Demography of 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[3]
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[4]	Borough of Slough in Berkshire and area enlarged from 1974
1991	101,066[4]
2001	119,070[5]	Area enlarged in 1995: Unitary Authority from 1998

2001 census demographics

===Ethnicity===

56.8% White British
14.7% Indian
12.0% Pakistani
3.6% Other White
2.6% Black Caribbean
2.4% Black African
2.0% Other Asian
1.8% White Irish
1.2% Mixed Black and White
0.9% Other
0.8% Mixed Asian and White
0.6% Mixed Other
0.5% Chinese
0.3% Other Black

Faiths

53.8% Christian
13.4% Muslim
11.0% No religion
9.1% Sikh
7.7% Did not state religion
4.5% Hindu
0.3% Buddhist
0.3% Another religion
0.1% Jewish

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r} p 153, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973
2. ^ p 151, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973
3. ^ p 151, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973
4. ^ ^{a b} Office of National Statistics, downloaded 31 December 2006
5. ^ A Vision of Britain (Accessed 31 December 2006)