Housing Needs Assessment 2006 - Westminster City Council

16. Black and Minority Ethnic households16. Black and Minority Ethnic households16.1 IntroductionInformation was gathered in the survey to find out the ethnic origin of the head of household (andpartner if applicable) for each sample household in the survey. The categories used on the surveyforms were consistent with those used in the 2001 Census. Due to the small sample size of some ofthe groups, some of the categories have been re-grouped, resulting in nine different ethnic groups.The table below shows estimates of the number of households in each of the nine ethnic groups andthe number of survey responses. For the analysis in this chapter, the ethnic group of the surveyrespondent is taken to represent the head of household.Ethnic groupTable 16.1 Number of households in each ethnic groupTotal numberof households% ofhouseholdsNumber ofreturns% of returnsWhite - British 65,921 58.7% 593 47.0%White - Irish 4,914 4.4% 58 4.6%White - Other 17,195 15.3% 107 8.5%Mixed 3,021 2.7% 98 7.8%Asian or Asian British 7,213 6.4% 103 8.2%Black or Black British - African 5,604 5.0% 116 9.2%Black or Black British - Other 2,173 1.9% 50 4.0%Arab 4,439 3.9% 97 7.7%Any other ethnic group 1,914 1.7% 39 3.1%Total 112,395 100.0% 1,261 100.0%Source: City of Westminster Housing Needs Survey 2006The above table shows that overall, White households were slightly under-represented amongstsurvey respondents whereas Black households were slightly over-represented. The survey estimatesthat just under 80% of households in the City are headed by a White person, 6.9% are headed by aBlack person, 6.4% by an Asian person, 2.7% by a person of mixed race, 3.9% by an Arab personand 1.7% by a person that classified themselves as an other ethnic group. In total around 20% ofhouseholds are headed by someone who describes themselves as non-white, although a further19.7% of households are headed by a White non-British person.16.2 Household sizeThe number of persons in each household disaggregated by ethnic origin is shown in the tablebelow.PAGE 145