British Indians
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Regions with significant populations | |
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Throughout the United Kingdom In paticular London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester, Leeds, Glasgow, Preston, Sheffield, Liverpool, Nottingham, Southampton, Bristol, Newcastle upon Tyne, Slough, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Stoke on Trent, Coventry | |
Languages | |
English (British English, Indian English) · Hindi · Urdu · Gujarati and Various Other Languages of India | |
Religion | |
Hinduism · Sikhism · Christianity · Islam · Buddhism · Jainism · Zoroastrianism · Judaism and Others | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Asian British · Indian Diaspora · Demographics of India · Anglo-Indians |
Indian British or Indian Britons refer to citizens of the United Kingdom who's ancestral roots lie in the South Asian country of India. This includes people born in the UK, who are of Indian descent or Indian born people who have migrated to the UK. Today Indians number around one and a half million in the UK (not including those of mixed Indian and Other ancestry), making them the single largest ethnic minority population in the country. They make up the largest subgroup of Asian Britons, and are one of the largest Indian communities in the Indian diaspora, largely thanks to the Indian-British relations (including historical links such as India once being part of the British Empire and still being part of The Commonwealth of Nations).
History
Demographics
Ethnicity
Population
According to the 2001 UK Census 1,053,411 people (1.8% of the country's population) was of full Indian descent. Between 2001 and 2005, National Statistics has released estimates for the number of Indian's in England only. They were as follows: 2001 - 1,045,600, 2002 - 1,074,700, 2003 - 1,109,100, 2004 - 1,156,000, 2005 - 1,215,400. In 2008, including those of Partial Indian heritage, there are likely to be at least 1,500,000 in England alone, with around 1,600,000 in the UK as a whole.
Population Spread
The table below shows the dispersity of Indian people in the United Kingdom. The figures for all of the English regions, cities and boroughs are based on 2005 estimates, whilst the figures for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are from the 2001 Census.
Region | Population | Indian Population | Indians as Percentage of Population | Cities / Boroughs with Significant Indian communities |
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Greater London [1] | 7,456,100 | 480,300 | 6.4% | Harrow - 22.0% of city's population Hounslow - 18.3% Brent - 18.1% Ealing - 15.0% Redbridge - 14.3% Newham - 12.1% Hillingdon - 10.0%]] Barnet - 8.8%Croydon - 7.5% |
West Midlands [2] | 5,350,700 | 193,300 | 3.6% | |
East Midlands [3] | 4,327,500 | 136,800 | 3.2% | |
South East [4] | 8,184,600 | 122,500 | 1.5% | |
North West [5] | 6,839,800 | 90,800 | 1.3% | |
East [6] | 5,563,000 | 74,800 | 1.3% | |
Yorkshire and the Humber [7] | 5,107,500 | 67,500 | 1.3% | |
South West [8] | 5,086,700 | 33,300 | 0.7% | |
Scotland [9] | 5,094,800 | 17,000 | 0.3% | |
North East [10] | 2,549,700 | 16,200 | 0.6% | |
Wales [11] | 2,903,085 | 8,200 | 0.3% | |
Northern Ireland [12] | 1,685,267 | 1,600 | 0.1% |