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Ethnicity profiles: London
City of Westminster
Includes: Bayswater, Belgravia, Covent Garden, Fitzrovia, Hyde Park, Knightsbridge (part), Lisson Grove, Little Venice, Maida Hill, Maida Vale, Mayfair, Marylebone, Paddington, Pimlico, Queen's Park, St. James's, St. John's Wood, Soho, West End of London, Westminster
Westminster forms the bulk of London's central area, and is home to nearly 200,000 people. It includes most of London's West End.
Less than half (49%) of Westminster's residents are of White British origin, but the borough still has a very large proportion overall of white people - nearly three-quarters of the population are from this group.
Westminster has over 38,000 residents from the Other White group, more than a fifth of its total population. Only Kensington and Chelsea, among all local authorities in England, has a higher proportion. There is a very high degree of diversity within this group; most of this group, which is mostly made up of European and American-born people. There are over 1,000 each of people born in the US, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, they Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey. Parts of the borough, including Soho, Paddington and Covent Garden, have the highest diversity within the Other White population of anywhere in England. There are over 100 languages spoken in Westminster alone.
There are comparatively fewer Asian and Black residents than in many London boroughs; here they make up just 9% (16,000 people) and 7% (13,000) of the population respectively. Just over half of all black residents are of African origin. Within the Asian group, there are about 5,000 each of Indians and Bangladeshis.
Compared to London as a whole, Westminster has high numbers of Chinese (2%) and Bangladeshi (2%) residents. In fact, it has a higher proportion of Chinese residents than any other borough, which is not surprising considering it incorporates the city's Chinatown. It also has nearly three times as many as London's average proportion of people from the Other ethnic group; nearly 7,500, or more then 4% of the borough's population.
- Profile of the City of Westminster, including data on population, health, housing and employment (Office for National Statistics website)
Westminster
Population: 181,286
| Ethnic group/sub-group | Population | Proportion compared to national average | |
| White | 132,715 | 73.2% 90.9% | |
| British | 87,938 | 48.5% 86.9% | |
| Irish | 6,574 | 3.62% 1.27% | |
| Other | 38,203 | 21.0% 2.66% | |
| Mixed | 7,480 | 4.12% 1.30% | |
| White and Black Caribbean | 1,382 | 0.76% 0.47% | |
| White and Black African | 1,204 | 0.66% 0.15% | |
| White and Asian | 2,436 | 1.34% 0.37% | |
| Other mixed | 2,458 | 1.35% 0.30% | |
| Asian | 16,107 | 8.88% 4.57% | |
| Indian | 5,665 | 3.12% 2.09% | |
| Pakistani | 1,828 | 1.00% 1.43% | |
| Bangladeshi | 5,000 | 2.75% 0.56% | |
| Other Asian | 3,614 | 1.99% 0.48% | |
| Black | 13,481 | 7.43% 2.30% | |
| Caribbean | 5,613 | 3.09% 1.14% | |
| African | 6,678 | 3.68% 0.96% | |
| Other Black | 1,190 | 0.65% 0.19% | |
| Chinese | 4,077 | 2.24% 0.44% | |
| Other ethnic group | 7,426 | 4.09% 0.43% | |
Source: Census 2001, Office for National Statistics
