Cambridge versus Oxford Jews
Nights are still getting longer and weather is getting colder. Which is exactly why the Office for National Statistics in England and Wales chose to release the 2021 Census data on religion and ethnicity. To keep us on fire with excitement. Census data are exciting (said nobody ever), but bear with me. You can do all sorts with the Census data. Cambridge versus Oxford Jewish race, for example.
Have you not always wondered which one, Cambridge or Oxford, has more Jews? So here is the end of that mystery. It is Oxford. Oxford has slightly (very slightly!) more Jews than Cambridge. Just above 2,000 people in the City of Oxford and the surrounding districts of Oxfordshire ticked the ‘Jewish’ box in the 2021 Census (2,117). Just under 2,000 people identified as Jews by religion in the City of Cambridge and the surrounding districts of Cambridgeshire (1,978). Just under 1,000 Jews in each place identified as Jews by ethnicity, but-from the experience of...