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This article lists United Kingdom locations with large and/or significant ethnic minority communities.

Bangladeshi communities

Bangladeshi London

See also: Bangladeshi British, Lists of U.K. locations with large South Asian populations, all data below is based on 2005 estimates and is for Bangladeshi people in the UK regardless of birthplace.^[1]

• London - 166,900 (2.2% of the city's population)
  • Tower Hamlets - 65,000 (30% of the borough's population, and possibly the largest most compact Bangladeshi community in the diaspora)
  • Newham - 22,500 (10%)
  • Camden - 12,600 (6%)
• Birmingham - 22,700 (2%)
• Oldham - 10,700 (5%)
• Luton - 8,000 (4%)
• Bradford - 5,500 (1%)
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne - 2,900 (1%)

Black communities

Afro-Caribbean Leicester

See: Lists of U.K. locations with large Black British populations

Jamaican communities

See also: Jamaican British, all data below is based on 2005 estimates and is for Jamaican people in the UK regardless of birthplace.^[2]

• London - 230,000 (3.1% of the city's population)
  • Brixton
  • Gospel Oak
  • Tottenham
• West Midlands conurbation - 60,000 (2.6%)
  • Birmingham - 26,000 (2.6)
  • Lozells
  • Handsworth
• Greater Manchester - 10,000 (0.4%)
  • Manchester - 5,000 (1.1%)
  • Moss Side

Chinese communities

Chinese Liverpool

See also: Chinese British, all data below is based on 2005 estimates and is for Chinese people in the UK regardless of birthplace.^[3]

• London - 107,100 (1.4% of the city's population)
  • Barnet - 7,600 (2.3%)
  • Westminster - 7,300 (3.2%)
  • Southwark - 6,800 (2.6%)
  • Camden - 6,000 (2.7%)
  • Tower Hamlets - 4,900 (2.3%)
  • Kensington and Chelsea - 4,700 (2.7%)
  • Ealing - 4,400 (1.4%)
  • Islington - 4,300 (2.3%)
  • Brent - 3,500 (1.3%)
  • Lambeth - 3,500 (1.3%)
  • Lewisham - 3,500 (1.4%)
  • Greenwich - 3,400 (1.5%)
  • Haringey - 3,400 (1.5%)
  • Newham - 3,400 (1.4%)
• Manchester - 10,800 (2.3%), 19,800 in metro area (0.8%)
• Birmingham - 10,700 (1.1%)
• Liverpool - 6,800 (1.5%)
• Sheffield - 5,100 (1.0%)
• Oxford - 4,200 (2.9%)
• Cambridge - 3,600 (3.1%)
• Newcastle upon Tyne - 3,100 (1.1%)

Filipino communities

See also: Filipino British

• London - Over 120,000 ethnic Filipinos regardless of birthplace^[4]
  • Earl's Court - Single largest Filipino community in the UK
• Cambridge - Between 3,000 and 5,000, largest community for a small city^[5]
• Barrow-in-Furness - 1,000 in urban area, largest community for a large town^[6]
• Bristol
• Liverpool
• Manchester
• Birmingham
• Leeds
• Slough

Indian communities

See also: Indian British, Lists of U.K. locations with large South Asian populations, all data below is based on 2005 estimates and is for Indian people in the UK regardless of birthplace.^[7]

• London - 480,300 (6.4% of city's population)
  • Harrow - 47,100 (22.0%)
  • Brent - 48,900 (18.1%)
  • Ealing - 45,800 (15.0%)
  • Hounslow - 39,700 (18.3%)
  • Redbridge - 35,700 (14.3%)
  • Newham - 30,300 (12.1%)
  • Barnet - 28,600 (8.8%)
  • Croydon - 25,100 (7.5%)
  • Hillingdon - 24,700 (10.0%)
• Leicester - 71,200 (24.9%)
• Birmingham - 59,800 (6.0%), 193,300 in metro area (3.6%)
• Wolverhampton - 28,400 (12.0%)
• Coventry - 24,800 (8.1%)
• Slough - 17,500 (14.7%)
• Kirklees - 16,500 (4.2%)
• Leeds - 16,000 (2.2%)
• Bolton - 15,600 (5.9%)
• Blackburn - 14,400 (10.2%)
• Bradford - 14,100 (2.9%)
• Walsall - 14,000 (5.5%)
• Preston - 10,900 (8.3%)
• Manchester - 10,200 (2.3%)
• Derby - 9,500 (4.0%)
• Nottingham - 8,500 (3.0%)
• Charnwood - 8,000 (5.0%)
• Bristol - 7,700 (1.9%)
• Bedford - 6,500 (4.3%)
• Oadby and Wigston - 6,300 (11.2%)
• Sheffield - 5,700 (1.1%)
• Trafford - 5,200 (2.4%)

Iraqi communities

Iraqi london

See also: Iraqi British, all data below is based on estimates and is for Iraqi people in the UK regardless of birthplace.^[8]

• London - 125,000 (1.8% of city's population)
• Birmingham - 35,000 (3.5%)
• Manchester - 18,000 (4.0%)
• Cardiff - 9,000 (2.8%)
• Glasgow - 5,000 (0.9%)
• Derby - 2,000 (0.9%)
• Plymouth - 2,000 (0.8%)

Irish communities

See also: Irish British. This is a fairly controversial ethnic group, as in the 2001 UK Census only 869,093 people in Britain called themselves Irish (mostly people born in the ROI), but it is thought that over 6 million Britons are at least 1/4 Irish (10% of the population), also the majority of Northern Ireland's citizens are of course Irish, and Northern Irealand being part of the UK also means that true figures are hard to calculate. However the list below does show how many people of Irish descent are thought to live in the UK's largest cities.^[9]

