Census: Rural Staffordshire 'is one of the 'whitest' places in England'
STAFFORDSHIRE Moorlands is the third 'whitest' place in England and Wales, according to the 2011 census.
The proportion of people in the Moorlands who described themselves as 'white British' was 97.5 per cent, with all white ethnic groups making up 98.7 per cent of the population.
Only Redcar and Cleveland in the North East, and Allerdale in Cumbria had proportionally more white people.
While the number of foreign-born residents in England and Wales has increased by nearly three million to 7.5 million over the last 10 years, the Staffordshire Moorlands has remained largely homogenous.
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Out of a total population of 97,106, only 1,581 people belong to ethnic minority groups.
District Councillor Mahfooz Ahmad, pictured left, was born in Pakistan but has lived in the Moorlands for 45 years.
Despite being one of the few Asians living in the district, he says he has never been made to feel like an outsider.
Mr Ahmad said: "I first came to live in Werrington in 1967. Back then I knew of only one other Asian man in the area, who worked as a doctor.
"I can't really say why there fewer ethnic minorities in the Moorlands, all I can talk about are my own experiences. And I have always been made to feel welcome in the Moorlands. I have lived here for 45 years, my children went to the local primary school, and I have been a district councillor for 12 years. The fact that I've been elected by the residents shows that I have been welcomed here."
In Stoke-on-Trent, 8.3 per cent of the population is foreign-born, with 5 per cent having arrived in the UK within the last 10 years.
The most common countries of origin for non-British born people in Stoke-on-Trent are Pakistan, Poland and India.
Comments
by buster01
Friday, December 14 2012, 12:40AM
“If 'The sheep are less in-bread then some of the people' then it doesn't bode well for Stokies.”
by stevenweiss
Thursday, December 13 2012, 8:03PM
“good”
by warren-lloyd
Thursday, December 13 2012, 5:58PM
“The sheep are less in-bread then some of the people....lol.”
by gengar1
Thursday, December 13 2012, 5:45PM
“in fairness my experience of the moorlands is that they dont even accept white people that havent lived there for at least 30 years....is that the sound of banjos i hear??”
by Alberus
Thursday, December 13 2012, 4:37PM
“It's bloody cold and expensive in the Moorlands. Are these prices worth paying to live in an illusory world of an England of the past? Some people may think so and I can't see applications to build mosques in Leek or Biddulph becoming a reality in most of the lifetimes of the trusty worthies on this site. So it may be very tempting to relocate to these seeming Shangri-las of North Staffordshire and cock a snook at the rest of the populace who struggle to assimilate the problems of the onward march of Islam. To think I lived in Biddulph in the sixties. I wouldn' t live there again though. Like I said, it's too cold and I could't afford to now. To say nothing of petrol prices.”
by warren-lloyd
Thursday, December 13 2012, 4:03PM
“No, in fact, I'd miss them, with the gorm-less uneducated look there faces, the smell of cheep tinned ham and German Beer, silly beards- that just on the women- and their displaying of the Union Jack up side down.”
by Robnoxious
Thursday, December 13 2012, 12:27PM
“Sew kan wee more da bigouts owt if toke-ton- tent. spillchequer snot worcing agen. HIT”
by warren-lloyd
Thursday, December 13 2012, 12:12PM
“So can we more all the bigots out if Stoke on Trent down the road to the Moorlands. Then again, you would have to think of the welfare of the sheep, you know what these Patriots are like.”
by mainstar
Thursday, December 13 2012, 11:29AM
“So what. Does it really matter who lives where and what damm colour they are. This is getting so tedious.”
by strandedhere
Thursday, December 13 2012, 11:14AM
“How does the Sentinel compare? How White is it?”