Editing London Borough of Bexley (section)

==Demographics==
[[File:Bexley population pyramid.svg|thumb|left|Population pyramid of the Borough of Bexley in 2021]]
{{Historical populations
|type = UK
|title = Population
|footnote = Source: [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10192973&c_id=10001043&add=N ''A Vision of Britain through time'']
|1801 |4165
|1811 |5164
|1821 |6279
|1831 |7725
|1841 |9616
|1851 |10963
|1861 |16477
|1871 |21991
|1881 |27505
|1891 |35728
|1901 |46904
|1911 |61582
|1921 |77747
|1931 |98160
|1941 |139861
|1951 |199297
|1961 |208138
|1971 |217375
|1981 |214352
|1991 |219422
|2001 |218307
|2011 |231997
}}

In 1801, the [[civil parishes in England|civil parishes]] that form the modern borough had a total population of 4,165. This rose slowly throughout the 19th century, as the district became built up; reaching 10,963 in the middle of the century. When the railways arrived the rate of [[population growth]] increased. The population peaked in the 1970s, when industry began to relocate from London.

In the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 census]], the borough had a population of 218,307; of whom 105,148 were male, and 113,159 female. Of the population, 44.3% were in full-time employment and 11.6% in part-time employment – compared to a London average of 42.6% and 8.6%, respectively. Residents were predominantly owner-occupiers, with 31.7% owning their house outright, and a further 46.5% owning with a mortgage. Only 2.2% were in [[public housing|local authority housing]], with a further 11.5% renting from a [[housing association]], or other registered social landlord.<ref>[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=276746&c=Bexley&d=13&e=16&g=326890&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1235564741074&enc=1 ''Key Figures for 2001 Census: Census Area Statistics: Bexley''] accessed 25 February 2009</ref>

[[File:Bexley Church.JPG|thumb|left|upright=0.75|The distinctive spire of the ancient parish church of St Mary the Virgin in Bexley]]
The greater part of the population are nominal [[Anglicans]], but there are a number of [[Roman Catholic]] churches and nonconformist congregations. In the 2001 Census, 22.7% of the area's population described themselves as [[irreligion|non-religious]] or chose not to state their faith.<ref>[http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4528 London Borough of Bexley, article 4528]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627223511/http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4528 |date=27 June 2012 }}</ref>

[[Baptists]], [[Plymouth Brethren]], and [[Methodist]]s are among the other congregations. In 2008 the former Crayford Methodist Church was purchased by the North West Kent Muslim Association to become a mosque serving Bexley and Dartford boroughs.

In 2011, 58.1% of Bexley's population was between 20 and 64 years old, the lowest percentage in London. 16% of the population was over 65, the third highest behind [[London Borough of Bromley|Bromley]] and [[London Borough of Havering|Havering]]. The average household size is 2.49, up from 2.43 in 2001. The number of households increased by 3.52% to 92,600 between 2001 and 2011, one of the lowest increases in the capital.<ref>[http://data.london.gov.uk/datastorefiles/documents/2011-census-first-results.pdf London Census 2011] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021093542/http://data.london.gov.uk/datastorefiles/documents/2011-census-first-results.pdf |date=21 October 2014 }}</ref>

In 2011, 62.5% of the borough's population identified themselves as Christian, with 24.1% having no religion. Both figures are above London's average.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=6275019&c=Bexley&d=13&e=62&g=6319542&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1392853272210&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2479|title=Local statistics – Office for National Statistics|website=neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714132945/http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=6275019&c=Bexley&d=13&e=62&g=6319542&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1392853272210&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2479|archive-date=2014-07-14|url-status=dead|access-date=16 May 2017}}</ref>

The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 census in Bexley.

