like many former mill towns, huddersfield has a higher than average number of residents from ethnic minorities. the white population makes up 81% of the population comparing to 91.3% for england as a whole (2001). the largest ethnic minority group are those who have described themselves as being asian or british asian originating from the indian sub-continent (india, pakistan, bangladesh and sri lanka) with 10,837, or 8.9% (compared to 7.8% for england as a whole (2011). an ethnicity summary of the town's 121,620 population is 98,454 (81.0%) white, 15,072 (12.4%) asian or british asian, 4,328 (3.6%) black or black british, 328 (0.3%), 259 (0.2%) other and 3,131 (2.6%) mixed. in 2011, huddersfield had a population of 162,949 and was 75.8% white (which includes people from ireland, mainland europe and other places), 72.1% white british (or 117,548 people), 14.9% asian (24,201 people) and 4.2% black (6,822 people).