More of people born outside the UK

ROCHDALE has seen a four percentage point rise in the number of residents born outside the UK since 2011.

According to National Census data,

15.5% of the borough’s residents were born overseas in 2021, up from 11.1% 10 years earlier.

Also, there were

8.3% of residents with a non-uk passport.

Manchester had the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any area in Greater Manchester (and the 36th highest in England and Wales), followed by Salford

(19.0%), and then Bolton (16.9%).

Salford has seen the highest rise in the non-uk-born population, up 7.3 percentage points, from 11.7% in 2011.

Manchester also has the highest proportion of non-uk passport holders (19.2%), up from 15.2% 10 years earlier.

Of an estimated 392,940 Greater Manchester residents who were not born in the UK, more than half

(54.6%) were born in the Middle East and Asia, while 35.4% were born in EU nations.

India remained the most common country of birth outside the UK last year (920,000 people,

1.5% of all usual residents), followed by Poland (743,000 people, or 1.2%), and Pakistan (624,000 people, or 1.0%).

But there was a huge 567% rise in the number of people born in Romania, from 80,000 in 2011 to 539,000 in 2021.

The biggest decline was in residents of England and Wales who were born in Ireland, down by

20.3% from 407,000 in 2011 to 325,000 in

2021. Overall, the population of England and Wales grew by more than 3.5 million

(6.3%) in the period between the 2011 and 2021 censuses.

Changes in the population are caused by births, deaths, and internal and international migration.