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FOI request (FOIR-775696275)
👫 Demographic makeup of the Council's workforce
Requested Sun 21 December 2025
Responded Tue 17 February 2026Good Morning Hastings Borough Council,
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As someone who completed studying GCSEs & A-Levels in subjects like Geography, History, PSHCE, Religious Studies & Mathematics, I really enjoy learning about Demography and data.
Since our nation had our 2021 Census a few years ago that I took part in, 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 govt. 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 govt. classifies:
๐ฌ๐ง White - British (including English, Scottish, Welsh & Cornish)
๐ฎ๐ช White - Irish
๐ฎ๐ณ Asian - Indian
๐ต๐ฐ Asian - Pakistani
๐ง๐ฉ Asian - Bangladeshi
๐จ๐ณ Asian - Chinese
...and the other non-national ethnic groups (like Africans, Arabs, other Asian, other White, Caribbean, Mixed race, etc.)
2) Religious identities, in particular the number of:
โ๏ธ Christians †
โช๏ธ Muslims โช๏ธ
๐๏ธ Hindus เฅ
โธ๏ธ Buddhists โธ๏ธ
๐ชฏ Sikhs โฌ
โก๏ธ Jews โก๏ธ
...non-religious & other religion populations.
3) The total number of employees working for the Council, the % percentage share of genders & the % percentage of staff that have British citizenship?
4) If any, what % percentage of staff live in Greater London (the 32 London Boroughs & the City of London)?
5) What % percentage of the workforce have GCSE, A-Level & 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 by chance, namely:
Chinese (ๆผข่ช)
Hindi (เคนเคฟเคจเฅเคฆเฅ)
Spanish
French
Arabic (ุงูููุนูุฑูุจููููุฉู)
Bengali (เฆฌเฆพเฆเฆฒเฆพ)
Russian (ััััะบะธะน)
Portuguese
Urdu (ุงูุฑูุฏููู)
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 don't 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 aren't known or available, I would appreciate as many of them as you're able to help me out with…and just wanted to suggest that a PDF file or spreadsheet for the response would be great if possible as it's about data sets & makes it easy to organise & read compared to inline on the email itself...thanks :)
Response
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.
- 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 1.2Atheist 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) The total number of employees working for the Council, the % percentage share of genders & the % percentage of staff that have British citizenship?
4) If any, what % percentage of staff live in Greater London (the 32 London Boroughs & the City of London)?
5) What % percentage of the workforce have GCSE, A-Level & Degree-level qualifications?Answer: Information not currently held
6) the number of staff members who can speak the World's 10-most spoken languages (besides English) if that is recorded by chance, namely:Answer: Information not held
- Racial groups (%)
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