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What is the population of each ethnic group in each local authority in years between censuses?

Partial Official data answers part of the question: some categories, some years, some geographies or one stage of a process.

Why

ONS produced experimental "population estimates by ethnic group" for English local authorities for 2006 to 2011 and then stopped; its December 2021 review says the 2019 survey-based estimates are available at national and regional level only and that local authority estimates were not possible on sample-size grounds. Research outputs using administrative data (2015) and pooled survey data (2016) exist but are stated not to be official statistics.

What is known

What is not known

  • A current annual local authority series by ethnic group

Who holds the data

  • ONS
  • Department for Education and NHS England (administrative ethnicity used as inputs)

Would a Freedom of Information request help?

Unlikely. ONS holds no local series beyond the published research outputs.

Privacy and disclosure restrictions

Research outputs show non-availability of up to 44% for some groups at local authority level.

Official sources checked

Last reviewed 2026-09-02. Availability changes; if a publication now answers this question, challenge the classification below.

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