White Polish

This article is about one of the white ethnicity classifications used in the United Kingdom census. For the broad racial group, see white people in the United Kingdom. For the general page on Poles in the United Kingdom, see Polish Britons.

White Polish
Total population
United Kingdom Great Britain: 705,080 – 1.1%
(2021/22 Census)[note 1]
 England: 592,562 – 1.1% (2021)[1]
 Scotland: 90,736 – 1.7% (2022)[2]
 Wales: 21,782 – 0.7% (2021)[1]
Northern Ireland: Unavailable (2021)[3]
Regions with significant populations
[citation needed]
Languages
British English · Polish
Religion
Predominantly Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Other White people

White Polish is an ethnicity classification used in Scotland at the 2011 United Kingdom Census. In the 2021 census, the White Polish ethnic group totalled 705,080 in Great Britain, 90,736 of which were in Scotland making up 1.67% of the total population of Scotland at the time.[2]

In England and Wales, the category is not its own section like Scotland meaning write-in answers for "White Polish" are designated under the broader Other White group.[4] However, the Office for National Statistics does provide data on the exact number of individuals who identified themselves as falling under the 'White Polish' ethnic category[1] whereas the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency does not.[3]

The Scottish Government's policy since 2011, however, has been to include "White Polish" as a specific subgrouping of the 5,084,407 white people recorded in Scotland at the last UK census. Other subgroupings in Scotland's census are "White Scottish", "White Other British", "White Irish", "White Gypsy / Traveller", and "White Other White".[4][5][6]


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  1. ^ a b c "TS022 - Ethnic group (detailed)". Office for National Statistics. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Scotland's Census 2022 - Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion - Chart data". Scotland's Census. National Records of Scotland. 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024. Alternative URL 'Search data by location' > 'All of Scotland' > 'Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion' > 'Ethnic Group'
  3. ^ a b "Census 2021 Ethnic group - full detail MS-B02". Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  4. ^ a b "List of ethnic groups". UK Government. Scotland: The ethnicity question in the 2011 Census in Scotland asked respondents to choose from the following 19 ethnic groups: White; White Scottish; Other White British; White Irish; Gypsy / Traveller; White Polish; Other
  5. ^ Suzi Macpherson (9 June 2015). "SPICe Briefing: Ethnicity and Employment" (PDF). Scottish Parliament Information Centre. The current Scottish policy focus on ethnicity, for example, classifies people as "white" (including "white Scottish", "white British", "Irish" and "Polish") ... The largest group of the non-Scottish "white" population were "other British" (7.9%), while the white ethnicities, "Irish" and "Polish", each represented just over one per cent of the Scottish population ... Annexe 1 – The Scottish Population by Ethnicity - White: Polish; 61,201; 1.16%
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