Demographics of Coventry

Coventry, England is an ethnically and culturally diverse city. It is the fifteenth most populous city in the United Kingdom.

Population
Coventry's total population, according to the 2011 UK census, was 316,960. The population density was 3,408 people per square km.

Ethnicity
The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 censuses in Coventry.

There was likely around 3,000 to 5,000 'coloured' people in Coventry in 1958, half of these being Asians (2,000 Indians and 1,500 Pakistanis) and 400 Afro-Caribbeans.

Coventry has declined from a 88.1% White overall city to one with less than two-thirds of its population. Asian British people have risen from around 1 in 10 (9.7%) to around nearly 1 in 5 (18.5). Black British people have experienced an explosive growth, coming primarily from the increasing African population, they have risen from 1.6% to 8.9% from 1991 to 2021. The Mixed and Other ethnicities have also increased as well.

Notes for table above

Ethnicity of school pupils

Coventry's schools are in a majority-minority state with no-overall ethnic majority present, however of broad multi-ethnic groups, Whites make up the majority with 54.3% of the population.

Languages
The most common main languages spoken in Coventry according to the 2011 census are shown below.

Country of birth
Coventry's population is 27.9% foreign born as of 2021.

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