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White Irish

This article is about one of the white ethnicity classifications used in the United Kingdom census. For the broad racial group, see white people in the United Kingdom. For the history of immigration from Ireland, regardless of race or ethnicity, see Irish migration to Great Britain.

White Irish
Distribution by regional area at the 2011 census
Total population
White Irish
585,177
(Excluding Northern Ireland)[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
 United Kingdom
England England517,001 (1.0%) (2011)[1]
Scotland Scotland54,090 (1.0%) (2011)[2]
Wales Wales14,086 (0.5%) (2011)[1]
Northern Ireland (including all White people reporting at least Irish or Irish with one of more additional national identities)520,586 (28.7%) (2011)[3][4]
Languages
British English · Hiberno-English · Irish
Scottish Gaelic · Scots · Ulster Scots · Shelta}
Religion
Predominantly Christianity (mainly Roman Catholic, some Anglican and Presbyterian);[1] Non-religious and others

White Irish is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census. In the 2011 census, the White Irish population was 585,177 or 1% of Great Britain's total population.

This total does not include the White Irish population estimate for Northern Ireland, where only the term 'White' is used in ethnic classification and such White British people and White Irish are amalgamated. National identity is listed separately in NI, where 28.7% of those who identified as White classified themselves as Irish only or Irish with one or more additional categories (e.g. Irish and Northern Irish at 1.1%), making up a significant portion of the population.[3][1][2][5]

In the 2021 Census of England and Wales, 507,473 people classified themselves as White Irish, amounting to 0.9 per cent of the total population.[6]

  1. ^ a b c d e 2011 Census: Ethnic group, local authorities in England and Wales, Accessed 13 June 2014
  2. ^ a b c Table 2 - Ethnic groups, Scotland, 2001 and 2011 Scotland's Censuses published 30 September 2013, Accessed 13 June 2014.
  3. ^ a b "2011 Census - Key Statistics for Northern Ireland". Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. 11 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Table DC2206NI: National identity (classification 1) by ethnic group". Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  5. ^ National Identity (Classification 1) by Ethnic Group DC2206NI (administrative geographies), Accessed 13 June 2014
  6. ^ "Population of England and Wales". www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

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