Editing Dundee (section)

===Residents===

The place of birth of the town's residents was 94.16% United Kingdom (including 87.85% from Scotland), 0.42% Ireland, 1.33% from other [[European Union]] (EU) countries, and 3.09% from elsewhere in the world. The economic activity of residents aged 16–74 was 35.92% in full-time employment, 10.42% in part-time employment, 4.25% self-employed, 5.18% unemployed, 7.82% students with jobs, 4.73% students without jobs, 15.15% retired, 4.54% looking after home or family, 7.92% permanently sick or disabled, and 4.00% economically inactive for other reasons. Compared with the average demography of Scotland, Dundee has both low proportions of people born outside the United Kingdom and for people over 75&nbsp;years old.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|+ '''City of Dundee compared according to the [[United Kingdom Census 2011#2011 Census for Scotland|2011 UK census]]'''<ref name="Dundee 2011 Population">{{Cite web |title=Scotland's Census |url=https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/search-the-census#/explore/snapshot |access-date=6 June 2021 |website=www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk |archive-date=14 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514142653/https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/search-the-census#/explore/snapshot |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Dundee Population">{{harvnb|Comparative Population: Dundee }}</ref><ref name="Dundee Employment">{{harvnb|Comparative Employment: Dundee }}</ref>
|-
!
!style="padding:2px;"|City of Dundee
!style="padding:2px;"|Scotland
!style="padding:2px;"|United Kingdom
|-
! style="text-align:left;"|Total population
| 147,268 || 5,295,403 || 63,182,000
|-
! style="text-align:left;"|[[British nationality law|Foreign born]]
| 9% || 7% || 12.7%
|-
! style="text-align:left;"|Over 75 years old
| 8.3% || 7.7% || 7.9%
|-
! style="text-align:left;"|Unemployed
| 5.7% || 4.8% || 7.4%
|}

Natives of Dundee are called Dundonians and are often recognisable by their distinctive dialect of [[Scots language|Scots]] as well as their [[Accent (dialect)|accent]], which most noticeably substitutes the [[monophthong]] /ɛ/ (pronounced "eh") in place of the [[diphthong]] /aj/ (pronounced "ai").<ref>{{harvnb|McCluskey|1991}}; {{harvnb|Dundee Scots }}</ref> Dundee, and Scotland more generally, saw rapid population increase at end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, with the city's population increasing from 12,400 in 1751 to 30,500 in 1821.<ref name="Smout 1998 240–248"/> Of particular significance was an influx of Irish workers in the early to mid-19th century, attracted by the prospect of employment in the textiles industries. In 1851, 18.9% of people living in Dundee were of Irish birth.<ref>{{harvnb|Swift|Gilley|1989|p=117}}; {{harvnb|Little Tipperary: The Irish in Lochee }}</ref>

The city has also attracted immigrants from Italy, fleeing poverty and famine, in the 19th century Jews, fleeing from the Russia controlled portions of partitioned Poland and from German occupation in the 20th. Today, Dundee has a sizeable [[ethnic minority]] population, and has around 4,000 Asian residents which is the fourth-largest Asian community in Scotland. The city also has 1.0% of residents from a Black/African/Caribbean background.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release2a/rel2asbfigure4.pdf |title=Figure 4: Minority ethnic groups by council area, Scotland, 2011 |access-date=30 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022230302/http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release2a/rel2asbfigure4.pdf |archive-date=22 October 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>