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{{Infobox place demographics|place=[[Slough]]|caption=Population pyramid of Slough|image_size=350|size_of_population=149,400 (2016 estimate)|image=File:Slough population pyramid.svg}}[[File:Population Density Slough 2011 census.png|thumb|300px|Population density in the 2011 census in Slough.]]
This article is intended to give an overview of the '''demography of Slough'''. In 2016, Slough had a population of 149,000 people.
[[File:Slough's industry sectors over time.svg|thumb|290x290px|Industry sectors of Slough over time]]

==Population==
The modern [[town]] of [[Slough]] grew from the [[parish]] of [[Upton-cum-Chalvey]], [[Buckinghamshire]], [[England]]. The populations given below are for the successive institutional areas of the principal local government level that could be recognised as Slough, now in [[Berkshire]].

{| class = "wikitable"
!  Year
!  Population
!  Notes
|-
| align="center" | 1801 || align="center" | 1,018<ref name = "Maxwell Fraser">p 153, ''The History of Slough'', Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973</ref> || Parish of [[Upton-cum-Chalvey]]
|-
| align="center" | 1811 || align="center" | 1,083<ref name = "Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1821 || align="center" | 1,268<ref name = "Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1831 || align="center" | 1,502<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1841 || align="center" | 2,296<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1851 || align="center" | 3,573<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1861 || align="center" | 4,688<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1871 || align="center" | 5,940<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1881 || align="center" | 7,030<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1891 || align="center" | 7,700<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1901 || align="center" | 11,453<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || Slough [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|Urban District]] from 1894; area enlarged in 1900<ref name="ReferenceA">p 151, ''The History of Slough'', Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973</ref>
|-
| align="center" | 1911 || align="center" | 14,982<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1921 || align="center" | 16,392<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1931 || align="center" | 33,612<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || area enlarged in 1930/1931<ref name="ReferenceA"/> 
|-
| align="center" | 1939 || align="center" | 50,620<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || estimate (1941 census not taken due to [[World War II]]):[[Municipal Borough]] from 1938
|-
| align="center" | 1951 || align="center" | 66,471<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1961 || align="center" | 80,781<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1971 || align="center" | 87,075<ref name="Maxwell Fraser"/> || 
|-
| align="center" | 1981 || align="center" | 96,512<ref name="eustatistics">[https://www.eustatistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/xsdataset.asp?More=Y Office for National Statistics, downloaded 31 December 2006]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> || Borough of Slough in [[Berkshire]] and area enlarged from 1974
|-
| align="center" | 1991 || align="center" | 101,066<ref name="eustatistics" /> || 
|-
| align="center" | 2001 || align="center" | 119,070<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10032751&c_id=10001043&add=N A Vision of Britain (Accessed 31 December 2006)]</ref> || Area enlarged in 1995: [[Unitary Authority]] from 1998
|-
| align="center" | 2011 || align="center" | 140,200<ref>[http://www.slough.gov.uk/council/key-statistics-and-data/census.aspx (Accessed 29 November 2013)]</ref> || Up 16.3% on the 2001 census, and 6.9% higher than the previous mid-2010 population estimate
|-
|align="center" | 2016 || align="center" | 149,400 || ONS - based on 2012 population trends
|}

==Ethnicity==
[[File:Ethnic demographics of Slough over time from 1971 to 2021.gif|thumb|Ethnic demographics of Slough over time from 1971 to 2021]]
[[File:Ethnic makeup of Slough by single year ages in 2021.svg|thumb|Ethnic makeup of Slough by single year ages in 2021]]
[[File:Population pyramid of Slough by ethnicity in 2021.svg|thumb|Population pyramid of Slough by ethnicity in 2021]]
The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 1991, 2001 and 2011 censuses in Slough. Slough is a majority-minority town, with no ethnic group or broad multi-ethnic group being the majority, having been this way since the late 2000s. The [[White British]] make up the largest group at 34.5% of the population, having declined from a majority status of 58.3% in 2001, this decline coincides with the overall decline of [[White people in the United Kingdom|White residents]] in the town from nearly two thirds in 1991 (72.3%) to less the majority (45.7%) in 2011. In conjunction, [[British Asian|Asian British]] people have risen from nearly a quarter of the town's population in 1991 (23.9%) to nearly 40% in 2011, the largest of which is [[British Pakistanis]] who surpassed [[British Indians]] in 2011 as the largest Asian group. [[Black British people|Black British]] residents have also increased, with the majority of growth coming from Black Africans who have increased from 0.4% in 1991 to 5.4% in 2011, of which surpassed the Black Caribbean group, who was 2.2% of the population, in 2011 as well.

