The history of people born in Iraq living in Britain is one largely of escape from Saddam Hussein.
The communities are not homogenous. Some are ethnically Kurdish from the north of the country. Some belong to other communities, such as Shia Muslims from the south.
The figures in the 2001 Census need to be treated with caution as the number of Iraqis living in Britain has changed rapidly because of asylum movements into western Europe.
At the time of the Census there were about 32,000 Iraq-born people in Britain. We do not know how that figure has changed over time as Iraq-born people were not separately recorded before 2001.