Demographics of Leeds explained

Place:Leeds
Caption:Population pyramid of Leeds
Size Of Population:751,485 (2011)
Density:1,388 people per square km.

Leeds, England is the third most populous city in the United Kingdom.

Population

Leeds's total population, according to the 2011 UK census, was 751,485. The population density was 1,388 people per square km.

Ethnicity

The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 censuses in Leeds.

A Home Office report officially estimated that the 'coloured' population of Leeds in 1958 was likely around 3,000 to 5,000, the majority of these being Afro-Caribbean (2,000).[1]

Ethnic Group1971 estimations[2] 1981 estimations[3] 1991[4] 2001[5] 2011[6] 2021[7]
Number%Number%Number%Number%Number%Number%
White

Total

772,06297.9%660,75496%640,99794.16%657,08291.85%639,48785.10%641,80179%
White: British637,872 89.16% 609,714 81.13%595,73773.4%
White: Irish9,1631.34%8,578 1.20% 7,031 0.94%6,8920.8%
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller[8] 687 0.09%8780.1%
White: Roma1,6100.2%
White: Other10,632 1.49% 22,055 2.93%36,6844.5%
Asian or Asian British

Total

24,6023.61%35,7375.00%58,2437.75%78,5039.7%
Asian or Asian British: Indian9,90012,303 1.72% 16,130 2.15%21,0872.6%
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani9,32915,064 2.11% 22,492 2.99%31,4053.9%
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi1,7592,537 0.35% 4,432 0.59%5,8760.7%
Asian or Asian British: Chinese[9] 2,0663,447 0.48% 5,933 0.79%8,1171.0%
Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 1,5482,386 0.33% 9,256 1.23%12,0181.5%
Black or Black British

Total

10,8151.58%10,3181.44%25,8933.45%45,3765.6%
Black or Black British: African1,3432,435 0.34% 14,894 1.98%32,2114.0%
Black or Black British: Caribbean6,5546,718 0.94% 6,728 0.90%7,8891.0%
Black or Black British: Other Black2,9181,165 0.16% 4,271 0.57%5,2760.6%
Mixed

Total

9,7371.36%19,6322.61%27,3883.3%
Mixed: White and Black Caribbean 4,603 0.64% 8,813 1.17%10,0281.2%
Mixed: White and Black African 885 0.12% 2,493 0.33%4,2940.5%
Mixed: White and Asian 2,516 0.35% 4,906 0.65%7,4100.9%
Mixed: Other Mixed 1,733 0.24% 3,420 0.46%5,6560.7%
Other: Total4,3080.63%2,5280.35%8,2301.10%18,8852.3%
Other: Arab[10] 3,791 0.50%5,9800.7%
Other: Any other ethnic group 4,3080.63%2,528 0.35% 4,439 0.59%12,9051.6%
Non-White: Total16,9382.1%27,8074%39,7255.8%58,3208.1%111,99814.9%170,15221%
Total789,000100%688,561100%680,722100%715,402100%751,485100%811,953100%

Notes for table above

  1. Book: J. A.G. Griffith, Judith Henderson . Coloured Immigrants in Britain . 1960 . Oxford University Press . Internet Archive . 15.
  2. Jones . P. N. . 1978 . The Distribution and Diffusion of the Coloured Population in England and Wales, 1961-71 . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers . 3 . 4 . 515–532 . 10.2307/622127 . 622127 . 12157820 . 1978TrIBG...3..515J . 0020-2754.
  3. 1985 . Ethnic minorities in Britain: statistical information on the pattern of settlement . Commission for Racial Equality . English . Table 2.2. Equality. Commission for Racial.
  4. Data is taken from United Kingdom Casweb Data services of the United Kingdom 1991 Census on Ethnic Data for England, Scotland and Wales (Table 6)
  5. Web site: Office of National Statistics; 2001 Census Key Statistics . 2021-09-07 . webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  6. Web site: 2011 Census: Ethnic Group, local authorities in England and Wales . 2021-12-15 . webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  7. Web site: Ethnic group - Office for National Statistics . 2022-11-29 . www.ons.gov.uk.
  8. New category created for the 2011 census
  9. In 2001, listed under the 'Chinese or other ethnic group' heading.
  10. New category created for the 2011 census

Languages

The most common main languages spoken in Leeds according to the 2011 census are shown below.[11]

Rank Language Usual residents aged 3+ Proportion
1 670,650 92.90%
2 6,717 0.93%
3 4,989 0.69%
4 4,537 0.63%
5 3,393 0.47%
6 1,955 0.27%
7 1,772 0.25%
8 1,724 0.24%
9 1,623 0.22%
10 1,260 0.17%
11 904 0.13%
12 851 0.12%
13 842 0.12%
14 793 0.11%
15 760 0.11%
16 737 0.10%
17 726 0.10%
18 707 0.10%
19 705 0.10%
20 704 0.10%
Other 15,522 2.15%

Religion

The following table shows the religion of respondents in recent censuses in Leeds.

Religion2001[12] 2011[13] 2021[14]
Number%Number%Number%
492,656 68.86% 419,790 55.86% 343,311 42.28%
21,394 2.99% 40,772 5.43% 63,054 7.77%
7,586 1.06% 8,914 1.19% 10,047 1.24%
4,183 0.58% 7,048 0.94% 9,217 1.14%
8,267 1.16% 6,847 0.91% 6,267 0.77%
1,587 0.22% 2,772 0.37% 2,874 0.35%
Other religion 1,530 0.21% 2,396 0.32% 3,637 0.45%
No religion120,139 16.79% 212,229 28.24% 326,231 40.18%
Religion not stated 58,060 8.12% 50,717 6.75% 47,315 5.83%
Total 715,402 100.00% 751,485 100.00% 811,953 100.00%

See also