Editing Grantham (section)

=== Ethnicity and religion ===
According to the 2011 census, Grantham's population<ref>Defined as the ONS E35001363 area – the urban area without Great Gonerby</ref> was 96.3% [[White people|white]]; 2.0% [[Asian people|Asian]] or [[British Asian]]; 0.6% [[Black people|Black]], [[Demographics of Africa|African]], [[Caribbean people|Caribbean]] or [[Black British people|Black British]]; and 0.9% [[Mixed ethnicity|mixed]] or multi-ethnic; and 0.2% other. The population is therefore less ethnically diverse than England as a whole, which is 85.4% white; 7.8% Asian or Asian British; 3.5% Black, African, Caribbean or Black British; 2.3% mixed ethnicities; and 1% other. 90.1% of the town's population were born in the United Kingdom, compared with 86.2% nationally; 6.1% were born in European Union countries other than the UK and Ireland, of which almost three quarters (4.3% of the total) were born in [[Enlargement of the European Union|post-2001 accession states]]; for England, the figures were 3.7% and 2.0% respectively. 3.4% of the population was born outside the EU, whereas the total for England was 9.4%.<ref name="nomis-skeg">{{cite web |title=Grantham Built-Up Area Sub Division: Local Area Report |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E35001363 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219211026/https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E35001363 |archive-date=19 December 2022 |access-date=19 December 2022 |website=Nomis: Official Labour Market Statistics |publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]]}}</ref><ref name="nomis-eng">{{cite web |title=England: Country Report |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E92000001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622012249/https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E92000001 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |access-date=28 June 2020 |website=Nomis: Official Labour Market Statistics |publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]]}}</ref>

In the 2011 census, 69.4% of Grantham's population said they were [[Religion|religious]] and 23.8% said they [[Irreligion|did not follow a religion]], very similar to England as a whole (68.1% and 24.7% respectively). However, compared to England's population, [[Christians]] were a higher proportion of the Grantham population (67.6% compared with 59.4%), and all other groups were present at a lower proportion than the national rates. There were 20 [[Sikhs]] in Grantham, making up a negligible proportion of the population compared with 0.8% nationally; [[Hindus]] composed 0.5% (compared with 1.5% in England), [[Muslims]] 0.5% against 5% nationally, [[Jews|Jewish people]] 0.1% compared with 0.5% for all of England, and [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] 0.3% of the town's population, contrasting with 0.5% nationally.<ref name="nomis-skeg" /><ref name="nomis-eng" />
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none;"
! colspan="14" |Ethnicity, nationality and religious affiliation of residents (2011)<ref name="nomis-skeg" /><ref name="nomis-eng" />
|-
!
!White
!Asian or British Asian
!Black, African, Caribbean or Black British
!Mixed or multi-ethnic
!Other ethnicity
!Born in UK
!Born in EU (except UK and Ireland)
!Born outside EU
!Religious
!Did not follow a religion
!Christian
!Muslim
!Other religions
|-
!Grantham
|96.3%
|2.0%
|0.6%
|0.9%
|0.2%
|90.1%
|6.1%
|3.4%
|69.4%
|23.8%
|67.6%
|0.5%
|0.9%
|-
!England
|85.4%
|7.8%
|3.5%
|2.3%
|1.0%
|86.2%
|3.7%
|9.4%
|68.1%
|24.7%
|59.4%
|5.0%
|2.5%
|}