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Useful info about
Manchester. The United Kingdom Census 2001 showed a
total resident population for Manchester of 392,819, a 9.2%
decline from the 1991 census. Approximately 83,000 were aged
under 16, 285,000 were aged 16–74, and 25,000 aged 75 and
over. 75.9% of Manchester's population claim they have been
born in the UK, according to the 2001 UK Census. Inhabitants
of Manchester are known as Mancunians or Mancs for short.
Manchester reported the second-lowest proportion of the
population in employment of any area in the UK. A primary
reason cited for Manchester's high unemployment figure is
the high proportion of the population who are students.[70]
A 2007 report noted "60 per cent of Manchester people are
living in some of the UK's most deprived areas". Mid-year
estimates for 2006 indicate that the population of the
metropolitan borough of Manchester stood at 452,000 making
Manchester the most populous city in North West England.
Historically the population of Manchester only began to
rapidly increase during the Victorian era and peaked at
766,311 in 1931. After the peak the population began to
decrease rapidly, reasons cited for this are slum clearance
and the increased building of social housing overspill
estates by Manchester City Council after WWII such as
Hattersley and Langley.
The inhabitants of Manchester, like in many other large
cities, are religiously diverse. The Jewish population is
second only to London in the UK and it also has one of the
largest Muslim populations in Greater Manchester.
Manchester's Palace Hotel hosted the 2007 Lloyds TSB's
Northern Jewel Awards, where leaders of the Asian community
in the north of the UK were recognised.
The percentage of the population in Manchester who reported
themselves as living in the same household in a same-sex
relationship was 0.44%, compared to the English national
average of 0.20%.
In terms of districts by ethnic diversity, the City of
Manchester is ranked highest in Greater Manchester and 34th
in England. 2005 estimates state 77.6% people as 'White'
(71.0% of residents as White British, 3.0% White Irish, 3.6%
as Other White – although those of mixed white European and
British ancestry is unknown, there are over 25,000
Mancunians of Italian descent alone which represents 5.5% of
the city's population. 3.2% as Mixed race (1.3% Mixed White
and Black Caribbean, 0.6% Mixed White and Black African,
0.7% Mixed White and Asian, 0.7% Other Mixed). 10.3% of the
city's population are South Asian (2.3% Indian, 5.8%
Pakistani, 1.0% Bangladeshi, 1.2% Other South Asian). 5.2%
are Black (2.0% Black Caribbean, 2.7% Black African and 0.5%
Other Black). 2.3% of the city's population are Chinese, and
1.4% are another ethnic group. Kidd identifies Moss Side,
Longsight, Cheetham Hill, Rusholme, as centres of population
for ethnic minorities. Manchester's Irish Festival,
including a St Patrick's Day parade, is one of Europe's
largest. There is also a well-established Chinatown in the
city with a substantial number of oriental restaurants and
Chinese supermarkets. The area also attracts large numbers
of Chinese students to the city, attending the two
universities.
Based on the population estimates for 2005, crime levels in
the city are considerably higher than the national average.
Some parts of Manchester have been adversely affected by its
recent rapid urbanisation, resulting in high levels of crime
in areas such as Moss Side and Wythenshawe.[80] The number
of theft from a vehicle offences and theft of a vehicle per
1,000 of the population was 25.5 and 8.9 compared to the
English national average of 7.6 and 2.9 respectively. The
number of sexual offences was 1.9 compared to the average of
0.9. The national average of violence against another person
was 16.7 compared to the Manchester average of 32.7. The
figures for crime statistics were all recorded during the
2006/7 financial year.
The Manchester Larger Urban Zone, a Eurostat measure of the
functional city-region approximated to local government
districts, has a population of 2,539,100 in 2004.[83] In
addition to Manchester itself, the LUZ includes the
remainder of the county of Greater Manchester. The
Manchester LUZ is the second largest within the United
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