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Demographics of Slough

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{{Infobox place demographics|place=Slough|caption=Population pyramid of Slough|image_size=350|size_of_population=149,400 (2016 estimate)|image=File:Slough population pyramid.svg}}File:Population Density Slough 2011 census.png

This article is intended to give an overview of the demography of Slough. In 2016, Slough had a population of 149,000 people.

File:Slough's industry sectors over time.svg

Population

The modern town of Slough grew from the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England. The populations given below are for the successive institutional areas of the principal local government level that could be recognised as Slough, now in Berkshire.

class = "wikitable"

! Year

! Population

! Notes

align="center" | 1801align="center" | 1,018p 153, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973Parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey
align="center" | 1811align="center" | 1,083
align="center" | 1821align="center" | 1,268
align="center" | 1831align="center" | 1,502
align="center" | 1841align="center" | 2,296
align="center" | 1851align="center" | 3,573
align="center" | 1861align="center" | 4,688
align="center" | 1871align="center" | 5,940
align="center" | 1881align="center" | 7,030
align="center" | 1891align="center" | 7,700
align="center" | 1901align="center" | 11,453Slough Urban District from 1894; area enlarged in 1900p 151, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973
align="center" | 1911align="center" | 14,982
align="center" | 1921align="center" | 16,392
align="center" | 1931align="center" | 33,612area enlarged in 1930/1931
align="center" | 1939align="center" | 50,620estimate (1941 census not taken due to World War II):Municipal Borough from 1938
align="center" | 1951align="center" | 66,471
align="center" | 1961align="center" | 80,781
align="center" | 1971align="center" | 87,075
align="center" | 1981align="center" | 96,512[https://www.eustatistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/xsdataset.asp?More=Y Office for National Statistics, downloaded 31 December 2006]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}Borough of Slough in Berkshire and area enlarged from 1974
align="center" | 1991align="center" | 101,066
align="center" | 2001align="center" | 119,070[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10032751&c_id=10001043&add=N A Vision of Britain (Accessed 31 December 2006)]Area enlarged in 1995: Unitary Authority from 1998
align="center" | 2011align="center" | 140,200[http://www.slough.gov.uk/council/key-statistics-and-data/census.aspx (Accessed 29 November 2013)]Up 16.3% on the 2001 census, and 6.9% higher than the previous mid-2010 population estimate
align="center" | 2016align="center" | 149,400ONS - based on 2012 population trends

Ethnicity

File:Ethnic demographics of Slough over time from 1971 to 2021.gif

File:Ethnic makeup of Slough by single year ages in 2021.svg

File:Population pyramid of Slough by ethnicity in 2021.svg

The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 1991, 2001 and 2011 censuses in Slough. Slough is a majority-minority town, with no ethnic group or broad multi-ethnic group being the majority, having been this way since the late 2000s. The White British make up the largest group at 34.5% of the population, having declined from a majority status of 58.3% in 2001, this decline coincides with the overall decline of White residents in the town from nearly two thirds in 1991 (72.3%) to less the majority (45.7%) in 2011. In conjunction, Asian British people have risen from nearly a quarter of the town's population in 1991 (23.9%) to nearly 40% in 2011, the largest of which is British Pakistanis who surpassed British Indians in 2011 as the largest Asian group. Black British residents have also increased, with the majority of growth coming from Black Africans who have increased from 0.4% in 1991 to 5.4% in 2011, of which surpassed the Black Caribbean group, who was 2.2% of the population, in 2011 as well.

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
rowspan="2"|Ethnic Group

! colspan="2" |1971 estimations{{Citation |last=Masom |first=Grant |title=Where We Live Now: A Twentieth-Century Industrial Town |date=2020 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48095-0_2 |work=Local Churches in New Urban Britain, 1890-1975: “The Greatest Challenge”? |pages=37–71 |editor-last=Masom |editor-first=Grant |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-48095-0_2 |isbn=978-3-030-48095-0 |s2cid=226649228 |access-date=2023-01-10|url-access=subscription }}

! colspan="2" |1981 estimations{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/ethnicityin1991c0000unse |title=Ethnicity in the 1991 census: Vol 3 - Social geography and ethnicity in Britain, geographical spread, spatial concentration and internal migration |date=1996 |publisher=London : HMSO |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-11-691655-6}}

! colspan="2" |1991 census{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/ethnicityin1991c0000unse |title=Ethnicity in the 1991 census: Vol 3 - Social geography and ethnicity in Britain, geographical spread, spatial concentration and internal migration |date=1996 |publisher=London : HMSO |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-11-691655-6}}Data is taken from United Kingdom [http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/index.htm Casweb Data services] of the United Kingdom [http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/step1.cfm 1991 Census on Ethnic Data for England, Scotland and Wales] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405213012/http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/step1.cfm |date=5 April 2022 }} (Table 6)

