West Midlands

Approximate Population: 303,475

Similar to most major British cities, Coventry has a fairly large ethnic minority population, non-indigenous making up 25.2% of the population as of 2006 estimates.  The breakdown of the ethnic minority population is not typical, the Sikhs are the largest non-Christian religion, there are significant numbers of other South Asians but the black population is just above average at 3.1%.

The ethnic minority population is mainly concentrated in the Foleshill ward and the St. Michael’s ward. The indigenous population makes up 74.8% of the population, White Irish people make up 2.8%, and Other White people make up 2.9%. 8.2% of the city’s population is Indian, 2.2% Pakistani, 0.8% Other South Asian, 0.7% Bangladeshi. 1.7% of people are Black African, 1.2% Black Caribbean, 0.2% Other Black. People belonging to two or more races make up 2.1% of the population, the Chinese make up 1.5% and Others (mainly Orientals) make up the remaining 0.9%.

Traditionally a part of Warwickshire (although it was a county in its own right for 400 years), Coventry became an independent county borough in 1889. It later became a metropolitan district of the West Midlands county under the Local Government Act (1974), even though it was entirely separate to the Birmingham conurbation area (this is why Coventry appears to unnaturally “jut out” into Warwickshire on political maps of the UK). In 1986, the West Midlands County Council was abolished and Coventry became administered as an effective unitary authority in its own right.

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