Demographics of Nottingham

Nottingham, England is an ethnically and culturally diverse city. It is the sixteenth most populous city in the United Kingdom.

Population

Nottingham's total population, according to the 2011 UK census, was 305,680. The population density was 4,073 people per square km.

Ethnicity

The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 1991, 2001, 2011, and 2021 censuses in Nottingham. Nottingham is a majority White city with a majority of 65.8%, the largest ethnicity of which is the White British at 57.3%. However, this majority has been in decline since post-war migration began to the UK. Asian British residents have risen from 5.1% in 1991 to 14.9% in 2021. Black British residents have also risen with the majority of growth coming from Black Africans, going from 4.6% in 1991 to 10.0% in 2021. Mixed and Other ethnicities have also risen as a percentage of the population, although the Mixed proportion fell slightly between 2011 and 2021.
A Home Office report officially estimated that the 'coloured' population of Nottingham in 1958 was likely around 4,000 to 5,000, the overwhelming majority being Afro-Caribbean, and a number of Pakistanis.
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Languages

The most common main languages spoken in Nottingham according to the 2011 census are shown below.

Rank	Language	Usual residents aged 3+	Proportion
1	English	256,411	87.40%
2	Polish	6,548	2.23%
3	Urdu	4,089	1.39%
4	Punjabi	2,453	0.84%
5	Arabic	2,372	0.78%
6	Persian	915	0.31%
7	Kurdish	899	0.31%
8	French	858	0.29%
9	Portuguese	820	0.28%
10	Pakistani Pahari	694	0.24%
11	Greek	687	0.23%
12	Cantonese Chinese	609	0.21%
13	Spanish	557	0.19%
14	Italian	556	0.19%
15	Turkish	523	0.18%
16	Malay	509	0.17%
17	Bengali (with Sylheti and Chatgaya)	485	0.17%
18	Gujarati	464	0.16%
19	Lithuanian	461	0.16%
20	Hindi	460	0.16%
	Other	12,092	4.12%

Religion

The following table shows the religion of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 censuses in Nottingham.