Boston: Census shows most non-British EU passport holders outside London
Boston employs a large number of migrant workers on surrounding farms to harvest fruits and vegetables
A Lincolnshire district has the largest number of non-British EU passport holders outside of London.
The second round of data released from the 2011 Census showed 12.1% of Boston residents held such passports. The Lincolnshire average was 3.5%.
Figures also showed 83.9% of the market town described itself as white British.
Last month the Boston Protest Group held a demonstration aimed at highlighting the pressure it said migrants put on local services.
The district employs a large number of seasonal workers on surrounding farms to harvest fruits and vegetables.
Figures show around 10,000 people born abroad live in Boston - 3,000 of them were from Poland - more than in any local authority outside the South East.
Lincolnshire was shown to be home to about 50,000 foreign-born residents, a rise of about 30,000 since the 2001 Census.
You gotta have faith
The latest British census shows the country's increasingly secular tilt
BRITAIN continues its descent into godlessness, according to the latest 2011 Census data. Just over a quarter of people in England and Wales (figures for Northern Ireland and Scotland are collected separately) say they have no religion, up from 14.8% a decade earlier. The proportion of Christians has fallen from 71.8% to 59.3%. All other main faiths have edged up, and Muslims now account for 4.8% of the population, compared with 3% in 2001. What of less common creeds? About a quarter of a million people ticked the “Other religion” write-in box. Among them, 56,620 wrote Pagan, while Agnostics and Atheists claimed around 30,000 adherents apiece. Rastafarianism, Zoroastrianism and Shamanism made the list, while the most common was Jedi Knight, by 176,632 Star Wars fans. Back in Britain, London brakes the trend a bit. Among the handful of places in the country where the actual number of Christians increased over the decade, four were London boroughs.
Read more on the Census here.
BRITAIN continues its descent into godlessness, according to the latest 2011 Census data. Just over a quarter of people in England and Wales (figures for Northern Ireland and Scotland are collected separately) say they have no religion, up from 14.8% a decade earlier. The proportion of Christians has fallen from 71.8% to 59.3%. All other main faiths have edged up, and Muslims now account for 4.8% of the population, compared with 3% in 2001. What of less common creeds? About a quarter of a million people ticked the “Other religion” write-in box. Among them, 56,620 wrote Pagan, while Agnostics and Atheists claimed around 30,000 adherents apiece. Rastafarianism, Zoroastrianism and Shamanism made the list, while the most common was Jedi Knight, by 176,632 Star Wars fans. Back in Britain, London brakes the trend a bit. Among the handful of places in the country where the actual number of Christians increased over the decade, four were London boroughs.
Read more on the Census here.
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