Demography of Slough

Population density in the 2011 census in Slough.

Population

The modern town of Slough grew from the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England. The populations given below are for the successive institutional areas of the principal local government level that could be recognised as Slough, now in Berkshire.

Year	Population	Notes
1801	1,018[1]	Parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey
1811	1,083[1]
1821	1,268[1]
1831	1,502[1]
1841	2,296[1]
1851	3,573[1]
1861	4,688[1]
1871	5,940[1]
1881	7,030[1]
1891	7,700[1]
1901	11,453[1]	Slough Urban District from 1894; area enlarged in 1900[2]
1911	14,982[1]
1921	16,392[1]
1931	33,612[1]	area enlarged in 1930/1931[2]
1939	50,620[1]	estimate (1941 census not taken due to World War II):Municipal Borough from 1938
1951	66,471[1]
1961	80,781[1]
1971	87,075[1]
1981	96,512[3]	Borough of Slough in Berkshire and area enlarged from 1974
1991	101,066[3]
2001	119,070[4]	Area enlarged in 1995: Unitary Authority from 1998
2011	140,200[5]	Up 16.3% on the 2001 Census, and 6.9% higher than the previous mid-2010 population estimate
2016	149,400	ONS - based on 2012 population trends

Ethnicity

The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 censuses in Slough.

Ethnic Group	2001[6]		2011[7]
	Number	%	Number	%
White: British	69,441	58.32%	48,401	34.52%
White: Irish	2,489	2.09%	1,607	1.15%
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller[note 1]			220	0.16%
White: Other	3,913	3.29%	13,825	9.86%
White: Total	75,843	63.70%	64,053	45.69%
Asian or Asian British: Indian	16,719	14.04%	21,922	15.64%
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani	14,360	12.06%	24,869	17.74%
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi	171	0.14%	549	0.39%
Asian or Asian British: Chinese[note 2]	349	0.29%	797	0.57%
Asian or Asian British: Other Asian	2,022	1.70%	7,560	5.39%
Asian or Asian British: Total	33,621	28.24%	55,697	39.73%
Black or Black British: Caribbean	3,470	2.91%	3,096	2.21%
Black or Black British: African	2,275	1.91%	7,548	5.38%
Black or Black British: Other Black	281	0.24%	1,471	1.05%
Black or Black British: Total	6,026	5.06%	12,115	8.64%
Mixed: White and Black Caribbean	1,116	0.94%	1,667	1.19%
Mixed: White and Black African	224	0.19%	607	0.43%
Mixed: White and Asian	845	0.71%	1,429	1.02%
Mixed: Other Mixed	593	0.50%	1,055	0.75%
Mixed: Total	2,778	2.33%	4,758	3.39%
Other: Arab[note 3]			928	0.66%
Other: Any other ethnic group	799	0.67%	2,654	1.89%
Other: Total	799	0.67%	3,582	2.55%
Total	119,067	100.00%	140,205	100.00%

Notes for table above

1. New category created for the 2011 census
2. In 2001, listed under the 'Chinese or other ethnic group' heading.
3. New category created for the 2011 census

Distribution of ethnic groups in Slough according to the 2011 census.

• 
  White
• 
  White-British
• 
  White-Irish
• 
  White-Other
• 
  Asian
• 
  Asian-Indian
• 
  Asian-Pakistani
• 
  Asian-Bangladeshi
• 
  Asian-Chinese
• 
  Black
• 
  Black-African
• 
  Black-Caribbean
• 
  Other-Arab

Languages

The most common main languages spoken in Slough according to the 2011 UK Census are shown below.[8]

Rank	Language	Usual residents aged 3+	Proportion
1	English	96,508	72.90%
2	Polish	8,249	6.23%
3	Punjabi	8,247	6.23%
4	Urdu	6,568	4.96%
5	Somali	938	0.71%
6	Tamil	860	0.65%
7	Hindi	825	0.62%
8	Arabic	703	0.53%
9	Gujarati	534	0.40%
10	Tagalog/Filipino	484	0.37%
11	Shona	434	0.33%
12	Italian	412	0.31%
13	Pashto	412	0.31%
14	Romanian	401	0.30%
15	French	395	0.30%
16	Swahili/Kiswahili	393	0.30%
17	Persian	382	0.29%
18	Portuguese	373	0.28%
19	Spanish	297	0.22%
20	Bengali (with Sylheti and Chatgaya)	287	0.22%
	Other	4,682	3.54%

Religion

The following table shows the religion of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 censuses in Slough.

Religion	2001[9]		2011[10]
	Number	%	Number	%
Christian	63,993	53.75%	57,726	41.17%
Buddhist	294	0.25%	743	0.53%
Hindu	5,340	4.48%	8,643	6.16%
Jewish	139	0.12%	87	0.06%
Muslim	15,897	13.35%	32,655	23.29%
Sikh	10,820	9.09%	14,889	10.62%
Other religion	358	0.30%	482	0.34%
No religion	13,061	10.97%	17,024	12.14%
Religion not stated	9,165	7.70%	7,956	5.67%
Total	119,067	100.00%	140,205	100.00%

Distribution of religions in Slough according to the 2011 census.

• 
  Christianity
• 
  Islam
• 
  Judaism
• 
  Hinduism
• 
  Sikhism
• 
  Buddhism
• 
  Other religion
• 
  No religion

See also

• Demography of the United Kingdom
• Demography of England
• Demography of London
• Demography of Birmingham
• Demography of Greater Manchester
• List of English cities by population
• List of English districts by population
• List of English districts and their ethnic composition
• List of English districts by area
• List of English districts by population density

References

1. p 153, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973
2. p 151, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973
3. Office for National Statistics, downloaded 31 December 2006
4. A Vision of Britain (Accessed 31 December 2006)
5. (Accessed 29 November 2013)
6. "2001 census - theme tables". NOMIS. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
7. "Download:local authorities: county / unitary". NOMIS. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
8. "Download:local authorities: county / unitary". NOMIS. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
9. "2001 census - theme tables". Retrieved 17 June 2015.
10. "Download:local authorities: county / unitary". NOMIS. Retrieved 17 June 2015.