Demographics of Sheffield
Demographics of Sheffield | |
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Population | 584,853 (2019) |
The latest (2022) population estimate for the City of Sheffield is 566,242 residents.[1] This represents an increase of about 17,000 people since the last census in 2011.
In the 21st century the city has undergone a population growth above that of the national average, and is projected to increase to over 600,000 by 2020.[2] This can largely be attributed to immigration and relatively high birth rates.[3]
Population
People from Sheffield (or 'Sheffielders') are colloquially known to residents of the surrounding towns of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Chesterfield as "dee-dars", which derives from the traditional pronunciation of the "th" in the dialectal words "thee" and "thou", still used, especially by older people, in South Yorkshire.
As with many British cities, the major period of growth in Sheffield's population occurred during the
Ethnicity
The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 censuses in Sheffield.
Ethnic Group | 1971 estimations[8] | 1981 estimations[9] | 1991[10] | 2001[11] | 2011[12] | 2021[13] | ||||||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
White: Total | 509,449 | 98% | 508,795 | 96.8% | 475,977 | 94.96% | 468,217 | 91.23% | 462,544 | 83.69% | 440,216 | 79.1% |
White: British | – | – | – | – | – | – | 457,728 | 89.19% | 446,837 | 80.85% | 414,698 | 74.5% |
White: Irish | – | – | – | – | 3,437 | – | 3,337 | 0.65% | 2,891 | 0.52% | 2,750 | 0.5% |
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller[note 1]
|
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 358 | 0.06% | 341 | 0.1% |
White: Roma | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2,456 | 0.4% |
White: Other | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7,152 | 1.39% | 12,458 | 2.25% | 19,971 | 3.6% |
Asian or Asian British : Total
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– | – | – | – | 13,655 | 2.72% | 25,583 | 4.98% | 44,385 | 8.03% | 53,560 | 9.6% |
Asian or Asian British: Indian | – | – | – | – | 1,415 | – | 3,030 | 0.59% | 5,868 | 1.06% | 6,798 | 1.2% |
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani | – | – | – | – | 8,880 | 1.77% | 15,844 | 3.09% | 21,990 | 3.98% | 27,671 | 5.0% |
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi | – | – | – | – | 1,082 | – | 1,910 | 0.37% | 3,326 | 0.60% | 4,258 | 0.8% |
Asian or Asian British: Chinese[note 2] | – | – | – | – | 1,330 | – | 2,201 | 0.43% | 7,398 | 1.34% | 7,393 | 1.3% |
Asian or Asian British: Other Asian | – | – | – | – | 948 | – | 2,598 | 0.51% | 5,803 | 1.05% | 7,440 | 1.3% |
Black or Black British: Total | – | – | – | – | 7,972 | 1.59% | 9,142 | 1.78% | 20,082 | 3.63% | 25,512 | 4.6% |
Black or Black British: African | – | – | – | – | 1,092 | – | 3,294 | 0.64% | 11,543 | 2.09% | 18,237 | 3.3% |
Black or Black British: Caribbean | – | – | – | – | 5,007 | 0.99% | 5,171 | 1.01% | 5,506 | 1.00% | 4,647 | 0.8% |
Black or Black British: Other Black | – | – | – | – | 1,873 | – | 677 | 0.13% | 3,033 | 0.55% | 2,628 | 0.5% |
Mixed: Total | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8,228 | 1.60% | 13,289 | 2.40% | 19,704 | 3.5% |
Mixed: White and Black Caribbean | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3,704 | 0.72% | 5,450 | 0.99% | 7,524 | 1.4% |
Mixed: White and Black African | – | – | – | – | – | – | 711 | 0.14% | 1,296 | 0.23% | 2,431 | 0.4% |
Mixed: White and Asian | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2,085 | 0.41% | 3,490 | 0.63% | 5,214 | 0.9% |
Mixed: Other Mixed | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1,728 | 0.34% | 3,053 | 0.55% | 4,535 | 0.8% |
Other: Total | – | – | – | – | 3,598 | - | 2,064 | 0.40% | 12,398 | 2.24% | 17,531 | 3.1% |
Other: Arab[note 3] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8,432 | 1.53% | 8,956 | 1.6% |
Other: Any other ethnic group | – | – | – | – | 3,598 | – | 2,064 | 0.40% | 3,966 | 0.72% | 8,575 | 1.5% |
Non-White: Total | 10,551 | 2% | 16,839 | 3.2% | 25,225 | 5% | 45,017 | 8.8% | 90,154 | 16.3% | 116,307 | 20.9% |
Total | 520,000 | 100% | 525,634 | 100% | 501,202 | 100% | 513,234 | 100% | 552,698 | 100% | 556,523 | 100% |
Notes for table above
By far the largest
South Asians
The
Somalis and Ethiopians
The Sheffield Somali community is the second largest and one of the oldest in the
Black Caribbeans
The
Black Africans
Black Africans are one of the newest and fastest growing ethnic groups in the city, with the majority being immigrants from war-torn or politically unstable countries. Most Black Africans tend to use Afro-Caribbean stores and community centres instead of starting up their own centres and stores. The majority of Black Africans live in
. The number of Black Africans living in Sheffield in 2006 was 8,300.East Europeans
There has been a large East European Community in Sheffield since the 1940s, when many Polish citizens settled in the city instead of returning to their homeland. A Polish Consulate was opened in Sheffield in 1997 in honour of this. The Sheffield East European community has grown substantially since 2004 when several East European countries joined the E.U with the main settlers being from Poland, Latvia and Slovakia. In July 2006 the Home Office gave Sheffield City Council extra funds to look after and house its large new immigrant East European communities. An interesting fact is that the Polish community in Sheffield despite the fact of its small size has own independent internet newspaper Sheffield24.pl which is active non-stop from 2011.