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Ethnic Group
! colspan="2" |1971 estimations<ref>{{Citation |last=Masom |first=Grant |title=Where We Live Now: A Twentieth-Century Industrial Town |date=2020 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48095-0_2 |work=Local Churches in New Urban Britain, 1890-1975: “The Greatest Challenge”? |pages=37–71 |editor-last=Masom |editor-first=Grant |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-48095-0_2 |isbn=978-3-030-48095-0 |s2cid=226649228 |access-date=2023-01-10|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1981 estimations<ref name=":03">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/ethnicityin1991c0000unse |title=Ethnicity in the 1991 census: Vol 3 - Social geography and ethnicity in Britain, geographical spread, spatial concentration and internal migration |date=1996 |publisher=London : HMSO |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-11-691655-6}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1991 census<ref name=":04">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/ethnicityin1991c0000unse |title=Ethnicity in the 1991 census: Vol 3 - Social geography and ethnicity in Britain, geographical spread, spatial concentration and internal migration |date=1996 |publisher=London : HMSO |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-11-691655-6}}</ref><ref name=":412">Data is taken from United Kingdom [http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/index.htm Casweb Data services] of the United Kingdom [http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/step1.cfm 1991 Census on Ethnic Data for England, Scotland and Wales] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405213012/http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/step1.cfm |date=5 April 2022 }} (Table 6)</ref>
!colspan="2"|2001 census<ref>{{cite web |title=Office of National Statistics; 2001 Census Key Statistics |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/local-authorities-ks06--ethnic-group.xls |access-date=2021-09-07 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref>
!colspan="2"|2011 census<ref name=":36">{{Cite web |title=2011 Census: Ethnic Group, local authorities in England and Wales |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/rft-table-ks201ew.xls |access-date=2021-12-15 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2021 census<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ethnic group - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS021/editions/2021/versions/1/filter-outputs/d2f0a39a-75b6-4995-b4bd-a5b68ff79027#get-data |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}</ref>
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
![[White people in the United Kingdom|White]]: Total
!78,367
!90%
!71,908
!77.2%
!73,749
!72%
!75,843
!63.70%
!64,053
!45.69%
!57,134
!35.9%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[White British|British]]
| –
| –
|–
|–
| –
| –|| 69,441 || 58.32% || 48,401 || 34.52%
|38,101
|24.0%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[White Irish|Irish]]
| –
| –
|–
|–
|3,241
|3.2%|| 2,489 || 2.09% || 1,607 || 1.15%
|1143
|0.7%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[White Gypsy or Irish Traveller|Gypsy or Irish Traveller]]<ref group="note">New category created for the 2011 census</ref>
| –
| –
|–
|–
| –
| –|| –|| –|| 220 || 0.16%
|237
|0.1%
|-
|White: Roma
| –
| –
|–
|–
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
|357
|0.2%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | White: [[Other White|Other]]
| –
| –
|–
|–
| –
| –|| 3,913 || 3.29% || 13,825 || 9.86%
|17,296
|10.9%
|-
![[British Asian|Asian or Asian British]]: Total
!–
!–
!17,186
!18.4%
!23,661
!23.1%
!33,621
!28.24%
!55,697
!39.73%
!74,093
!46.9%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Indians|Indian]]
| –
| –
|9900
|
|12941
| || 16,719 || 14.04% || 21,922 || 15.64%
|30,209
|19.1%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Pakistanis|Pakistani]]
| –
| –
|6399
|
|9428
| || 14,360 || 12.06% || 24,869 || 17.74%
|34,317
|21.7%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Bangladeshis|Bangladeshi]]
| –
| –
|39
|
|101
| || 171 || 0.14% || 549 || 0.39%
|910
|0.6%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: [[British Chinese|Chinese]]<ref group="note">In 2001, listed under the 'Chinese or other ethnic group' heading.</ref>
| –
| –
|205
|
|266
| || 349 || 0.29% || 797 || 0.57%
|594
|0.4%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 
| –
| –
|643
|
|925
| || 2,022 || 1.70% || 7,560 || 5.39%
|8,063
|5.1%
|-
![[Black British people|Black or Black British]]: Total
!–
!–
!3,253
!
!3,891
!
!6,026
!5.06%
!12,115
!8.64%
!11,992
!7.5%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: [[British African-Caribbean people|Caribbean]]
| –
| –
|2361
|
|2788
| || 3,470 || 2.91% || 3,096 || 2.21%
|2,771
|1.7%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: [[Black British people|African]]
| –
| –
|376
|
|429
| || 2,275 || 1.91% || 7,548 || 5.38%
|7,815
|4.9%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Black or Black British: [[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom|Other Black]]
| –
| –
|516
|
|674
| || 281 || 0.24% || 1,471 || 1.05%
|1,406
|0.9%
|-
![[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed]]: Total
!–
!–
!–
!–
!–
!–
!2,778
!2.33%
!4,758
!3.39%
!6,311
!4%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Black Caribbean 
| –
| –
|–
|–
| –
| –|| 1,116 || 0.94% || 1,667 || 1.19%
|1,854
|1.2%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Black African 
| –
| –
|–
|–
| –
| –|| 224 || 0.19% || 607 || 0.43%
|824
|0.5%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: White and Asian 
| –
| –
|–
|–
| –
| –|| 845 || 0.71% || 1,429 || 1.02%
|1,945
|1.2%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Mixed: Other Mixed 
| –
| –
|–
|–
| –
| –|| 593 || 0.50% || 1,055 || 0.75%
|1,688
|1.1%
|-
!Other: Total
!–
!–
!821
!
!1,099
!
!799
!0.67%
!3,582
!2.55%
!8,970
!5.7%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Other: Arab<ref group="note">New category created for the 2011 census</ref>
| –
| –
|–
|–
| –
| –||   –||   –|| 928 || 0.66%
|1,826
|1.2%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | Other: Any other ethnic group 
| –
| –
|–
|–
|–
|–|| 799 || 0.67% || 2,654 || 1.89%
|7,144
|4.5%
|-
!Ethnic minority
!8,708
!10%
!21,260
!22.8%
!28,651
!28%
!43,224
!36.3%
!76,152
!54.3%
!101,366
!64.1%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
!Total
!87,075
!100%
!93,168 
!100%
!102,400
!100%
!119,067
!100%
!140,205
!100%
!158,500
!100%
|}

