As shown below, the general health of ‘non-white’ ethnic minorities tends to be better than for ‘white’ people in Grampian and across Scotland as a whole. This likely relates to different age profiles, as shown above. Separate data was not…
For the Grampian region in the 2011 Census, the largest age group for both ‘non-white’ and European ethnic minorities was 25-34, and there were very few ethnic minority people of retirement age or older. This is significant for health, as…
Note: More recent data does not seem to be available for school leaver destinations by local authority and ethnicity. Below is the material from the 2018 edition of How Fair is North East Scotland? The vast majority of school leavers…
In Aberdeen City in 2020-21, 33% of pupils were from an ethnic minority background. In Aberdeenshire the figure was 11%, in Moray it was 9%, and the Scottish average was 15%. Attendance figures was broadly similar for ethnic minority and…
The annual pupil census records data for Scottish schools, providing more precise figures than the ONS population estimates, if only for children and young people. As shown below, schools in Aberdeenshire and Moray have smaller proportions of ethnic minority pupils…
Generally speaking, Grampian is an affluent part of Scotland. In the 2020 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), the Midstocket area of Aberdeen ranked the second least deprived in Scotland, and 116 areas in Grampian fell into the least deprived…
Similar to the pattern across Scotland, ethnic minorities in Grampian lived with less secure tenure than Scottish/British people. On average, four times more ethnic minority people rent from private landlords than Scottish/British people, and even in Aberdeenshire, where home ownership…
2018-19 is the most recent data available for homelessness applications by local authority and ethnicity, and even during this period, recording of ethnicity data seems patchy (see charts below). Ethnicity of Homelessness Applicants by Local Authority, 2018-19
Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Moray Scotland % of MAs 7.7 % 1.5 % 1.8 % 1.6 % % in Population (16+) 8.4 % 3.1 % 1.3 % 4.0 % See also: Skills Development Scotland, 2017. Participation Summaries: Aberdeen City (link);…
Note: the erratic shifts in Grampian’s ethnic minority employment rate are likely an effect of small sample size.
Including people who were employed, self-employed or furloughed. Abdn City2019 Abdn City2020 Abdn Shire2019 Abdn Shire2020 Moray2019 Moray2020 ‘White’ UK Born 79.8% 70.7% 79.9% 80.1% 75.0% 76.2% ‘White’ non-UK Born 79.0% 82.6% 92.8% 82.0% 72.0% 59.4% Ethnic Minority UK Born…
Including people who were employed or self-employed. Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Moray Grampian Scotland Scottish/British 78.8 % 83.4 % 80.4 % 81.2 % 75.3 % Ethnic Minority* 66.5 % 79.1 % 72.9% 70.4 % 62.3 % * Includes ‘colour coded’…
2014-15 2015-16 Change 2014-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 Change 2018-20 Aberdeen City 21.6 14.5 -7.1% 15.4 18.5 17.7 8.7 -9% Aberdeenshire 23.3 22.1 -1.2% 21 21 21.7 14.4 -7.3% Scotland 21.4 22.3 +0.9% 22 22.7 22.9 16.2 -6.7%
Note: This chart includes ‘white’ people born outside the UK and ‘colour coded’ ethnic minorities.
