White Irish
Distribution by regional area at the 2011 census | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Great Britain: 564,342 – 0.9% (2021/22 Census) England: 494,251 – 0.9% (2021) Scotland: 56,877 – 1.0% (2022) Wales: 13,214 – 0.4% (2021) Northern Ireland: 520,586 – 28.7% (2011) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Languages | |
| British English · Hiberno-English · Irish Scottish Gaelic · Scots · Ulster Scots · Shelta | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Christianity (71.6%); minority follows other faiths (1.5%) or are irreligious (21.5%) 2021 census, England and Wales only |
White Irish is an ethnicity classification used in the census in the United Kingdom for England, Scotland and Wales. In the 2021 census, the White Irish population was 564,342 or 0.9% of Great Britain's total population. This was a slight fall from the 2011 census which recorded 585,177 or 1% of the 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.