FOI request (FOIR-775696275)

Demographic makeup of the Council's workforce

Requested Sun 21 December 2025
Responded Tue 17 February 2026

As someone who completed studying GCSEs and A-Levels in subjects like Geography, History, PSHCE, Religious Studies, and Mathematics, I really enjoy learning about demography and data. Since our nation had our 2021 Census a few years ago, I just wanted to ask if you could similarly provide me with the general demographic makeup of the employees working at the Council as of the latest available year data. In particular, just like the whole UK government data as organised by the Office for National Statistics, I am looking for the population numbers of 2025, or the latest available year, such as:

1. Racial groups as the UK government classifies:

a. British (including English, Scottish, Welsh, and Cornish)

b. White - Irish

c. Asian - Indian

d. Asian - Pakistani

e. Asian - Bangladeshi

f. Asian - Chinese

. . . and the other non-national ethnic groups (like Africans, Arabs, other Asian, other White, Caribbean, Mixed race, and so on).

2. Religious identities, in particular the number of:

a. Christians

b. Muslims

c, Hindus

d. Buddhists

e. Sikhs

f. Jews

. . . non-religious and other religion populations.

3. The total number of employees working for the Council, the percentage share of genders, and the percentage of staff that have British citizenship?

4. If any, what percentage of staff live in Greater London (the 32 London Boroughs and the City of London)?

5. What percentage of the workforce have GCSE, A-Level, and Degree-level qualifications?

6. The number of staff members who can speak the World's 10-most spoken languages (besides English) if that is recorded, namely:

a. Chinese

b. Hindi

c. Spanish

d. French

e. Arabic

f. Bengali

g. Russian

h. Portuguese

i. Urdu

It will be helpful if I can be able to get an idea of the general demographic data of the Council as a whole for its workforce for the latest available year. Of course, I do not intend to ask for any personal details of anyone specifically in particular at all but rather get an overall picture of the Council's population through percentages or numbers (as suitable), so it will be helpful if you can help me find out. Even if all of these categories are not known or available, I would appreciate as many of them as you're able to help me out with, andd just wanted to suggest that a PDF file or spreadsheet for the response would be great if possible as it is about data sets and makes it easy to organise and read compared to inline on the email itself.

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Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

1. Racial groups (%)

African - 0.3

Caribbean - 0.3

Indian - 0.3

White Irish - 0.9

Other Asian - 0.3

Other African/Caribbean background - 0.3

Other White - 1.2

White and Asian - 0.3

White British - 38.0

Prefer not to say/None - 58.5

2. Religious identities (%)

Agnostic - 1.2

Atheist - 6.3

Buddhist- 0.3

Christian - 9.0

Christian Protestant - 1.8

Christian Roman Catholic - 4.2

Muslim - 0.3

Taoism - 0.3

Prefer not to say/None - 76.6

3. Female 52%, Male 48%, British Citizenship 97%

4. Information not currently available.

5. Information not currently held.

6. Information not held.