Demography of Greater Manchester

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The demography of Greater Manchester is charactered by a number of trends recorded amongst its multicultural agglomoration of 2.55 million people, as part of census returns and other systems of measurement used in the English metropolitan county.

Greater Manchester is the third most populous, and seventh most densly populated county in England.

Compared against the demography of the United Kingdom, Greater Manchester has significant ethnic minority population comprising 11.09% of the total population.^[1]

[edit] Key statistics

[edit] Ethnicity

2005 estimates.^[2]

• White - 2,261,200 (88.91%)
  • White British - 2,175,100 (85.52%)
  • White Irish - 38,800 (1.53%)
  • White Other - 47,200 (1.86%)
• Mixed Race - 39,700 (1.56%)
  • White and Black Caribbean - 14,400 (0.57%)
  • White and Black African - 6,000 (0.24%)
  • White and South Asian - 10,900 (0.43%)
  • Mixed Other - 8,100 (0.32%)
• South Asian - 165,700 (6.52%)
  • Indian - 44,500 (1.75%)
  • Pakistani - 84,300 (3.31%)
  • Bangladeshi - 23,600 (0.93%)
  • South Asian Other - 13,300 (0.52%)
• Black - 43,600 (1.71%)
  • Black Caribbean - 17,400 (0.68%)
  • Black African - 22,300 (0.88%)
  • Black Other - 3,800 (0.15%)
• East Asian and Other - 33,300 (1.31%)
  • Chinese - 19,800 (0.78%)
  • Other - 13,600 (0.53%)

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Compared against the demography of England, Greater Manchester's demographics are broadly inline with national averages on many topics. In terms of ethnicity however, its Asian and British Asian population is considerably above the regional and national averages, as is the portion of residents who identify as Muslim.

[edit] Population change

The population of Greater Manchester has increased from around 32.8 thousand in 1801, to 2.5 million in 2001. It was at its peak in 1971, however, at 2.7 million.

Below is a table outlining population totals of the area for every ten years since 1801. Pre-1974 statistics were gathered from local government areas that now comprise Greater Manchester.

[edit] Boroughs

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Manchester has always been vastly more populous than any other district of Greater Manchester.

Of Greater Manchester's ten metropolitan boroughs, the City of Manchester is the most populous with a population of 441,200, whilst the Metropolitan Borough of Bury is the least populous with 183,500.

In terms of districts by ethnic diversity, the City of Manchester is ranked the highest in Greater Manchester (34th in England), followed by the metropolitan boroughs of Oldham (45th in England), Rochdale (53rd in England), and Trafford (68th in England). Wigan is the least ethnically diverse borough in the county, and 274th in England.

The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is the borough with the highest proportion of people under fifteen years of age.^[7] Almost 12% of people in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham are of South Asian heritage, the highest proportion of a borough of Greater Manchester,^[7] and, after Blackburn with Darwen, the second largest in the United Kingdom.

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