Hull: Ethnic and Religious Breakdown (Hansard, 31 March 2003)

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Table KS06. Ethnic group
All people	England
	Number/percentage of people in ethnic groups
	White	Mixed
Area	All people	British	Irish	Other White	White and Black Caribbean	White and Black African	While and Asian	Other Mixed
a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i
Kingston upon Hull, City of UA	243,589	234,716	761	2,462	340	338	453	488
		96.36	0.31	1.01	0.14	0.14	0.19	0.20

	Number/percentage of people in ethnic groups
	Asian or Asian Black	Black or Black British	Chinese or other ethnic group
Area	Indian	Pakistani	Bangladeshi	Other Asian	Caribbean	African	Other Black	Chinese	Other ethnic group
a	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r
Kingston upon Hull, City of UA	613	509	387	398	155	640	77	749	503
	0.25	0.21	0.16	0.16	0.06	0.26	0.03	0.31	0.21
Data obtained from Census 2001 Key Statistics for local authorities for England and Wales

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Letter from the National Statistician, Len Cook, dated 31 March 2003.

As National Statistician and Registrar General for England and Wales I have been asked to reply to your recent Question asking what is the ethnic and religious breakdown of the population of Hull. (H L2275)

The percentage distribution of ethnic group and religion for the population of Kingston upon Hull is shown in Tables KS06 and KS07 of the 2001 Census Key Statistics for Local Authorities in England and Wales, which was published on 13 February. A copy of this report was placed in the House of Lords Library and is freely available on the National Statistics website at:

http://www.statistics.gov. uk/statbase/Expodata/ Spreadsheets/D6561.xls (Table KS06 Ethnic Group) and http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Expodata/ Spreadsheets/D6563.xls (Table KS07 Religion).

Ethnic Group

Ninety-six per cent of the population of Kingston upon Hull are White British, and a further 1 per cent are classified as Other White. The remaining three per cent of the population comprise a mix of different ethnic groups.

Religion

There are 174,758 (almost 72 per cent) people in Kingston upon Hull who are Christians with just under 20 per cent of the population with no religion. The proportion of people with religions other than Christianity is very small with only 0.9 per cent of the population who are Muslims and even fewer who are Buddhist (0.2 per cent), Hindus (0.1 per cent), Jews (0.1 per cent), Sikhs (0.1 per cent) and who have other religions (0.2 per cent). Approximately 8 per cent of the population of Kingston upon Hull did not state a religion.

I have attached copies of the relevant tables.

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Table KS07. Religion
All people	England and Wales
	Number/percentage of people stating religion as:
Area	All people	Christian	Buddhist	Hindu	Jewish	Muslim	Sikh	Other religions	No religion	Religion not stated
a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k
Kingston upon Hull, City of UA	243,589	174,758	374	257	265	2,116	227	389	44,627	20,576
		71.74	0.15	0.11	0.11	0.87	0.09	0.16	18.32	8.45
Data obtained from Census 2001 Key Statistics for local authorities for England and Wales