2021 census reveals 25% increase of households with members of more than one ethnicity. Here, families reveal their experiences
In a week when a lady-in-waiting demanded of a woman from Hackney “where are you really from?”, the results arrived of the 2021 census, which asked what felt to some a similar question.
The Office for National Statistics asked the people of England and Wales to tick one of 19 ethnicity boxes and it has emerged there are now 2.5m households with members of more than one ethnicity – a 25% increase on 2011.
