please empty your brain below
My former London home was in Ealing, which doesn't appear, so is it an "average ethicity" borough? (Though I've spotted that Merton, Sutton, Wandsworth and H&F aren't there either, so maybe it's a West/Southwest thing?)

Ian | 03.03.19 - 8:53 a.m. | #

This proves that London boroughs are very variable when it comes to ethnicity, but why?

Boxer | 03.03.19 - 10:19 a.m. | #

I've always felt comfortable in Islington.

Frank F | 03.03.19 - 10:41 a.m. | #

Whenever I am asked my ethnicity or religion, I instinctively want to say "none of your business". But usually I do not, because I recognise that collecting this data can contribute to public awareness of inappropriate discrimination. And that has to be a good thing.

But that is really the only good reason, and I wish it wasn't necessary. But, sadly, it is.

Malcolm | 03.03.19 - 10:54 a.m. | #

I wonder how christian the most chrsitian borough of Havering is. I suspect it's a case of I'm not really religious - put me down as C of E.

Martin | 03.03.19 - 11:05 a.m. | #

Most of these surveys are not fit for purpose and based on decades old (Commonwealth?) classifications.

"White: includes White British, Irish, Gypsy or Irish Traveller, and Other" for instance is a pretty poor summary.

Where does South America fit in (430m Latins), and is Arab so insignificant an ethnic origin to be part of 'other'?

scrumpy | 03.03.19 - 11:17 a.m. | #

Living in one of the "Highest proportion of Asian" boroughs, (which I think is only around 25%) I'm always surprised how the statistics are always so much lower than the perception.

Regardless of ethnicity though, English is usually way down the list of languages you'll hear on the bus!

dg writes: Redbridge 49%, Tower Hamlets 48%, Harrow 42%, Newham 41%, Hounslow 35%.

Cornish Cockney | 03.03.19 - 11:31 a.m. | #

Scrumpy, you are also missing out the east and west Europeans. At one of my Redbridge social venues more or less all the white people are from European countries.

B | 03.03.19 - 11:39 a.m. | #

@B Government summary, not mine.
I agree, and for instance Gypsy's migrated via Balkans from India well over a thousand years ago, and share common language traits with Hindi and Punjabi. Correct category?

scrumpy | 03.03.19 - 12:05 p.m. | #

Amazed about Lambeth having the lowest Asian population - especially as only a few miles from the 'Asian belt' on North Croydon centered on Norbury. I'm also surprised about Bexley being Whiter than Bromley - but that's probably because I always forget Penge/Anerley/Crystal Palace are in Bromley not Croydon/Lambeth.

Jacob Lamsden | 03.03.19 - 12:06 p.m. | #

I always pause when I'm asked for my background using whatever the current term is - rarely clear whether genetic or cultural.

Born here, of parents born here of grandparents either born here or came to London when they were infants before 1880ish - no-one now knows. So I'm a Londoner culturally, the only place I've ever lived.

But... Genetically I'm a mix of northern and eastern European, and have some third-hand knowledge of overseas lifestyles. My face and appearance is such that wherever I travel, home and abroad, someone stops me to ask the way, perhaps in an incomprehensible language. Those who can say it then explain they asked me because I look like I'm a local.

Oddly, never felt alien anywhere, or not until someone is 'difficult'. And that soon passes.

Joel | 03.03.19 - 12:06 p.m. | #

What's London's most Jedi Borough?

TheLupineOne | 03.03.19 - 12:21 p.m. | #

I've added an extra category - London borough populations by country of birth.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.03.19 - 12:27 p.m. | #

Brexit...

Geofftech | 03.03.19 - 12:56 p.m. | #

Are there similar statistics available for post codes?

dg writes: No, but other subdivisions are available. Here's a couple of maps to play with...
London - ethnicity
London - country of birth

Paul | 03.03.19 - 1:51 p.m. | #

Havering is whiter just because the old eastenders moved further out after the war. That was the aspiration back then

Saying that its the league of nations where i live of course a lower then average ethnic mix but still a mix and everyone is pleasant

John Thomas | 03.03.19 - 3:39 p.m. | #

It's not technically a London borough, but here is the data for the City of London: [pdf]

I don't expect things will have changed much since 2011

Barbican Man | 03.03.19 - 4:33 p.m. | #

I don't get it about Havering. Just after WW2, most of greater London had a population which would have fallen into the "white" category. People in other categories have moved in since, but why not so many in Havering? Would the former east-enders in Havering have made them any less welcome than people in other parts of London?

Malcolm | 03.03.19 - 6:26 p.m. | #

Malcolm, it might have been down to the %age of social and private rented property. I know LBTH had a very high %age of social housing right up to mid 1980's then Right to Buy and the development of Docklands came along. LBTH also had schemes to give priority to families of those already living there. Thus, post 1970's influx of Bangladeshi residents became more & more concentrated in the borough.

B | 03.03.19 - 7:28 p.m. | #

"Are there similar statistics available for post codes?
dg writes: No, but other subdivisions are available.

Scroll to the bottom of the link below and on the left hand side you can extract a CSV for anything from wards to postcode sectors.

http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/qs211ew

Chro | 03.03.19 - 11:47 p.m. | #

Splendid, thanks.

It seems I'm one of 2089 White British residents in postcode sector E3 3.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.03.19 - 11:54 p.m. | #

 WhiteAsianBlackMixed/ Other
Highest
proportion		SW14 (89%)
SW13
EC4
EC2
SE9		E12 (58%)
E7
E6
E1
E14		SE28 (42%)
SE15
SE25
SW9
SE6		W2 (20%)
W9
W10
NW8
W3
Lowest
proportion		E12 (20%)
E7
E6
E13
NW9		SE24 (4%)
SW14
SW2
SW4
SW13		EC3 (1%)
EC4
SW14
SW13
W8		EC4 (5%)
SE9
SW14
SW20
SW12

...and by religion
London's most Christian postcode district: SE28
London's most Hindu postcode district: NW9
London's most Jewish postcode district: NW11
London's most Muslim postcode district: E12
London's most Sikh postcode district: E12
London's most Buddhist postcode district: SE8
London's most irreligious postcode district: EC2

...and by country of birth
born in the UK: SE9 (83%) (then E4, SW14, SE3)
born outside UK: SW7 (63%) (then SW5, W2, W1)
born in the EU: SW5 (24%) (then SW7, EC3, N22)

NB: 2011 census data for usual residents with a London postal address; aggregating postcode districts with an alphabetical suffix; surmising that “in the EU” means “in what would now be the EU27” etc, but suspect we’ve used different definitions of “Mixed/Other”. E&OE.

Rich G | Homepage | 04.03.19 - 1:14 a.m. | #

In answer to thelupineone, possibly Harrow,Hillingdon or Ealing, because the Jedi shop is near the Target roundabout on the A40

Keith | 04.03.19 - 2:34 p.m. | #











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