Editing North West England (section)

===Ethnicity===
[[File:Chinese Arch - geograph.org.uk - 1021559.jpg|thumb|right|[[Chinatown, Liverpool|Liverpool Chinatown]] is the oldest Chinese community in Europe.]]

According to 2009 [[Office for National Statistics]] estimates,<ref name="2009ethnicity">{{cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/lad-tables-2009.xls |title=Current Estimates – Population Estimates by Ethnic Group Mid-2009 (experimental) |publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]] |access-date=21 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810102910/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/lad-tables-2009.xls |archive-date=10 August 2011}}</ref> 91.6% (6,323,300) of people in the region describe themselves as 'White': 88.4% (6,101,100) [[White British]], 1.0% (67,200) [[White Irish]] and 2.2% (155,000) [[White Other (United Kingdom Census)|White Other]]. During the [[Industrial Revolution]] hundreds of thousands of [[Welsh people]] migrated to the North West of England to work in the coal mines. Parts with notably high populations with Welsh ancestry as a result of this include [[Liverpool]], [[Chester]], [[Skelmersdale]], [[Widnes]], [[Halewood]], [[Wallasey]], [[Ashton-in-Makerfield]] and [[Birkenhead]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/st-davids-day-liverpools-welsh-8738182 |title=St David's Day: why are Liverpool's Welsh links so strong? |first=Dawn |last=Collinson |date=28 February 2015 |access-date=29 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221011313/http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/st-davids-day-liverpools-welsh-8738182 |archive-date=21 February 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ashtoninmakerfieldanddistrictu3a.co.uk/About%20Ashton-in-Makerfield.html |title=About Ashton-in-Makerfield |access-date=29 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805203420/http://www.ashtoninmakerfieldanddistrictu3a.co.uk/About%20Ashton-in-Makerfield.html |archive-date=5 August 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[British Mixed|Mixed Race]] population makes up 1.3% (93,800) of the region's population. There are 323,800 [[British Asian|South Asians]], making up 4.7% of the population, and 1.1% [[Black British|Black]] (80,600). 0.6% of the population (39,900) are [[British Chinese|Chinese]] and 0.5% (36,500) of people belong to another ethnic group.

