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The term Other White, or White Other, is a classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom, used in documents such as the 2021 United Kingdom Census, to describe people who identify as White people persons who are not of the English people, Welsh people, Scottish people, Romani people, Irish people or Irish Travellers ethnic groupings. In Scotland, the term Other White is also used to refer collectively to those not of Scottish or Other British ethnicity, in which case it also includes those of a Gypsy, Roma, Irish or Irish Traveller background.
The category does not comprise a single ethnic group; rather, it serves a means of identification for white individuals not represented by other white census categories. Consequently, the Other White group encompasses a diverse range of people, and includes those born in Britain and those born elsewhere.
According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, those identifying as Other White in England & Wales enumerated 3,667,997, or 6.2% of the population. The largest represented ethnic groups in the Other White category were Poles (614,000 people) and Romanians (343,000 people). In Scotland, the largest represented ethnic groups classed as Other White were Poles (61,000 people) and Irish (54,000 people).
In 2011, the Scottish Government introduced the category White Polish as a means of identifying the Polish diaspora in Scotland.
Along with White British and White Irish, the Other White category does not appear in Northern Ireland, where only one "White" classification was presented to respondents.
| + Other White population by region and country | |||||||
| 6.35% | |||||||
| 14.67% | |||||||
| 6.32% | |||||||
| 6.78% | |||||||
| 5.30% | |||||||
| 4.52% | |||||||
| 3.42% | |||||||
| 4.18% | |||||||
| 3.80% | |||||||
| 1.96% | |||||||
| 4.68% | |||||||
| 4.60% | |||||||
| 2.67% | |||||||
In the 2001 UK Census, the majority of people living in England and Wales ticking the 'Other White' ethnic group specified their ethnicity as European. Four out of five of the 'Other White' category (i.e. not British or Irish) were born overseas. A third were born in a Western European country other than the UK, and one in seven were born in an Eastern European country.
Outside of Europe, countries derived from former British colonies such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States were among the top ten birthplaces (which included the UK itself). This suggested that, in 2001, significant numbers of Canadian Britons, Australian Briton, New Zealand Britons, American Britons and South African Britons, such as those born abroad to British parents and returned to the UK as minors, identified as White Other. It may also be that those who identify as white Canadians, white Australians, white New Zealanders, white Americans or white South Africans have migrated to the country as adults.
| Christianity | 1,617,833 | 65.08% | 2,202,595 | 60.05% |
| No religion | 464,911 | 18.70% | 933,703 | 25.46% |
| Islam | 131,056 | 5.27% | 131,425 | 3.58% |
| Judaism | 39,319 | 1.58% | 49,125 | 1.34% |
| Buddhism | 9,275 | 0.37% | 9,658 | 0.26% |
| Hinduism | 4,740 | 0.19% | 1,368 | 0.04% |
| Sikhism | 1,795 | 0.07% | 607 | 0.02% |
| Other religions | 11,749 | 0.47% | 31,925 | 0.87% |
| Not Stated | 205,134 | 8.25% | 307,587 | 8.39% |
In 2019, the Other White group had a median hourly pay of £11.54 (8% less than the White British group).
In 2021, the Other White group had an employment rate of 82% - the highest in England, Scotland and Wales.
According to a 2022 Civitas report, Other White citizens have average wealth or assets of £53,200.
| White British | £166,700 |
| Indian | £144,400 |
| Black Caribbean | £85,000 |
| Chinese | £67,300 |
| White Other | £53,200 |
| Pakistani | £52,000 |
| Bangladeshi | £22,800 |
| Black African | £18,100 |
| White: European Mixed | 646,118 | 1.1 |
| White: Polish | 614,344 | 1.0 |
| White: Romanian | 342,651 | 0.6 |
| White: Other White, White unspecified | 211,287 | 0.4 |
| White: Other Eastern European | 166,179 | 0.3 |
| White: Italian | 148,661 | 0.2 |
| White: Lithuanian | 97,217 | 0.2 |
| White: Portuguese | 93,608 | 0.2 |
| White: Bulgarian | 89,546 | 0.2 |
| White: North American | 82,985 | 0.1 |
| White: Spanish | 81,150 | 0.1 |
| White: French | 78,502 | 0.1 |
| White: Greek | 73,719 | 0.1 |
| White: German | 66,174 | 0.1 |
| White: Hungarian | 65,697 | 0.1 |
| White: Australian/New Zealander | 61,172 | 0.1 |
| White: Turkish | 61,102 | 0.1 |
| White: South African | 57,648 | 0.1 |
| White: Latvian | 48,070 | 0.1 |
| White: Russian | 44,662 | 0.1 |
| White: Albanian | 40,879 | 0.1 |
| White: Slovakian | 36,936 | 0.1 |
| White: Jewish | 34,105 | 0.1 |
| White: Hispanic or Latin American | 32,335 | 0.1 |
| White: Greek Cypriot | 29,472 | 0.0 |
| White: Czech | 25,023 | 0.0 |
| White: Brazilian | 24,221 | 0.0 |
| White: Dutch | 23,721 | 0.0 |
| White: Any other ethnic group | 22,309 | 0.0 |
| White: Other Mixed | 21,092 | 0.0 |
| White: Mixed Irish | 20,278 | 0.0 |
| White: White African | 20,273 | 0.0 |
| White: Ukrainian | 16,297 | 0.0 |
| White: Swedish | 16,132 | 0.0 |
| White: Kosovan | 13,145 | 0.0 |
| White: Danish | 9,453 | 0.0 |
| White: Turkish Cypriot | 9,398 | 0.0 |
| White: Serbian | 7,906 | 0.0 |
| White: Finnish | 7,892 | 0.0 |
| White: Belgian | 7,576 | 0.0 |
| White: Iranian | 7,356 | 0.0 |
| White: Swiss | 7,005 | 0.0 |
| White: Croatian | 6,995 | 0.0 |
| White: Norwegian | 6,814 | 0.0 |
| White: South American | 6,600 | 0.0 |
| White: Other Middle East | 6,527 | 0.0 |
| White: Cypriot (part not stated) | 5,956 | 0.0 |
| White: Austrian | 5,825 | 0.0 |
| White: Estonian | 5,147 | 0.0 |
| White: Kurdish | 5,091 | 0.0 |
| White: Maltese | 4,971 | 0.0 |
| White: Arab | 3,931 | 0.0 |
| White: Armenian | 3,807 | 0.0 |
| White: Slovenian | 3,719 | 0.0 |
| White: White Caribbean | 3,469 | 0.0 |
| White: Macedonian | 3,446 | 0.0 |
| White: Other North African | 3,375 | 0.0 |
| White: Moldovan | 3,207 | 0.0 |
| White: Mixed White | 2,991 | 0.0 |
| White: Israeli | 2,981 | 0.0 |
| White: African unspecified | 2,805 | 0.0 |
| White: Bosnian | 2,633 | 0.0 |
| White: Belarusian | 2,522 | 0.0 |
| White: Argentinian | 2,156 | 0.0 |
| White: Georgian | 2,149 | 0.0 |
| White: White and North African or Middle Eastern | 2,035 | 0.0 |
| White: Colombian | 1,976 | 0.0 |
| White: Zimbabwean | 1,803 | 0.0 |
| White: Algerian | 1,776 | 0.0 |
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