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Other White is a term used in the UK census to describe white persons of non-British and non-Irish descent in Great Britain. The category does not comprise a single ethnic group but is instead a method of identification for white people who are not represented by other white Census categories. This means that the Other White group contains a diverse collection of people with different countries of birth, religions and languages.

Along with White British and White Irish, the category does not appear in Northern Ireland, where only one single "White" classification was presented to respondents.^[1]

[edit] Demographics

In the 2001 UK Census, the majority of people living in England and Wales ticking the 'Other White' ethnic group specified their ethnicity as European.^[2] Four out of five of the 'Other White' category (i.e. not British or Irish) were born overseas. A third were born in a Western European country other than the UK, and one in seven were born in an Eastern European country.^[2]

[edit] Age

The Other White group is largely of working age, with only one in ten aged over 65 and one in seven under 16. This does vary according to the stated country of birth, with people born in the UK being disproportionately young. Polish and Italian respondents had a larger proportion of over 65s, which reflects the migration of Poles and Italians to Britain after the Second World War.

[edit] Migration

In the period 1991-2001, the number of Poles in Britain declined, but since Polish accession to the EU in 2004 this trend has reversed and figures from the Home Office reveal that 264,560 Poles registered to work in Britain between 2004 and 2006. The majority of these new Polish migrants to Britain are of working age (82 per cent aged between 16 and 34), and the majority are employed.

[edit] Religion

A wide number of religions are represented in the Other White group. The largest faith group, 63 per cent, identified themselves as Christian, with 16 per cent defining themselves as without religion, nine per cent as Muslims, and two per cent as Jewish.

[edit] Increase

The lists below contain by how much the 'Other White' population in each of England's region has increased in the 2004-05 period, as well as the 10 towns and cities with the fastest growing 'Other White' communities - England average is 7.2%.^[3]

By region

• Yorkshire and the Humber 12.4% growth rate
• South West England 11.6%
• North East England 11.3%
• East Midlands 9.9%
• North West England 9.5%
• East of England 8.6%
• West Midlands 8.2%
• South East England 7.9%
• Greater London 4.2%

By towns and cities

• Exeter 28.2%
• Lancaster 20.1%
• Colchester 19.4%
• Kingston upon Hull 17.2%
• Durham 17.0%
• Leeds 16.8%
• Bristol 16.0%
• Barrow-in-Furness 15.9%
• Plymouth 15.9%
• Newcastle upon Tyne 15.5%

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• 2001 UK Census
• Census 2001 Ethnic Codes
• White British
• British Mixed
• British Asian
• Black British
• Latin American Briton