'''Notes for table above'''
<references group="note"/>

{{Gallery
|title=Distribution of ethnic groups in Slough according to the 2011 census.
|width=225 | height=225
|align=center
|File:White Slough 2011 census.png|White
|File:British Slough 2011 census.png|White-British
|File:Irish Slough 2011 census.png|White-Irish
|File:White other Slough 2011 census.png|White-Other
|File:Asian Slough 2011 census.png|Asian
|File:Indian Slough 2011 census.png|Asian-Indian
|File:Pakistani Slough 2011 census.png|Asian-Pakistani
|File:Bangladeshi Slough 2011 census.png|Asian-Bangladeshi
|File:Chinese Slough 2011 census.png|Asian-Chinese
|File:Black Slough 2011 census.png|Black
|File:African Slough 2011 census.png|Black-African
|File:Caribbean Slough 2011 census.png|Black-Caribbean
|File:Arab Slough 2011 census.png|Other-Arab
}}

=== Ethnicity of school pupils ===

Since statistics on the ethnicity of school pupils have been collected, [[White people in the United Kingdom|White]] students, the majority being the native [[White British]], have been in the minority. As such Slough schools were in a [[Majority minority|majority-minority]] state in-till 2018 when [[British Asian|Asian British]] pupils became the majority, of which had surpassed White students in the mid-2000s. In the [[British Asian|Asian British]] multi-ethnic group, [[British Pakistanis]] are the largest at 25.8% and are the largest group of all groups in the town. Black British school pupils increased in proportional size between 2004 and 2012 peaking at 9.1%, but have declined since then to 7.2% in 2022. Mixed school pupils have also been in proportional increase and now make up a little over 1 in 10 in schools (11.3%) from 5.9% in 2004.
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="3" |Ethnic group
! colspan="12" |School year<ref>{{Cite web |title=School and pupil characteristics |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104055718/http://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics?page=1 |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Schools, pupils and their characteristics, Academic Year 2021/22 |url=https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref>
|-
! colspan="2" |2004
! colspan="2" |2008
! colspan="2" |2012
! colspan="2" |2015/16
! colspan="2" |2019/20
! colspan="2" |2021/2022
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
![[White people in the United Kingdom|White]]: Total
!7,670
!44.3%
!7,110
!37.9%
!6,820
!32.4%
!7,218
!29.5%
!8,422
!25.8%
!7,860
!23.3%
|-
|White: [[White British|British]]
|6,940
|40%
|5,154
|27.5%
|4,581
|21.8%
|4,308
|17.3%
|4,453
|13.6%
|4,084
|12.1%
|-
|White: [[White Irish|Irish]]
|200
|
|158
|
|148
|
|114
|0.5%
|110
|0.3%
|81
|0.2%
|-
|White: Traveller of Irish heritage
|10
|
|25
|
|29
|
|34
|0.0%
|25
|0.1%
|22
|0.1%
|-
|White: Gypsy/Roma
|70
|
|54
|
|110
|
|158
|0.6%
|244
|0.7%
|240
|0.7%
|-
|White: [[Other White|Other]]
|470
|
|1,719
|
|1,951
|
|2,762
|11.1%
|3,610