===Ethnicity===
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
! rowspan="3" |Ethnic Group
! colspan="12" |Year
|-
! colspan="2" |1971 estimations<ref>{{Cite web |title=Migration and London's growth |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/74375221.pdf#page=94 |publisher=LSE}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1981 estimations<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1985 |title=Ethnic minorities in Britain: statistical information on the pattern of settlement |url=https://jstor.org/stable/community.28327806 |journal=Commission for Racial Equality |language=English |pages=Table 2.2|last1= Equality|first1= Commission for Racial}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1991 census<ref>{{cite web |title=1991 census – theme tables |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/asv2htm.aspx |access-date=20 January 2017 |publisher=NOMIS}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2001 census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/submit.asp?forward=yes&menuopt=201&subcomp= |title=KS006 – Ethnic group  |publisher=NOMIS |access-date=30 January 2016}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2011 census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/QS201EW/view/1946157259?cols=measures |title=Ethnic Group by measures |publisher=NOMIS |access-date=8 January 2016}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2021 census<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ethnic group - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS021/editions/2021/versions/1/filter-outputs/d2f0a39a-75b6-4995-b4bd-a5b68ff79027#get-data |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}</ref>
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
![[White people in the United Kingdom|White]]: Total
!–
!98.1%
!204,367
!95.8%
!203,117
!94.2%
!199,510
!91.39%
!189,962
!81.88%
!177,164
!71.8%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[White British|British]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 191,947|| 87.93% || 179,250 || 77.26%
|158,842
|64.4%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[White Irish|Irish]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 3,025 || 1.39% || 2,596|| 1.12%
|2,528
|1.0%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[White Gypsy or Irish Traveller|Gypsy or Irish Traveller]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–||  –||  –|| 624|| 0.27%
|620
|0.3%
|-
|White: Roma
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|302
|0.1%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[Other White|Other]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 4,538|| 2.08% || 7,492|| 3.23%
|14,872
|6.0%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[British Asian|Asian or Asian British]]: Total 
!–
!–
!–
!–
!8,133
!3.8%!! 8,934 !! 4.09% !! 15,243 !! 6.57%
!24,434
!9.9%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Indians|Indian]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|5231
| || 5,548 || 2.54% || 7,047|| 3.04%
|10,925
|4.4%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Pakistanis|Pakistani]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|267
| || 334|| 0.15% || 730 || 0.31%
|1,383
|0.6%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Bangladeshis|Bangladeshi]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|282
| || 386|| 0.18% || 777|| 0.33%
|1,790
|0.7%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Chinese|Chinese]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|1201
| || 1,555 || 0.71% || 2,514|| 1.08%
|3,990
|1.6%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|1152
| || 1,111 || 0.51% || 4,175|| 1.80%
|6,346
|2.6%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Black British people|Black or Black British]]: Total  
!–
!–
!–
!–
!3,012
!1.4%!! 6,252 !! 2.86% !! 19,624 !! 8.46%
!30,075
!12.2%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: [[British African-Caribbean people|African]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|918
| 0.4%|| 4,085 || 1.87% || 15,952 || 6.88%
|23,262
|9.4%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: [[British African-Caribbean people|Caribbean]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|1466
| || 1,762 || 0.81% || 2,381 || 1.03%
|3,230
|1.3%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: [[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom|Other Black]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|628
| || 405 || 0.19% || 1,291 || 0.56%
|3,583
|1.5%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed or British Mixed]]: Total 
!–
!–
!–
!–
!–
!–!! 2,872 !! 1.32% !! 5,395 !! 2.33%
!8,740
!3.6%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Black Caribbean 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 868 || 0.40% || 1,676 || 0.72%
|2,489
|1.0%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Black African 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 394 || 0.18% || 983 || 0.42%
|1,726
|0.7%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Asian 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 915 || 0.42% || 1,369|| 0.59%
|2,179
|0.9%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: Other Mixed 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 695 || 0.32% || 1,367 || 0.59%
|2,346
|1.0%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Other: Total 
!–
!–
!–
!–
!1353
!0.62%!! 739 !! 0.34% !! 1,773 !! 0.76%
!6,062
!2.4%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Other: Arab 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–||  –||  –|| 303|| 0.13%
|527
|0.2%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Other: Any other ethnic group 
|–
|–
|–
|–
|1353
|0.62%||  –||  –|| 1,470 || 0.63%
|5,535
|2.2%
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Ethnic minority: Total 
!–
!1.9%
!8,931
!4.2%
!12,498
!5.82%!! 18,797 !! 8.61% !! 42,035 !! 18.12%
!69,311
!28.2%
|-
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Total 
!–
!100%
!213,298 
!100%
!215,615
!100%!! 218,307 !! 100.00% !! 231,997 !! 100.00%
!246,475
!100%
|}