OL8

Census 2021 — Full Demographic Breakdown

The Census 2021 data below shows the full population breakdown for OL8 district. Figures are sourced from the Office for National Statistics and cover ethnicity, age, religion, education, occupation, housing tenure, and more.

groups45,618residents
verified Published by PostcodeInfo.uk·ONS Census 2021·Data: 2021 (published March 2023) — updated at each Census cycle
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Ethnicity

Census 2021 data — sorted by count

District
9/10
City
-/10
OL8 Oldham UK
White: English
42.6%65.2%74.4%
Pakistani
30.6%13.5%2.7%
Bangladeshi
8.6%9.0%1.1%
African
3.6%2.5%2.5%
White: Other White
3.1%2.1%6.2%
Any other ethnic group
2.4%1.1%1.6%
Other Asian
2.1%1.0%1.6%
Indian
1.5%0.7%3.1%
White and Asian
1.0%0.8%0.8%
White and Black Caribbean
0.8%1.0%0.9%
White: Roma
0.6%0.2%0.2%
White and Black African
0.5%0.4%0.4%
Other Mixed
0.4%0.4%0.8%
Other Black
0.4%0.5%0.5%
Chinese
0.4%0.3%0.7%
Caribbean
0.4%0.4%1.0%
White: Irish
0.4%0.5%0.9%
Arab
0.4%0.2%0.6%
White: Gypsy
0.2%0.1%0.1%

Main Ethnicity

White: English

42.6% of the population (UK avg: 74.4%)

arrow_upward Higher than Oldham average

Pakistani+17.1pp

arrow_downward Lower than Oldham average

White: English-22.6pp
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