NHS England — South East » Demographic profile of the South East of England

In the South East, there are just over 270,000 women aged 25 to 30.
The greatest concentration of people this age is in and around Brighton and Hove, as well as Southampton.

The majority of the population in the South East, 94.2%, identify as the gender assigned at birth.
A small percentage, 0.2%, do not identify as the gender they were assigned at birth.
The remainder did not answer the question.

The majority of people aged 25 to 34 in the South East, 87.9%, identify as heterosexual or straight.
A smaller percentage, 2.4%, identify as gay or lesbian.
Additionally, 0.7% identify as bisexual, and 0.7% identify with other sexual orientations.
The remainder did not answer the question.

The South East has the lowest proportion of disabled people in England, with 16.1% (1.5 million individuals) reporting disabilities.

The South East is home to a diverse range of nationalities, with the top ten countries of birth outside of the UK being India, Poland, South Africa, Germany, Pakistan, Ireland, Italy, Canada, China, and Australia.

English is the primary language spoken by 98.8% of the population in the South East.
A minority of 0.9% reported having poor English language skills, and 0.2% do not speak English at all.
Additionally, a variety of languages other than English are spoken in the region, including Polish, Romanian, Portuguese, Nepalese, Punjabi, Spanish, Urdu, Italian, Tamil, Hungarian, Arabic, Bulgarian, other Chinese, French, Russian, Lithuanian, Bengali, Tagalog or Filipino, Malayalam, Turkish, Greek, Hindi, German, Gujarati, Cantonese, Persian or Farsi, Telugu, Slovak and Albanian.

The population of the South East is predominantly white, with 83.8% of residents identifying as such.
Non-white minorities make up the remaining 16.2%, with 6% identifying as Asian, 2.6% as Black, 3.2% as Mixed, and 1.8% as Other.

Christianity is the largest religious group in the South East, with 46.5% of the population identifying as Christian.
Other religious groups include Muslim (3.3%), Hinduism (1.7%), Sikhism (0.8%), Buddhism (0.6%), Judaism (0.2%), and a significant proportion (40.2%) identifying as having no religion

8% of the population in the South East hold qualifications at level 4 (for example, certificate of higher education or higher apprenticeship) or above.
4% of the adult population have no formal qualifications.

The South East boasts a diverse economy, with the health industry accounting for 13.9% of jobs in the region.
Other significant employment sectors include wholesale and retail trade including repair of motor vehicles and motor cycles (13.9%) and education (10.2%).
There were just over 224,000 people who were unemployed (3.9% of the population aged 16 years and over) at the last Census

48% of households in the South East are deprived in at least one dimension. Households are considered to be deprived if they meet one or more of the following four dimensions of deprivation:
- employment: if any member, not a full-time student, is either unemployed, or economically inactive due to long-term sickness or disability
- education: if no one has at least level 2 education and no one aged 16 to 18 years is a full-time student
- health and disability: any person in the household has general health that is “bad” or “very bad” or is identified as disabled
- housing: the household’s accommodation is either overcrowded, or is in a shared dwelling, or has no central heating

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