!colspan="2"|2001 census{{cite web |title=Office of National Statistics; 2001 Census Key Statistics |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/local-authorities-ks06--ethnic-group.xls |access-date=2021-09-07 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}

!colspan="2"|2011 census{{Cite web |title=2011 Census: Ethnic Group, local authorities in England and Wales |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/rft-table-ks201ew.xls |access-date=2021-12-15 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}

! colspan="2" |2021 census{{Cite web |title=Ethnic group - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS021/editions/2021/versions/1/filter-outputs/d2f0a39a-75b6-4995-b4bd-a5b68ff79027#get-data |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}

Number

!%

!Number

!%

!Number

!%

!Number

!%

!Number

!%

!Number

!%

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

White: Total

!78,367

!90%

!71,908

!77.2%

!73,749

!72%

!75,843

!63.70%

!64,053

!45.69%

!57,134

!35.9%

style="text-align:left" | White: British

| –

| –

|–

|–

| –

| –

69,44158.32%48,40134.52%

|38,101

|24.0%

style="text-align:left" | White: Irish

| –

| –

|–

|–

|3,241

|3.2%

2,4892.09%1,6071.15%

|1143

|0.7%

style="text-align:left" | White: Gypsy or Irish TravellerNew category created for the 2011 census

| –

| –

|–

|–

| –

| –

––2200.16%

|237

|0.1%

White: Roma

| –

| –

|–

|–

| –

| –

| –

| –

| –

| –

|357

|0.2%

style="text-align:left" | White: Other

| –

| –

|–

|–

| –

| –

3,9133.29%13,8259.86%

|17,296

|10.9%

Asian or Asian British: Total

!–

!–

!17,186

!18.4%

!23,661

!23.1%

!33,621

!28.24%

!55,697

!39.73%

!74,093

!46.9%

style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: Indian

| –

| –

|9900

|

|12941

|

16,71914.04%21,92215.64%

|30,209

|19.1%

style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: Pakistani

| –

| –

|6399

|

|9428

|

14,36012.06%24,86917.74%

|34,317

|21.7%

style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi

| –

| –

|39

|

|101

|

1710.14%5490.39%

|910

|0.6%

style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: ChineseIn 2001, listed under the 'Chinese or other ethnic group' heading.

| –

| –

|205

|

|266

|

3490.29%7970.57%

|594

|0.4%

style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: Other Asian

| –

| –

|643

|

|925

|

2,0221.70%7,5605.39%

|8,063

|5.1%

Black or Black British: Total

!–

!–

!3,253

!

!3,891

!

!6,026

!5.06%

!12,115

!8.64%

!11,992

!7.5%

style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: Caribbean

| –

| –

|2361

|

|2788

|

3,4702.91%3,0962.21%

|2,771

|1.7%

style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: African

| –

| –

|376

|

|429

|

2,2751.91%7,5485.38%

|7,815

|4.9%

style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: Other Black

| –

| –

|516

|

|674

|

2810.24%1,4711.05%

|1,406

|0.9%

Mixed: Total

!–

!–

!–

!–

!–

!–

!2,778

!2.33%

!4,758

!3.39%

!6,311

!4%

style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Black Caribbean

| –

| –

|–

|–

| –

| –

1,1160.94%1,6671.19%

|1,854

|1.2%

style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Black African

| –

| –

|–

|–

| –

| –

2240.19%6070.43%

|824

|0.5%

style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Asian

| –

| –

|–

|–

| –

| –

8450.71%1,4291.02%

|1,945

|1.2%

style="text-align:left" | Mixed: Other Mixed

| –

| –

|–

|–

| –

| –

5930.50%1,0550.75%

|1,688

|1.1%

Other: Total

!–

!–

!821

!

!1,099

!

!799

!0.67%

!3,582

!2.55%

!8,970

!5.7%

style="text-align:left" | Other: ArabNew category created for the 2011 census

| –

| –

|–

|–

| –

| –

––9280.66%

|1,826

|1.2%

style="text-align:left" | Other: Any other ethnic group

| –

| –

|–

|–

|–

|–

7990.67%2,6541.89%

|7,144

|4.5%

Ethnic minority

!8,708

!10%

!21,260

!22.8%

!28,651

!28%

!43,224

!36.3%

!76,152

!54.3%

!101,366

!64.1%

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Total

!87,075

!100%

!93,168

!100%

!102,400

!100%

!119,067

!100%

!140,205

!100%

!158,500

!100%

Notes for table above

{{Gallery

|title=Distribution of ethnic groups in Slough according to the 2011 census.