• London - 900,000 (12% of city's population)^[10]
• Liverpool - An overwhealming majority of its 400,000 inhabitants^[11]
• Manchester - 160,000 (35% of city's population), 900,000 in metro^[12]

Italian communities

See also: Italian British

• London - 39,000 Italian born people only^[13]
• Manchester - 25,000 Italians and British born Italians^[14]
• Bedford - 14,000 (20% of town's population is of Italian origin)^[15]
• Peterborough - Unknown numbers, but thought to be the largest percentage of any UK location
• Glasgow - A large percentage of the 35,000+ Italian Scots
• Swansea - Uknown, but large numbers of Italian descent
• Liverpool - 6,000 Italian born people only^[16]
• Bristol - 6,000 Italian born people only^[17]

Korean communities

See also: Korean British

• London - An estimated 60,000 of the 100,000 Korean Britons recide here (around 0.9% of the city's population)
  • Kingston-upon-Thames - 20,000 (12.9%), with 8,000 in New Malden
  • Golders Green
  • Merton

Latin American & Hispanic communities

See also: Latin American British Hispanic British

Pakistani communities

See also: Pakistani British, Lists of U.K. locations with large South Asian populations, all data below is based on 2005 estimates and is for Pakistani people in the UK regardless of birthplace.^[18]

• London - 163,800 (2.2% of the city's population)
  • Newham - 21,000 (8.7%)
  • Waltham Forest - 17,500 (7.7%)
  • Redbridge - 15,000 (6.6%)
  • Ealing - 11,500 (3.9%)
  • Brent - 11,000 (4.3%)
  • Hounslow - 9,500 (4.4%)
  • Croydon - 7,500 (2.6%)
  • Wandsworth - 5,500 (1.9%)
  • Harrow - 4,500 (2.5%)
  • Hillingdon - 4,000 (1.8%)
  • Barnet - 4,000 (1.6%)
  • Barking & Dagenham - 3,000 (2.2%)
• Birmingham - 105,000 (10.4%)
• Bradford - 70,000 (23.8%)
• Huddersfield/Kirklees - 27,000 (6.8%)
• Manchester - 23,500 (5.2%)
• Glasgow - 22,000
• Luton - 17,500 (9.4%)
• Rochdale - 16,000 (16.7%)
• Sheffield - 16,000 (3.0%)
• Leeds - 15,500 (3.5%)
• Slough - 15,000 (12.0%)
• Oldham - 14,000 (13.5%)
• Blackburn - 12,500 (11.9%)
• Nelson/Pendle - 12,000 (13.1%)
• High Wycombe - 10,000 (8.5%)
• Walsall - 10,000 (5.6%)
• Halifax/Calderdale - 10,000 (5.0%)
• Nottingham - 10,000
• Derby - 9,000
• Sandwell - 8,500 (3.0%)
• Peterborough - 7,500 (4.6%)
• Middlesbrough & Stockton-on-Tees - 7,500
• Bolton - 7,000 (5.0%)
• Stoke-on-Trent - 7,000 (3.0%)
• Dudley - 6,500 (3.3%)
• Coventry - 6,500 (2.1%)
• Bury - 6,000 (9.9%)
• Accrington/Hyndburn - 6,000 (7.3%)
• Edinburgh - 6,000
• Rotherham - 5,000 (4.3%)
• Leicester - 5,000
• Newcastle Upon Tyne - 5,000
• Bristol - 4,500
• Burton-on-Trent - 4,000 (6.6%)
• Watford - 4,000 (5.0%)
• Wakefield - 3,500 (4.4%)
• Crawley - 3,000 (3.0%)
• Stockport - 3,000 (2.2%)
• Trafford - 3,000 (1.4%)
• Wolverhampton - 3,000 (1.3%)
• Cardiff - 3,000

Polish communities

See also: Polish British, data below is for fully blooded Polish people (More than likely mostly Polish born).

• London - 120,000^[19]
  • Hammersmith
  • Ealing
  • Enfield
  • Haringey
• Leicester - 30,000^[20]
• Southampton - 20,000^[21]
• Peterborough - 10,000^[22]
• Slough - 10,000^[23]
• Reading - 8,000^[24]
• Swindon - 7,000^[25]
• Blackpool - 5,000^[26]
• Carlisle - 1,600^[27]
• Bradford
• Manchester
• Sheffield
• Leeds
• Birmingham
• Bolton
• Bury
• Chorley
• Crewe
• Nottingham
• Wrexham
• Rugby
• Banbury
• Luton
• Melton Mowbray
• Bristol

Portuguese communities

See also: Portuguese British, all data below is for Portuguese people in the UK regardless of birthplace.

• London - 20,000 Portuguese born only^[28], 70,000+ ethnically Portuguese (1% of city's population)
  • Vauxhall - Unknown, but single largest Portuguese community in the UK
  • Stockwell (Little Portugal) in Lambeth - 27,000 (10%)
  • Regent's Park
  • City of London
  • Harlesden
  • Camden Town
• Thetford - 6,000 (30%)^[29]
• West Midlands conurbation - 1,000 Portuguese born only^[30]

See also

• Demographics of the United Kingdom
• ethnic groups of the United Kingdom
• Ethnic enclave
• Lists of U.S. cities with large ethnic populations

References