Demography of Slough
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.Ethnicity
The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 censuses in Slough.
Notes for table aboveLanguages
The most common main languages spoken in Slough according to the 2011 UK Census are shown below.
| Rank | Language | Usual residents aged 3+ | Proportion |
| 1 | English | 96,508 | 72.90% |
| 2 | Polish | 8,249 | 6.23% |
| 3 | Punjabi | 8,247 | 6.23% |
| 4 | Urdu | 6,568 | 4.96% |
| 5 | Somali | 938 | 0.71% |
| 6 | Tamil | 860 | 0.65% |
| 7 | Hindi | 825 | 0.62% |
| 8 | Arabic | 703 | 0.53% |
| 9 | Gujarati | 534 | 0.40% |
| 10 | Tagalog/Filipino | 484 | 0.37% |
| 11 | Shona | 434 | 0.33% |
| 12 | Italian | 412 | 0.31% |
| 13 | Pashto | 412 | 0.31% |
| 14 | Romanian | 401 | 0.30% |
| 15 | French | 395 | 0.30% |
| 16 | Swahili/Kiswahili | 393 | 0.30% |
| 17 | Persian | 382 | 0.29% |
| 18 | Portuguese | 373 | 0.28% |
| 19 | Spanish | 297 | 0.22% |
| 20 | Bengali | 287 | 0.22% |
| Other | 4,682 | 3.54% |
Religion
The following table shows the religion of respondents in the 2001 and 2011 censuses in Slough.
