questions cover three aspects
of migration:
Length of residence in the UK
Year of arrival in the UK
Age on arrival in the UK
There are 64,522 migrants living in Sheffield. Almost 40 percent of them have lived in the UK for ten
years or more; 19 percent have been here for less than two years.
The chart shows when Sheffield migrants first arrived in the UK. As the time periods are differing
lengths, the red bars show the numbers each year within the time period. Up until 1990, the
numbers remained relatively small, at around 400 or less each year. From that point inwards, the
number of migrants has increased fairly rapidly. There were more than 8,500 migrants in the last 15
months.
Around 30 percent of Sheffield migrants arrived in the UK as children. The most common ages for
migrants to arrive in the UK are between 16 and 29. A large proportion of these migrants will be
overseas students at the two universities, although some will be economic migrants from Europe.
Few people migrate to the UK aged 45 or over.
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Religion
A Census question on religion was asked for the first time in 2001. This is therefore the first time we
have been able to measure the change over the ten year period.
Christian Buddhist Hindu Jewish Muslim Sikh Other None