Editing Luton (section)

===Ethnicity===
[[File:Luton ethnic demography from 1971 to 2021.gif|thumb|Ethnic demography of Luton from 1971 to 2021]]
{| class="wikitable" style="display: inline-table;"
| colspan="14" style="text-align:center;" |'''Luton: Ethnicity''': 2011 Census<ref name="2011census">{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=6275157&c=luton&d=13&e=62&g=6394327&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1361379856428&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2477|title=Local Authority by Ethnic Group|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=20 February 2013}}</ref> and 2021 Census<ref name="2021 Nomis"/>
|-
! Ethnic group
! 2011<br />Population
! 2011<br />%
!
! 2021<br />Population
! 2021<br />%
|-
||White
| style="text-align:right;" |111,079
| style="text-align:right;" |54.7
|
| style="text-align:right;" |101,798
| style="text-align:right;" |45.2
|-
|Mixed
| style="text-align:right;" |8,281
| style="text-align:right;" |4.1
|
| style="text-align:right;" |9,620
| style="text-align:right;" |4.3
|-
|Asian or Asian British
| style="text-align:right;" |60,952
| style="text-align:right;" |30.0
|
| style="text-align:right;" |83,325
| style="text-align:right;" |37.0
|-
|Black or Black British
| style="text-align:right;" |19,909
| style="text-align:right;" |9.8
|
| style="text-align:right;" |22,735
| style="text-align:right;" |10.1
|-
|Other Ethnic Group
| style="text-align:right;" |2,980
| style="text-align:right;" |1.5
|
| style="text-align:right;" |7,783
| style="text-align:right;" |3.5
|-
|Total
| style="text-align:right;" |203,201
| style="text-align:right;" |100
|
| style="text-align:right;" |225,261
| style="text-align:right;" |100
|}

Luton has seen several waves of immigration. In the early part of the 20th century, migrants from [[Ireland]] and [[Scotland]] came to the town. These were followed by [[South Asia]]n and [[British African-Caribbean community|Afro-Caribbean]] immigrants. More recently immigrants from [[Europe]]an countries such as [[Albania]] have made Luton their home. As a result of this Luton has a diverse ethnic mix, with a significant population of Asian descent, mainly [[British Pakistanis|Pakistani]] (41,143 residents, 18.3%) and [[Bangladeshi people|Bangladeshi]] (20,630, 9.2%).<ref name="TS021">{{cite web |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS021/editions/2021/versions/3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004032733/https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS021/editions/2021/versions/3 |archive-date=4 October 2023 |title=Ethnic group Census 2021: dataset TS021  |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=29 November 2022 |website=ons.gov.uk |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=22 March 2024}}</ref> People in Asian ethnic groups accounted for 86% of Luton's [[Muslim]] population in 2021.<ref name="RM031">{{cite web |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/RM031/editions/2021/versions/1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215075531/https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/RM031/editions/2021/versions/1 |archive-date=15 February 2024 |title=Ethnic group by religion: Census 2021 dataset RM031 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=29 November 2022 |website=ons.gov.uk |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=22 March 2024}}</ref>

As of the 2021 census, the White British (White English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish) population of Luton comprised less than a third of the total (31.8%), the twelfth lowest proportion out of 318 local authorities in England and Wales and the second lowest (after [[Slough]]) outside of London.<ref name="TS021"/> Overall, 45.2% of Luton's population in 2021 was White (including non-British White people),<ref name="TS021"/> down from 54.7% in 2011.

In 2011 81% of the population of Luton defined themselves as British.<ref>{{cite news|last=Philipson |first=Alice |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9792392/White-Britons-a-minority-in-Leicester-Luton-and-Slough.html|title=White Britons a minority in Leicester, Luton and Slough|website=The Daily Telegraph |date=10 January 2013 |access-date=17 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113024453/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9792392/White-Britons-a-minority-in-Leicester-Luton-and-Slough.html|archive-date=13 January 2013}}</ref>