South west region
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Population
5,701,186 people live in the south west region.
Age
- 0-19: 21.4%
- 20-64: 56.3%
- 65+: 22.3%
Sex
- 48.9% are male
- 51.1% are female
Legal partnership status
- Single: 34.7%
- Married: 46.3%
- In a registered civil partnership: 0.2%
- Separated: 2.1%
- Divorced or civil partnership dissolved: 10.1%
- Widowed or surviving civil partnership: 6.6%
Disability under Equality Act
- 81.4% not considered disabled
- 18.6% considered disabled
Ethnic group
- English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, British: 87.8%
- Other White: 4.5%
- Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: 2.8%
- Mixed or multiple ethnic groups: 2%
- Irish: 0.6%
- Other ethnic group: 0.9%
- Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean, African: 1.2%
- Roma: 0.1%
- Gypsy or Irish traveller: 0.1%
Religion
- No religion: 44.1%
- Christian: 46.2%
- Not answered: 6.5%
- Muslim: 1.4%
- Hindu: 0.5%
- Buddhist: 0.4%
- Other religion: 0.6%
- Jewish: 0.1%
- Sikh: 0.1%