Demography
Canterbury compared | |||
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2001 UK Census | Canterbury city | Canterbury district | England |
Total population | 43,432 | 135,278 | 49,138,831 |
Foreign born | 11.6% | 5.1% | 9.2% |
White | 95% | 97% | 91% |
Asian | 1.8% | 1.6% | 4.6% |
Black | 0.7% | 0.5% | 2.3% |
Christian | 68% | 73% | 72% |
Muslim | 1.1% | 0.6% | 3.1% |
Hindu | 0.8% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
No religion | 20% | 17% | 15% |
Unemployed | 3.0% | 2.7% | 3.3% |
At the 2001 UK census, the total population of the city's urban area wards was 43,432.
Residents of the city had an average age of 37.1 years, younger than the 40.2 average of the district and the 38.6 average for England. Of the 17,536 households, 35% were one-person households, 39% were couples, 10% were lone parents, and 15% other. Of those aged 16–74 in the city, 27% had a higher education qualification, higher than the 20% national average.
Compared with the rest of England, the city had an above-average proportion of foreign-born residents, at around 12%. Ninety-five percent of residents were recorded as white; the largest minority group was recorded as Asian, at 1.8% of the population. Religion was recorded as 68.2% Christian, 1.1% Muslim, 0.5% Buddhist, 0.8% Hindu, 0.2% Jewish, and 0.1% Sikh. The rest either had no religion, an alternative religion, or did not state their religion.
Population growth in Canterbury since 1901 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1939 | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | 2001 | |||||||||
Population | 24,899 | 24,626 | 23,737 | 24,446 | 26,999 | 27,795 | 30,415 | 33,155 | 43,432 | |||||||||
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