Born outside the UK

Where it covers

• England178,605 of 178,605 output areas have a figure
• Wales10,275 of 10,275 output areas have a figure
• Scotland46,363 of 46,363 output areas have a figure

How it is made

• Nation2021 only
• Region2021 only
• Council2021 only
• Constituency2021 only
• Ward2021 only
• Middle area2021 only
• Neighbourhood2021 only
• Output area2021 only

Before you use it

• Country of birth is not the same as nationality, citizenship or ethnic group. People born abroad to British parents are counted as born outside the UK.
• Percentages worked out by Open Index from the published counts.
• England, Wales and Northern Ireland held their census on 21 March 2021. Scotland's was a year later, on 20 March 2022, so its figures describe a day a year on.
• 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.
• Scotland's census publishes output areas and Data Zones in bulk, so Open Index adds up Data Zones for Intermediate Zones, councils and Scotland.
• Northern Ireland has no 2021 output areas. Its smallest census areas are Data Zones, so the map holds at that level there.

Colours on the map

How Open Index describes it

Page text on Open Index comes from this layer’s sentence rules, filled in with published figures. For Hackney:

39.7% of residents in Hackney were born outside the UK.

In London the figure is 40.6%.

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