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This page was last updated on 05 November 2006

Ethnicity profiles: Yorkshire and The Humber

Doncaster

Doncaster ranks near the bottom third in the list of England's most diverse local authorities. Only one ethnic minority group - Asians - constitute more than 1% of its total population.

Diversity index score

0.07

The Office for National Statistics' diversity index is calculated as the probability that two people chosen at random from a given area would be from different ethnic groups, even if neither of them were white. For example, a score of .30 would mean that there would be a 30% probability.

More about the index (ONS website)

Little more than 3,000 and 1,000 Asian and Black people respectively live in the area, which has a population of more than 286,000 people.

Profile of the Doncaster local authority area, including data on population, health, housing and employment (Office for National Statistics website)

Doncaster

Population: 286,866

Ethnic group/sub-group		Population	Proportion compared to national average
White		280,239	97.6% 90.9%
	British	276,828	96.5% 86.9%
	Irish	1,491	0.51% 1.27%
	Other	1,920	0.66% 2.66%
Mixed		1,759	0.61% 1.30%
	White and Black Caribbean	827	0.28% 0.47%
	White and Black African	203	0.07% 0.15%
	White and Asian	444	0.15% 0.37%
	Other mixed	285	0.09% 0.30%
Asian		3,072	1.07% 4.57%
	Indian	1,247	0.43% 2.09%
	Pakistani	1,503	0.52% 1.43%
	Bangladeshi	60	0.02% 0.56%
	Other Asian	262	0.09% 0.48%
Black		1,049	0.36% 2.30%
	Caribbean	736	0.25% 1.14%
	African	229	0.07% 0.96%
	Other Black	84	0.02% 0.19%
Chinese		523	0.18% 0.44%
Other ethnic group		224	0.07% 0.43%

Source: Census 2001, Office for National Statistics

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