Foleshill Demographics (Coventry, England)

Foleshill is a ward in Coventry of West Midlands, England and includes areas of Little Heath, Godiva Trading Estate, Binley Colliery Village, Binley Woods, Binley Industrial Estate, Binley, Market End, Harnall, Bishopgate Green, Paradise, Edgwick, Parting Of The Heaths, Great Heath, Four Lanes End, Radford, Newdigate Colliery and Hillfields.

In the 2011 census the population of Foleshill was 19,943 and is made up of approximately 50% females and 50% males.

The average age of people in Foleshill is 30, while the median age is lower at 28.

55.0% of people living in Foleshill were born in England. Other top answers for country of birth were 10.1% India, 8.9% Pakistan, 1.6% Bangladesh, 1.6% Somalia, 1.1% Zimbabwe, 1.1% North Africa, 1.0% Kenya, 0.8% Ireland, 0.8% Scotland.

62.7% of people living in Foleshill speak English. The other top languages spoken are 7.5% Panjabi, 6.1% Urdu, 3.3% Gujarati, 2.7% Polish, 1.8% Kurdish, 1.7% Bengali, 1.5% Arabic, 1.3% Somali, 1.1% Persian/Farsi.

The religious make up of Foleshill is 38.6% Muslim, 26.8% Christian, 11.5% No religion, 8.7% Sikh, 6.3% Hindu, 0.3% Buddhist. 1,358 people did not state a religion. 27 people identified as a Jedi Knight.

39.5% of people are married, 6.5% cohabit with a member of the opposite sex, 0.7% live with a partner of the same sex, 33.1% are single and have never married or been in a registered same sex partnership, 10.3% are separated or divorced. There are 899 widowed people living in Foleshill.

The top occupations listed by people in Foleshill are Elementary 25.1%, Elementary administration and service 20.7%, Process, plant and machine operatives 14.7%, Sales and customer service 12.3%, Caring, leisure and other service 10.1%, Sales 9.0%, Professional 8.9%, Skilled trades 8.5%, Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives 8.2%, Administrative and secretarial 8.1%.