|11.1%
|3,433
|10.2%
|-
![[British Asian|Asian / Asian British]]: Total
!7,040
!40.6%
!8,360
!44.6%
!9,785
!46.5%
!12,108
!48.6%
!16,769
!51.4%
!17,725
!52.4%
|-
|Asian / Asian British: [[British Indians|Indian]]
|2,830
|16.3%
|3,287
|17.5%
|3,758
|20.0%
|4,486
|18.0%
|6,565
|20.1%
|7,262
|21.5%
|-
|Asian / Asian British: [[British Pakistanis|Pakistani]]
|3,620
|20.9%
|4,164
|22.2%
|4,923
|23.4%
|6,191
|24.8%
|8,420
|25.8%
|8,687
|25.8%
|-
|Asian / Asian British: [[British Bangladeshis|Bangladeshi]]
|60
|
|92
|
|116
|
|149
|0.6%
|261
|0.8%
|256
|0.8%
|-
|Asian / Asian British: [[British Chinese|Chinese]]
|60
|
|63
|
|60
|
|46
|0.2%
|49
|0.2%
|97
|0.1%
|-
|Asian / Asian British: Other Asians
|470
|
|754
|
|926
|
|1,236
|5.0%
|1,474
|4.5%
|1,423
|4.2%
|-
![[Black British people|Black / Black British]]: Total
!1,100
!6.4%
!1,580
!8.4%
!1,925
!9.1%
!2,150
!8.5%
!2,454
!7.5%
!2,417
!7.2%
|-
|Black: [[British African-Caribbean people|Caribbean]]
|340
|
|362
|
|357
|
|332
|1.3%
|343
|1.1%
|339
|1.0%
|-
|Black: [[Black British people|African]]
|660
|3.8%
|1,133
|6.0%
|1,454
|6.9%
|1,658
|6.6%
|1,899
|5.8%
|1,847
|5.5%
|-
|Black: [[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom|Other Blacks]]
|110
|
|91
|
|116
|
|160
|0.6%
|212
|0.6%
|231
|0.7%
|-
![[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed / British Mixed]]
!1,030
!5.9%
!1,190
!6.3%
!1,690
!8%
!2,125
!8.5%
!3,188
!9.8%
!3,817
!11.3%
|-
!Other: Total
!290
!1.7%
!391
!2.1%
!655
!3.1%
!911
!3.7%
!1,261
!3.9%
!1,349
!4.0%
|-
!Unclassified
!190
!1.1%
!37
!-
!173
!0.8%
!270
!1.1%
!551
!1.7%
!590
!1.7%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
!Total:
!17,320
!100%
!18,750
!100%
!21,050
!100%
!24,941
!100%
!32,665
!100%
!33,720
!100%
|}

== Country of birth ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Top Countries of Birth - [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011]] and [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/QS203EW/view/1946157286?rows=cell&cols=rural_urban | title=Data Viewer - Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/filters/aa0765dc-7d47-4d84-85f6-bdc7d99b9227/dimensions | title=Custom dataset - Office for National Statistics }}</ref>
!Country of birth
!2011 number
!2021 number
|-
|{{ENG}}
|83,230
|87,350
|-
|{{IND}}
|11,544
|17,107
|-
|{{PAK}}
|11,244
|14,418
|-
|{{POL}}
|8,341
|8,912
|-
|{{ROM}}
|467
|3,551
|-
|{{KEN}}
|2,183
|1,940
|-
|{{SRI}}
|1,219
|1,385
|-
|{{SOM}}
|1,247
|1,336
|-
|{{ITA}}
|621
|1,125
|-
|{{PHI}}
|828
|1,064
|}
<gallery caption="Population pyramids of country of birth groups in Slough">
File:Slough UK born population pyramid in 2021.svg|UK born
File:Slough foreign born population pyramid in 2021.svg|Foreign born: Total
</gallery>[[File:UK born and foreign born in Slough in 2021.svg|thumb|UK born and foreign born in Slough in 2021. Males and females representing the UK born population while foreign males and females representing the foreign born population.]]

