Ethnic group, Census 2021
Usual residents of England and Wales by high-level ethnic group, Census 2021 (table TS021).
White: 81.7% of 59,597,542
48,699,249
Census Day, 21 March 2021
Verified against source, 29 October 2026, 11:55 UTCSource: Office for National Statistics (Census 2021, via Nomis). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
5 rows
| Category | Usual residents |
|---|---|
| White | 48,699,249 |
| Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh | 5,515,420 |
| Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African | 2,409,278 |
| Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups | 1,717,976 |
| Other ethnic group | 1,255,619 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics (Census 2021, via Nomis)
- Check it yourself
- https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts021
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 29 October 2026, 11:47 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/output/census/2021/census2021-ts021.zipSHA-256 409a1bcc14f5920de24fafa7d67de4cf01c88b4fc24a02cd43d46d6e9d46ffff · 5,891,545 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 29 October 2026, 11:55 UTC Run at 29 October 2026, 11:55 UTC; 5 of 5 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics (Census 2021, via Nomis); Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-29T11:47:14Z; 1 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 1 of 1 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 5 of 5 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 5 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 5 of 5 figures match exactly after downloading 1 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | ONS Census API agrees | 5 of 5 categories match England plus Wales from the ONS Census API (ethnic_group_tb_6a); 3 to the person, the rest within 3 people, which is ONS's disclosure-control perturbation |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts021 – HTTP 200 |