Table 2.6. Percentage of West Midlands households with no central heating and those that are overcrowded, by ethnic group

		Overcrowding
	No central heating	Shared Dwelling	Unshared dwelling1	Total
Bangladeshi	23.6	0.2	38.2	38.4
Indian	7.7	0.1	18.4	18.5
Other Asian	13.0	0.2	28.5	28.7
Pakistani	27.0	0.1	29.9	30.0
Black African	10.2	1.2	28.1	29.3
Black Caribbean	11.3	0.2	15.3	15.4
Other Black	10.9	0.1	19.9	20.1
Chinese	7.6	0.6	24.3	24.8
Other Ethnic Group	10.2	1.0	27.0	27.9
Mixed: Other Mixed	11.0	0.3	15.6	16.0
Mixed: White and Asian	13.1	0.4	14.8	15.2
Mixed: White and Black African	11.9	0.7	19.0	19.7
Mixed: White and Black Caribbean	13.3	0.3	14.7	15.0
White	9.7	0.0	6.0	6.0
All households	10.3	0.1	7.8	7.9

Source: 2001 Census (table S123)
1 - A household’s accommodation is defined as an unshared dwelling if all the rooms are behind a door that only that household can use.