Young people lead the way with Cornish identity!

Since just 2006 school children in Cornwall have rightly been allowed to record themselves (or via their parents for the younger ones) as ‘ethnically’ Cornish or at least identifying as Cornish, on the annual Schools Census - the Census and Pupil Level Annual Schools Census (PLASC).

Since then the number identifying as Cornish has risen from 24% to 51.1%

2006: 24 percent

2007: 27 percent

2008: 30 percent

2009: 34 percent

2010: 37 percent

2011: 41 percent

2012: 43.2 percent

2013: 46 percent

2014: 48 percent

2015: 49.5 percent

2016: 50.6 percent

2017: 51.1 percent

This bodes well for the future.

As is their absolute right in law: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cornish-granted-minority-status-within-the-uk

All statistics from Cornwall Council 22.02.2018

Photographs: proud young Cornish men and young Cornish wrestlers