White British people are now a minority in both London and Birmingham, according to the census
The white British population of London made up 37% of the capital in 2021, or 4.5 million, according to the Office for National Statistics , Brent and Redbridge .
The number of people identifying their ethnic group as white in England and Wales overall has also fallen by around half a million over the last decade. The second most common ethnic group in England and Wales was "Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh" standing at 9.3 per cent, an increase from 7.5% in 2011.
Every other religion in the country has seen an increase or stayed the same, as the data also shows number of people identifying as Muslim has increased by 1.2 million to 3.9 million between 2011 and 2021.
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