Regional distribution of minority ethnic groups in Great Britain, 1991
Region/metropolitan county | All minorities | Black Caribbean | Black African | Black Other | Indian | Pakistani | Bangladeshi | Chinese | Other Asian | Other Other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
South East | 31.4 | 66.3 | 83.5 | 56.6 | 52.9 | 29.9 | 63.6 | 53.3 | 72.4 | 57.9 |
Greater London | 12.2 | 58.2 | 77.1 | 45.2 | 41.3 | 18.4 | 52.7 | 36.1 | 57.1 | 41.7 |
East Anglia | 3.7 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 4.0 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 2.6 |
South West | 8.4 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 4.3 | 2.3 | 4.3 |
West Midlands | 9.4 | 15.6 | 2.5 | 10.5 | 18.9 | 20.7 | 11.9 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 8.4 |
West Midlands MC | 4.6 | 14.4 | 1.9 | 8.8 | 16.8 | 18.5 | 11.1 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 6.5 |
East Midlands | 7.2 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 6.0 | 11.8 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 4.8 | 3.7 | 4.9 |
Yorkshire & Humberside | 8.8 | 4.3 | 2.3 | 5.7 | 4.8 | 19.9 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 3.7 | 6.2 |
South Yorkshire | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 1.6 |
West Yorkshire | 3.7 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 16.9 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 3.6 |
North West | 11.4 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 9.0 | 6.6 | 16.2 | 9.1 | 11.1 | 4.5 | 8.2 |
Greater Manchester | 4.6 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 5.2 | 3.5 | 10.4 | 7.0 | 5.3 | 2.5 | 4.4 |
Merseyside | 2.6 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 3.6 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
North | 5.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
Tyne & Wear | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
Wales | 5.2 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 2.6 |
Scotland | 9.1 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 4.4 | 0.7 | 6.7 | 2.3 | 3.0 |
Great Britain | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Source: 1991 Census of Population Local Base Statistics (Crown Copyright; ESRC/JISC purchase)
Note: Bold figures show where the share of the population of a minority ethnic group in a given region exceeds the corresponding regional share for white people, and thus indicates the regional concentration of the minority ethnic group relative to white people. For example, more than two-thirds of Black-Caribbean people lived in Greater London, which contained only 10.3 per cent of the white population of Great Britain.
Also note that italicised lines are for metropolitan counties located within a region - thus West Midlands MC is the metropolitan county located within the West Midlands standard region. Population shares for regions sum to 100 per cent. The term 'region' is used as a shorthand - Wales and Scotland are countries, but of a similar population size to most regions in England.