Chinese
The
Spanish
Sheffield has one of the largest Spanish-descended populations in the country, with over 3,000
Other Groups
Other ethnic groups of Sheffield include
Sheffield is one of the UK's major cities that is part of the
Ethnicity of school pupils[23]
Ethnic group | School year | |
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2021/2022 | ||
Number | % | |
White: Total | 55,144 | 65.9 |
White: British | 50,144 | 59.8 |
White: Irish | 131 | 0.2 |
White: Traveller of Irish heritage | 55 | 0.1 |
White: Gypsy/Roma | 1,739 | 2.1 |
White: Other | 3,075 | 3.7 |
Asian / Asian British : Total
|
11,091 | 13.2 |
Asian / Asian British: Indian | 875 | 1.0 |
Asian / Asian British: Pakistani | 6,563 | 7.8 |
Asian / Asian British: Bangladeshi | 1,016 | 1.2 |
Asian / Asian British: Chinese | 629 | 0.8 |
Asian / Asian British: Other Asians | 2,008 | 2.4 |
Black / Black British: Total | 5,817 | 7 |
Black: Caribbean | 474 | 0.6 |
Black: African | 4,573 | 5.5 |
Black: Other Blacks | 770 | 0.9 |
Mixed / British Mixed | 7,097 | 8.5 |
Other: Total | 3,246 | 3.9 |
Unclassified | 1,433 | 1.7 |
Total: | 83,828 | 100.0 |
Languages
The most common main languages spoken in Sheffield according to the 2011 census are shown below.[24]
Rank | Language | Usual residents aged 3+ | Proportion |
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1 | English | 490,407 | 92.15% |
2 | Arabic |
5,043 | 0.95% |
3 | Urdu |
4,222 | 0.79% |
4 | Punjabi | 2,743 | 0.52% |
5 | Polish | 2,611 | 0.49% |
6 | Somali | 2,074 | 0.39% |
7 | Bengali | 1,515 | 0.28% |
8 | Slovak | 1,244 | 0.23% |
9 | Persian | 1,017 | 0.19% |
10 | Kurdish | 960 | 0.18% |
11 | French | 922 | 0.17% |
12 | Spanish | 808 | 0.15% |
13 | Pashto |
807 | 0.15% |
14 | Mandarin Chinese | 609 | 0.11% |
15 | Turkish | 566 | 0.11% |
16 | Russian | 511 | 0.10% |
17 | Shona | 508 | 0.10% |
18 | Cantonese Chinese | 503 | 0.09% |
19 | Portuguese | 499 | 0.09% |
20 | Greek | 497 | 0.09% |
Other | 14,098 | 2.65% |
Religion
The following table shows the religion of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 censuses in Sheffield.
Religion | 2001[25] | 2011[26] | ||
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Number | % | Number | % | |
Christian | 351,841 | 68.55% | 290,299 | 52.52% |
Buddhist | 1,096 | 0.21% | 2,282 | 0.41% |
Hindu | 1,675 | 0.33% | 3,566 | 0.65% |
Jewish | 763 | 0.15% | 747 | 0.14% |
Muslim | 23,819 | 4.64% | 42,801 | 7.74% |
Sikh | 773 | 0.15% | 942 | 0.17% |
Other religion | 1,215 | 0.24% | 1,961 | 0.35% |
No religion | 91,894 | 17.90% | 172,516 | 31.21% |
Religion not stated | 40,158 | 7.82% | 37,584 | 6.80% |
Total | 513,234 | 100.00% | 552,698 | 100.00% |
See also
- List of famous residents of Sheffield
- Demographics of the United Kingdom
- Demographics of England
- Demographics of London
- Demographics of Birmingham
- Demographics of Greater Manchester
- List of English cities by population
- List of English districts by population
- List of English districts and their ethnic composition
- List of English districts by area
- List of English districts by population density
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