Oxfordshire Insight

Rose Drummond of the Office for National Statistics, is undertaking an analysis of the difference in ethnicity recording across health data, in collaboration with Wellcome and the Race Equality Foundation to provide clarity around estimates for England.

The issue

The recent Census 2021 ethnic group release is able to give us a detailed insight into the ethnicities found within the county.

Since 1991, the Census for England and Wales has included a question about ethnic group.

The pattern of population change varies across the county

In 2021 the population of Oxfordshire was 725,314, an increase of 71,516 (+11%)  from 653,798 in 2011.