|width=225 | height=225

|align=center

|File:White Slough 2011 census.png|White

|File:British Slough 2011 census.png|White-British

|File:Irish Slough 2011 census.png|White-Irish

|File:White other Slough 2011 census.png|White-Other

|File:Asian Slough 2011 census.png|Asian

|File:Indian Slough 2011 census.png|Asian-Indian

|File:Pakistani Slough 2011 census.png|Asian-Pakistani

|File:Bangladeshi Slough 2011 census.png|Asian-Bangladeshi

|File:Chinese Slough 2011 census.png|Asian-Chinese

|File:Black Slough 2011 census.png|Black

|File:African Slough 2011 census.png|Black-African

|File:Caribbean Slough 2011 census.png|Black-Caribbean

|File:Arab Slough 2011 census.png|Other-Arab

}}

= Ethnicity of school pupils =

Since statistics on the ethnicity of school pupils have been collected, White students, the majority being the native White British, have been in the minority. As such Slough schools were in a majority-minority state in-till 2018 when Asian British pupils became the majority, of which had surpassed White students in the mid-2000s. In the Asian British multi-ethnic group, British Pakistanis are the largest at 25.8% and are the largest group of all groups in the town. Black British school pupils increased in proportional size between 2004 and 2012 peaking at 9.1%, but have declined since then to 7.2% in 2022. Mixed school pupils have also been in proportional increase and now make up a little over 1 in 10 in schools (11.3%) from 5.9% in 2004.

class="wikitable"

! rowspan="3" |Ethnic group

! colspan="12" |School year{{Cite web |title=School and pupil characteristics |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104055718/http://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics?page=1 |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Schools, pupils and their characteristics, Academic Year 2021/22 |url=https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk |language=en}}

colspan="2" |2004

! colspan="2" |2008

! colspan="2" |2012

! colspan="2" |2015/16

! colspan="2" |2019/20

! colspan="2" |2021/2022

Number

!%

!Number

!%

!Number

!%

!Number

!%

!Number

!%

!Number

!%

|

|

|

|

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|

|

|

|

|

|

|

White: Total

!7,670

!44.3%

!7,110

!37.9%

!6,820

!32.4%

!7,218

!29.5%

!8,422

!25.8%

!7,860

!23.3%

White: British

|6,940

|40%

|5,154

|27.5%

|4,581

|21.8%

|4,308

|17.3%

|4,453

|13.6%

|4,084

|12.1%

White: Irish

|200

|

|158

|

|148

|

|114

|0.5%

|110

|0.3%

|81

|0.2%

White: Traveller of Irish heritage

|10

|

|25

|

|29

|

|34

|0.0%

|25

|0.1%

|22

|0.1%

White: Gypsy/Roma

|70

|

|54

|

|110

|

|158

|0.6%

|244

|0.7%

|240

|0.7%

White: Other

|470

|

|1,719

|

|1,951

|

|2,762

|11.1%

|3,610

|11.1%

|3,433

|10.2%

Asian / Asian British: Total

!7,040

!40.6%

!8,360

!44.6%

!9,785

!46.5%

!12,108

!48.6%

!16,769

!51.4%

!17,725

!52.4%

Asian / Asian British: Indian

|2,830

|16.3%

|3,287

|17.5%

|3,758

|20.0%

|4,486

|18.0%

|6,565

|20.1%

|7,262

|21.5%

Asian / Asian British: Pakistani

|3,620

|20.9%

|4,164

|22.2%

|4,923

|23.4%

|6,191

|24.8%

|8,420

|25.8%

|8,687

|25.8%

Asian / Asian British: Bangladeshi

|60

|

|92

|

|116

|

|149

|0.6%

|261

|0.8%

|256

|0.8%

Asian / Asian British: Chinese

|60

|

|63

|

|60

|

|46

|0.2%

|49

|0.2%

|97

|0.1%

Asian / Asian British: Other Asians

|470

|

|754

|

|926

|

|1,236

|5.0%

|1,474

|4.5%

|1,423

|4.2%

Black / Black British: Total

!1,100

!6.4%

!1,580

!8.4%

!1,925

!9.1%

!2,150

!8.5%

!2,454

!7.5%

!2,417

!7.2%

Black: Caribbean

|340

|

|362

|

|357

|

|332

|1.3%

|343

|1.1%

|339

|1.0%

Black: African

|660

|3.8%

|1,133

|6.0%

|1,454

|6.9%

|1,658

|6.6%

|1,899

|5.8%

|1,847

|5.5%

Black: Other Blacks

|110

|

|91

|

|116

|

|160

|0.6%

|212

|0.6%

|231

|0.7%

Mixed / British Mixed

!1,030

!5.9%

!1,190

!6.3%

!1,690

!8%

!2,125

!8.5%

!3,188

!9.8%

!3,817

!11.3%

Other: Total

!290

!1.7%

!391

!2.1%

!655

!3.1%

!911

!3.7%

!1,261

!3.9%

!1,349

!4.0%

Unclassified

!190

!1.1%

!37

!-

!173

!0.8%

!270

!1.1%

!551

!1.7%

!590

!1.7%

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Total:

