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| Indians in the United Kingdom
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Estimated at around 1,600,000[1] |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Throughout the United Kingdom In particular London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester, Leeds, Glasgow, Preston, Sheffield, Liverpool, Nottingham, Southampton, Bristol, Newcastle upon Tyne, Slough, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Stoke on Trent, Coventry |
| Languages |
| English (British English, Indian English) · Hindi · Punjabi · Urdu · Gujarati and Various Other Languages of India |
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| Hinduism · Sikhism · Islam · Christianity · and many more |
| Related ethnic groups |
| Asian British · Indian Diaspora · Indian people · Anglo-Indians |
British Indians (also Indian British or Indian Britons) are citizens of the United Kingdom whose ancestral roots lie in the South Asian country of India. This includes people born in the UK, who are of Indian descent or Indian born people who have immigrated to the UK. Today, Indians number around one and a half million in the UK (not including those of mixed Indian and Other ancestry), making them the single largest ethnic minority population in the country. They make up the largest subgroup of British Asians, and are one of the largest Indian communities in the Indian diaspora, largely due to the Indian-British relations (including historical links such as India once being part of the British Empire and still being part of The Commonwealth of Nations). The Indian British community is the fifth largest in the Indian diaspora, behind the Indian communities in the UAE, USA, Malaysia and Burma. Also worthy of note is that the UK has the highest percentage of Indians per head of the population in the Western World.
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Indians have existed in the UK for generations and have long been the country's largest visible ethnic minority group, estimated at 1.6 million they can be found in all corners of the UK.
In the 2001 UK Census, Indians in the UK were most likely to have responded to code 41 - Indian or Indian British. Indian was one of only five sub categories in the UK census which represents a nation (along with Irish, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Chinese).
According to the 2001 UK Census 1,053,411 people (1.8% of the country's population) was of Indian descent. Between 2001 and 2005, National Statistics has released estimates for the number of Indians in England only. They were as follows: 2001 - 1,045,600, 2002 - 1,074,700, 2003 - 1,109,100, 2004 - 1,156,000, 2005 - 1,215,400. In 2008, including those of Partial Indian heritage, there are likely to be at least 1,500,000 in England alone, with around 1,600,000 in the UK as a whole.[2]
See also: Lists of U.K. locations with large Indian populations
The table below shows the dispersity of Indian people in the United Kingdom. The figures for all of the English regions, cities and boroughs are based on 2005 estimates, whilst the figures for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are from the 2001 Census.
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Harrow - 22.0% Indian Hounslow - 18.3% Brent - 18.1% Ealing - 15.0% Redbridge - 14.3% Newham - 12.1% Hillingdon - 10.0% Barnet - 8.8% Croydon - 7.5% |
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Wolverhampton - 12.0% Indian Coventry - 8.1% Birmingham - 6.0% Walsall - 5.5% Sandwell - 9.4% |
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Leicester - 24.9% Indian Oadby and Wigston - 11.2% Charnwood - 5.0% Derby - 4.0% Blaby - 3.5% Nottingham - 3.0% Northampton - 2.2% |
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Slough - 14.7% Indian | |||||||||
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Blackburn - 10.2% Indian Preston - 8.3% Bolton - 5.9% Trafford - 2.4% Manchester - 2.3% |
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Cambridge - 2.7% Indian Bedford - 4.3% Luton - 4.2% |
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Bradford - 2.9% Indian Leeds - 2.2% Kirklees - 4.2% Sheffield - 1.1% |
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Bristol - 3.9% Indian Gloucester - 2.0% Swindon - 3.0% |
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Glasgow - 2.4% Indian | |||||||||
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Newcastle Upon Tyne - 1.7% Indian | |||||||||
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Cardiff - 1.3% Indian | |||||||||
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According to the 2001 Census, the religious breakdown of Indians in the UK is as follows[12]:
| Religion | Percentage of Indian pop. | Percentage of total British pop. | Population (2001) |
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 Hinduism |
45% | British Indian Hindus represent 88% of the British Hindu community and 1.4% of the UK population |
475,000 |
 Sikhism |
29% | British Indian Sikhs represent 64% of the British Sikh community and 0.8% of the UK population |
316,000 |
 Islam |
13% | British Indian Muslims represent 11% of the British Muslim community and 0.3% of the UK population |
126,000 |
 Christianity |
5% | British Indian Christian represent represent 0.2% of the British Christian community and 0.1% of the UK population |
53,000 |
| Other | 8% | British Indians of another religion represent 0.2% of the UK population | 84,000 |
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