Data Behind the Videos

All statistics used across the @mumsbalance race and wealth series. Sources linked for transparency.


1. Wage Gap: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Wages

Lowest average wage per hour

Pakistani and Bangladeshi workers have had the lowest average hourly pay of any ethnic group every year for a decade.

Data Point Source
Lowest earnings every year for a decade ONS Ethnicity Facts and Figures — Average Hourly Pay

2. How Did Pakistanis Buy Their Homes?

How did Pakistanis buy their homes

How Pakistanis in Sheffield bought their homes and built community wealth through collective and informal means.

Data Point Source
How Pakistanis in Sheffield bought their homes Housing Studies Association — Home Ownership and the Power of the Collective

3. High Home Ownership, Falling Wealth

Why is the wealth gap increasing despite home ownership being high

Despite relatively high home ownership rates, Pakistani households are still among the poorest in the UK. Between 2019 and 2020, half of Pakistanis were living in poverty. Pakistani families are concentrated in a handful of cities and British median wealth is rising while theirs is not.

Data Point Source
Between 2019 and 2020, half of Pakistanis were living in poverty JRF — Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani Households at Higher Risk of Very Deep Poverty
Pakistanis distributed across a handful of cities ThePenPK — Pakistani Diaspora in UK: 2021 Census Overview
Birmingham Pakistani community profile Birmingham City Observatory — Pakistani Community Profile
British median wealth went up ONS — Total Wealth in Great Britain: April 2020 to March 2022

4. High Home Ownership, Wrong Type of Home

Why is the wealth gap increasing despite home ownership being high — home type