North West England is a very diverse region, with Manchester and Liverpool amongst the most diverse cities in Europe. 19.4% of [[Blackburn with Darwen]]'s population are Muslim, the third-highest among all local authorities in the United Kingdom and the highest outside London. Areas such as [[Moss Side]] in Greater Manchester are home to a 30%+ [[Black British]] population. In contrast, the town of St. Helens in Merseyside, unusually for a city area, has a very low percentage of ethnic minorities with 98% identifying as White British.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/urban-areas-in-england-and-wales/urban-areas-in-england-and-wales-ks06--ethnic-group.xls |title=UK Government Web Archive |access-date=19 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316031524/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/urban-areas-in-england-and-wales/urban-areas-in-england-and-wales-ks06--ethnic-group.xls |archive-date=16 March 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> The City of Liverpool, over 800 years old, is one of the few places in Britain where ethnic minority populations can be traced back over dozens of generations: being the closest major city in England to Ireland, it is home to a significant ethnic Irish population, with the city being home to one of the first ever [[British African-Caribbean people|Afro-Caribbean]] communities in the UK, as well as the oldest Chinatown in Europe.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="3" |Ethnic group
! colspan="12" |Year
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! colspan="2" |1971 estimations<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1t8915s |title=Explaining ethnic differences: Changing patterns of disadvantage in Britain |date=2003 |publisher=Bristol University Press |edition=1|doi=10.2307/j.ctt1t8915s |jstor=j.ctt1t8915s }}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1981 estimations<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1985 |title=Ethnic minorities in Britain: statistical information on the pattern of settlement |url=https://jstor.org/stable/community.28327806 |journal=Commission for Racial Equality|pages=Table 2.1|last1= Equality|first1= Commission for Racial}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1991<ref name=":412">Data is taken from United Kingdom [http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/index.htm Casweb Data services] of the United Kingdom [http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/step1.cfm 1991 Census on Ethnic Data for England, Scotland and Wales] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405213012/http://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk/step1.cfm |date=5 April 2022 }} (Table 6)</ref>
! colspan="2" |2001<ref>{{Cite web |title=Office of National Statistics; 2001 Census Key Statistics |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/local-authorities-ks06--ethnic-group.xls |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2011<ref>{{Cite web |title=2011 Census: Ethnic Group, local authorities in England and Wales |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/rft-table-ks201ew.xls |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2021<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ethnic group – Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS021/editions/2021/versions/1/filter-outputs/d2f0a39a-75b6-4995-b4bd-a5b68ff79027#get-data |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=ons.gov.uk}}</ref>
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
![[White people in the United Kingdom|White]]: Total
!–
!98.7%
!6,580,840
!97.5%
!6,480,131
!96.3%
!6,355,495
!94.43%
!6,361,716
!90.2%
!6,347,394
!85.6%
|-
|White: [[White British|British]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|6,203,043
|92.17%
|6,141,069
|87%
|6,019,385
|81.2%
|-
|White: [[Irish Briton|Irish]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|77,499
|
|64,930
|
|61,422
|0.8%
|-
|White: [[Irish Traveller]]/[[Romani people|Gypsy]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
| –
| –
|4,147
| –
|5,741
|0.1%
|-
|White: Roma
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|7,359
|0.1%
|-
|White: [[White Other (United Kingdom Census)|Other]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|74,953
|
|151,570
|
|253,487
|3.4%
|-
![[British Asian|Asian or Asian British]]: Total
!–
!–
!–
!–
!174,878
!2.6%
!256,762
!3.81%
!437,485
!6.2%
!622,685
!8.4%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|Indian]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|55,823
|
|72,219
|
|107,353
|
|140,413
|1.9%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: [[British Pakistani|Pakistani]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|77,150
|
|116,968
|
|189,436
|
|303,611
|4.1%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: [[British Bangladeshi|Bangladeshi]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|15,016
|
|26,003
|
|45,897
|
|60,859
|0.8%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: [[British Chinese|Chinese]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|17,803
|
|26,887
|
|48,049
|
|54,051
|0.7%
|-
|Asian or Asian British: [[British Asian|Asian Other]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|9,086
|
|14,685
|
|46,750
|
|63,751
|0.9%
|-
![[Black British people|Black or Black British]]: Total
!–
!–
!–
!–
!47,478
!0.7%
!41,637
!0.61%
!97,869
!1.38%
!173,918
!2.3%
|-
|Black or Black British: [[Black British|African]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|9,417
|
|15,912
|
|59,278
|
|126,608
|1.7%
|-
|Black or Black British: [[British African-Caribbean community|Caribbean]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|21,763
|
|20,422
|
|23,131
|
|25,919
|0.3%
|-
|Black or Black British: [[Other Black|Other]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|16,298
|
|5,303
|
|15,460
|
|21,391
|0.3%
|-
![[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed]]: Total
!–
!–
!–
!–
!–
!–
!62,539
!0.92%
!110,891
!1.57%
!163,245
!2.1%
|-
|Mixed: [[White people|White]] and [[British African-Caribbean community|Caribbean]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|22,119
|
|39,204
|
|46,962
|0.6%
|-
|Mixed: [[White people|White]] and [[Black British|African]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|9,853
|
|18,392
|
|30,011
|0.4%
|-
|Mixed: [[White people|White]] and [[British Asian|Asian]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|17,223
|
|30,529
|
|47,829
|0.6%
|-
|Mixed: [[Multiracial|Other Mixed]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|13,344
|
|22,766
|
|38,443
|0.5%
|-
!Other: Total
!–
!–
!–
!–
!24,373
!0.4%
!13,331
!0.19%
!44,216
!0.62%
!110,156
!1.5%
|-
|Other: [[Arab people|Arab]]
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
| –
| –
|24,528
|
|43,865
|0.6%
|-
|Other: Any other ethnic group
|–
|–
|–
|–
|24,373
|0.4%
|13,331
|0.19%
|19,688
|
|66,291
|0.9%
|-
!Non-White: Total
!–
!1.3%
!168,695
!2.5%
!246,729
!3.7%
!374,269
!5.6%
!690,461
!9.8%
!1,070,004
!14.4%
|-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
!Total
!–
!100%
!6,749,535
!100%
!6,726,860
!100%
!6,729,764
!100%
!7,052,177
!100%
!7,417,398
!100%
|}