!17,320

!100%

!18,750

!100%

!21,050

!100%

!24,941

!100%

!32,665

!100%

!33,720

!100%

Country of birth

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|+Top Countries of Birth - 2011 and 2021{{cite web | url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/QS203EW/view/1946157286?rows=cell&cols=rural_urban | title=Data Viewer - Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics }}{{cite web | url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/filters/aa0765dc-7d47-4d84-85f6-bdc7d99b9227/dimensions | title=Custom dataset - Office for National Statistics }}

!Country of birth

!2011 number

!2021 number

{{ENG}}

|83,230

|87,350

{{IND}}

|11,544

|17,107

{{PAK}}

|11,244

|14,418

{{POL}}

|8,341

|8,912

{{ROM}}

|467

|3,551

{{KEN}}

|2,183

|1,940

{{SRI}}

|1,219

|1,385

{{SOM}}

|1,247

|1,336

{{ITA}}

|621

|1,125

{{PHI}}

|828

|1,064

File:Slough UK born population pyramid in 2021.svg|UK born

File:Slough foreign born population pyramid in 2021.svg|Foreign born: Total

File:UK born and foreign born in Slough in 2021.svg

Languages

Top 10 main languages spoken in Slough according to 2011 census and 2021 census are shown below.{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/qs204ew |title=Download:local authorities: county / unitary |publisher=NOMIS |accessdate=17 June 2015}}

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"

! rowspan="2" |Rank

! rowspan="2" |Language

!2011

!2021

Usual residents aged 3+

!Usual residents aged 3+

1style="text-align:left" | English96,508

|110,212

2style="text-align:left" | Punjabi8,247

|9,527

3style="text-align:left" | Polish8,249

|7,724

4style="text-align:left" | Urdu6,568

|6,497

5style="text-align:left" | Romanian401

|3,275

6style="text-align:left" | Tamil860

|1,224

7style="text-align:left" | Hindi825

|1,148

8style="text-align:left" | Telugu275

|1,066

9style="text-align:left" | Arabic703

|983

10style="text-align:left" | Somali938

|772

Religion

File:Religious makeup of Slough by single year age groups in 2021.svg

The following table shows the religion of respondents in the 2001, 2011 and 2021 censuses{{Cite web |title=Religion, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/religion/bulletins/religionenglandandwales/census2021 |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}} in Slough. With Slough having one of the highest British Asian communities in Britain, the British Muslim, British Hindus and Sikh communities are all overrepresented compared to the national average.

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
rowspan="2"|Religion

!colspan="2"|2001{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/components/stdListComponent.asp?menuopt=12&subcomp=100 |title=2001 census - theme tables |accessdate=17 June 2015}}

!colspan="2"|2011{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/qs208ew |title=Download:local authorities: county / unitary |publisher=NOMIS |accessdate=17 June 2015}}

! colspan="2" |2021{{Cite web |title=Home - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/ |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}

Number

!%

!Number

!%

!Number

!%

style="text-align:left" | Christian63,99353.75%57,72641.17%

|50,664

|31.96%

style="text-align:left" | Buddhist2940.25%7430.53%

|776

|0.5%

style="text-align:left" | Hindu5,3404.48%8,6436.16%

|12,343

|7.79%

style="text-align:left" | Jewish1390.12%870.06%

|85

|0.1%

style="text-align:left" | Muslim15,89713.35%32,65523.29%

|46,661

|29.44%

style="text-align:left" | Sikh10,8209.09%14,88910.62%

|17,985

|11.35%

style="text-align:left" | Any Other religion3580.30%4820.34%

|716

|0.5%

style="text-align:left" | No religion13,06110.97%17,02412.14%

|20,726

|13.08%

style="text-align:left" | Religion not stated9,1657.70%7,9565.67%

|8,544

|5.39%

style="text-align:left" | Total119,067100.00%140,205100.00%

|158,500

|100.00%

{{Gallery

|title=Distribution of religions in Slough according to the 2011 census.

|width=225 | height=225

|align=center

|File:Christianity Slough 2011 census.png|Christianity

|File:Islam Slough 2011 census.png|Islam

|File:Judaism Slough 2011 census.png|Judaism

|File:Hinduism Slough 2011 census.png|Hinduism

|File:Sikhism Slough 2011 census.png|Sikhism

|File:Buddhism Slough 2011 census.png|Buddhism

|File:Other Religion Slough 2011 census.png|Other religion

|File:Noreligion Slough 2011 census.png|No religion

}}

See also

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References

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