==Languages==
Top 10 main languages spoken in Slough according to [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011 census]] and [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 census]] are shown below.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/qs204ew |title=Download:local authorities: county / unitary |publisher=NOMIS |accessdate=17 June 2015}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
! rowspan="2" |Rank
! rowspan="2" |Language
!2011
!2021
|-
! Usual residents aged 3+ 
!Usual residents aged 3+
|-
| 1 || style="text-align:left" | [[English language|English]]|| 96,508 
|110,212
|-
| 2 || style="text-align:left" | [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] || 8,247 
|9,527
|-
| 3 || style="text-align:left" | [[Polish language|Polish]]|| 8,249 
|7,724
|-
| 4 || style="text-align:left" | [[Urdu language|Urdu]]|| 6,568 
|6,497
|-
| 5 || style="text-align:left" | [[Romanian language|Romanian]]|| 401 
|3,275
|-
| 6 || style="text-align:left" | [[Tamil language|Tamil]]|| 860 
|1,224
|-
| 7 || style="text-align:left" | [[Hindi language|Hindi]]|| 825 
|1,148
|-
| 8 || style="text-align:left" | [[Telugu language|Telugu]]|| 275 
|1,066
|-
| 9 || style="text-align:left" | [[Arabic language|Arabic]]|| 703 
|983
|-
| 10 || style="text-align:left" | [[Somali language|Somali]]|| 938 
|772
|}

==Religion==
[[File:Religious makeup of Slough by single year age groups in 2021.svg|thumb|Religious makeup of Slough by single year age groups in 2021]]
The following table shows the religion of respondents in the 2001, 2011 and 2021 censuses<ref>{{Cite web |title=Religion, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/religion/bulletins/religionenglandandwales/census2021 |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}</ref> in Slough. With Slough having one of the highest [[British Asian]] communities in Britain, the [[British Muslim]], [[British hindus|British Hindus]] and Sikh communities are all overrepresented compared to the national average.

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Religion
!colspan="2"|2001<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/components/stdListComponent.asp?menuopt=12&subcomp=100 |title=2001 census - theme tables |accessdate=17 June 2015}}</ref>
!colspan="2"|2011<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/qs208ew |title=Download:local authorities: county / unitary |publisher=NOMIS |accessdate=17 June 2015}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2021<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/ |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}</ref>
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Christian || 63,993 || 53.75% || 57,726 || 41.17%
|50,664 
|31.96%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Buddhist || 294 || 0.25% || 743 || 0.53%
|776 
|0.5%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Hindu || 5,340 || 4.48% || 8,643 || 6.16%
|12,343 
|7.79%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Jewish || 139 || 0.12% || 87 || 0.06%
|85 
|0.1%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Muslim || 15,897 || 13.35% || 32,655 || 23.29%
|46,661 
|29.44%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Sikh || 10,820 || 9.09% || 14,889 || 10.62%
|17,985 
|11.35%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Any Other religion || 358 || 0.30% || 482 || 0.34%
|716 
|0.5%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | No religion || 13,061 || 10.97% || 17,024 || 12.14%
|20,726 
|13.08%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Religion not stated || 9,165 || 7.70% || 7,956 || 5.67%
|8,544 
|5.39%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''Total''' || '''119,067''' || '''100.00%''' || '''140,205''' || '''100.00%'''
|'''158,500'''
|'''100.00%'''
|}

{{Gallery
|title=Distribution of religions in Slough according to the 2011 census.
|width=225 | height=225
|align=center
|File:Christianity Slough 2011 census.png|Christianity
|File:Islam Slough 2011 census.png|Islam
|File:Judaism Slough 2011 census.png|Judaism
|File:Hinduism Slough 2011 census.png|Hinduism
|File:Sikhism Slough 2011 census.png|Sikhism
|File:Buddhism Slough 2011 census.png|Buddhism
|File:Other Religion Slough 2011 census.png|Other religion
|File:Noreligion Slough 2011 census.png|No religion
}}

==See also==
{{Portal|England}}
*[[Demographics of the United Kingdom]]
*[[Demographics of England]]
*[[Demographics of London]]
*[[Demographics of Birmingham]]
*[[Demographics of Greater Manchester]]
*[[List of English cities by population]]
*[[List of English districts by population]]
*[[List of English districts and their ethnic composition]]
*[[List of English districts by area]]
*[[List of English districts by population density]]

==References==
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{{Berkshire}}

[[Category:Slough]]
[[Category:Demographics of England|Slough]]
[[Category:Demographics by city in the United Kingdom|Slough]]