I've just had a quick look through the information we've been provided with from the latest census figures which were released this morning. We have information on:

- Overall population size
- Number of households
- Age and sex of residents
- Household and resident characteristics (number of residents in a household, legal partnership status, household size and some information on deprivation)
- Country of birth
- Passport status
- Year of arrival in the UK

Here is a key fact people may be interested in:

“Out of the 59.6 million usual residents in England and Wales in 2021, 49.6 million (83.2%) were born in the UK and 10.0 million (16.8%) were born outside the UK. This means that about one in six people in England and Wales were born outside the UK. The size of the non-UK born population has risen since 2011, when it was 7.5 million (13.4%).”

However, I can’t see anything relating to the ethnic breakdown of the population which is the most important set of statistics. Country of birth doesn’t matter as much as an ethnically British person could be born abroad and move to England, or a Pakistani person could be born in England and not feature in these figures as they were born here.

Britain was just under 82% "White British" back in 2011. What is it today, I wonder?