2011 Census: Results for Ethnicity, National Identity and Religion for Wales

The following summary is based on the answers to the questions on ethnicity, national identity, and religion for individuals (as distinct from the household questions).

• Between 2001 and 2011 the percentage of the population of Wales describing their ethnic group as White British fell from 96.0 per cent to 93.2 per cent.
• Non-white (including mixed) ethnic groups represented 4.0 per cent of the population in 2011, up from 2.1 per cent in 2001.
• Those describing their ethnic group as Asian are the second largest ethnic group in Wales. Between 2001 and 2011 the percentage of the population of Wales describing their ethnic group as Asian doubled from 1.1 per cent (32,000) to 2.3 per cent (71,000).
• Nearly two-thirds (66 per cent, 2.0 million) of the residents of Wales expressed their national identity as Welsh in 2011. Of these 218,000 also reported that they considered themselves to be British.
• A third of the population of Wales (34.1 per cent) said that they had no Welsh identity.
• Between 2001 and 2011 the percentage of the population of Wales giving their religion as Christian fell from 71.9 per cent to 57.6 per cent.
• Between 2001 and 2011 the percentage of the population of Wales saying that they had no religion increased by nearly half a million (from 18.5 per cent to 32.1 per cent).

This Bulletin was not published at 9:30am due to ICT technical issues. As this constitutes a breach of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, the report issued to the UK Statistics Authority can be found below.

Further information

Office for National Statistics website: 2011 Census, Key Statistics for Unitary Authorities in Wales

UK Statistics Authority website: Breach report

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5058
E-mail: stats.popcensus@wales.gsi.gov.uk

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