# Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh

The share of residents who identified with the Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh ethnic group (Bangladeshi, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani or any other Asian background).

## Facts

- Published by: Office for National Statistics
- Level of detail: Output area
- Updates: Every 10 years
- History: Since 2021
- Licence: Open Government Licence 3.0
- Levels: Nation, Region, Council, Constituency, Postcode area, Postcode district, Town, Ward, Middle area, Neighbourhood, Output area

## Periods

| Level | First | Latest | Periods |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nation | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Region | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Council | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Constituency | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Postcode area | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Postcode district | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Town | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Ward | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Middle area | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Neighbourhood | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |
| Output area | 2021 | 2021 | 1 |

## Coverage

| Nation | Areas | With a figure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| England | 178605 | 178605 |
| Wales | 10275 | 10275 |
| Scotland | 46363 | 0 |

Scotland's census asks about ethnic group with different categories (it counts African and Caribbean or Black separately, for example), so its figures are not shown with England and Wales.

Northern Ireland's census asks about ethnic group with different categories, so its figures are not shown with England and Wales.

## Gaps

- Scotland's census asks about ethnic group with different categories (it counts African and Caribbean or Black separately, for example), so its figures are not shown with England and Wales: 1000 (Output area in Dyce - 07, Output area in Dyce - 07, Output area in Denmore - 05, Output area in Dyce - 07, Output area in Oldmachar West - 01, Output area in Dyce - 07)

## Caveats

- People chose the ethnic group they identify with, from the categories on the England and Wales census form.
- Percentages worked out by Open Index from the published counts.
- The census in England and Wales was held on 21 March 2021.
- Each census office makes small random changes to counts to protect privacy, so the smallest areas can be a few people out, and small areas do not add up exactly to larger ones.
- Wards and constituencies are worked out by Open Index by adding up the census areas that best fit them, so they are close but not exact. Councils whose boundaries changed after the census are added up from output areas.

## Example: Hackney

10.4% of residents in Hackney identified with the Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh ethnic group.
In London the figure is 20.7%.

https://openindex.co.uk/hackney

## Sources

### Census 2021, England and Wales

- Publisher: Office for National Statistics
- Licence: [Open Government Licence 3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Edition: Census 2021 topic summaries (Nomis bulk)
- Published: 19 January 2023
- Fetched: 15 October 2026
- Updates: one-off
- Credit: Source: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021, licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
- Publisher's page: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_bulk

## Use it

- [The map](https://openindex.co.uk/map/ethnic-group-asian)
- [Ranking](https://openindex.co.uk/rankings/ethnic-group-asian/uk)
- Download (Output area): https://data.openindex.co.uk/s/2026.10.8/downloads/layers/ethnic-group-asian/output_area.csv
- API: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/layers/ethnic-group-asian

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/sources/ethnic-group-asian.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

- Source: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021, licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/sources/ethnic-group-asian