Editing North West England (section)

===Religion===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Religion in North West England
|-
! rowspan="2" |Religion
! colspan="2" |[[2021 United Kingdom census|2021]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=TS030 – Religion Edit query|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts030|access-date=2022-11-29|website=nomisweb.co.uk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |[[2011 United Kingdom census|2011]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=KS209EW (Religion) – Nomis – 2011 |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks209ew |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=nomisweb.co.uk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |[[2001 United Kingdom census|2001]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=KS007 – Religion – Nomis – 2001 |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/ks007 |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=nomisweb.co.uk}}</ref>
|-
!Number
!{{Abbr|%|percentage}}
!Number
!{{Abbr|%|percentage}}
!Number
!{{Abbr|%|percentage}}
|-
| style="background:#E0E0FF;" |[[History of Christianity in Britain|Christianity]]
| 3,895,779
| 52.5%
| 4,742,860
| 67.3%
| 5,249,686
| 78.0%
|-
| style="background:#E0FFD0;" |[[Islam in the United Kingdom|Islam]]
| 563,105
| 7.6%
| 356,458
| 5.1%
| 204,261
| 3.0%
|-
| style="background:#FFE0C0;" |[[Hinduism in the United Kingdom|Hinduism]]
| 49,749
| 0.7%
| 38,259
| 0.5%
| 27,211
| 0.4%
|-
| style="background:#E0F0FF;" |[[History of the Jews in the United Kingdom|Judaism]]
| 33,285
| 0.4%
| 30,417
| 0.4%
| 27,974
| 0.4%
|-
| style="background:#FFFFC0;" |[[Buddhism in the United Kingdom|Buddhism]]
| 23,028
| 0.3%
| 20,695
| 0.3%
| 11,794
| 0.2%
|-
| style="background:#F0F0C0;" |[[Sikhism in the United Kingdom|Sikhism]]
| 11,862
| 0.2%
| 8,857
| 0.1%
| 6,487
| 0.1%
|-
| style="background:#F0E0F0;" |Other religion
| 28,103
| 0.4%
| 19,166
| 0.3%
| 10,625
| 0.2%
|-
| style="background:#F5F5F5;" |[[Irreligion in the United Kingdom|No religion]]
| 2,419,624
| 32.6%
| 1,397,916
| 19.8%
| 705,045
| 10.5%
|-
| style="background:#DCDCDC;" |Religion not stated
| 392,862
| 5.3%
| 437,549
| 6.2%
| 486,681
| 7.2%
|-
!Total population
! '''7,417,397'''
! '''100%'''
! '''7,052,177'''
! '''100%'''
! '''6,729,764'''
! '''100%'''
|-
|}

One in five of the population in the North West is [[Catholic Church|Catholic]],<ref>{{cite news |title=The Catholic Vote in Britain Helped Carry Blair To Victory |quote=There are considerable regional variations, of course, Catholics being most widespread in London, Scotland and particularly the North-West (where one in five is Catholic) |url=http://www.ipsos-mori.com/newsevents/ca/247/The-Catholic-Vote-In-Britain-Helped-Carry-Blair-To-Victory.aspx |work=Ipsos MORI |date=23 May 2005 |access-date=16 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104203539/https://www.ipsos-mori.com/newsevents/ca/247/The-Catholic-Vote-In-Britain-Helped-Carry-Blair-To-Victory.aspx |archive-date=4 January 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> a result of large-scale [[Irish migration to Great Britain|Irish emigration]] in the nineteenth century<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/scgb1.html |title=Great Britain, Statistics by Diocese, by Catholic Population [Catholic-Hierarchy] |first=David M. |last=Cheney |access-date=19 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115214456/http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/scgb1.html |archive-date=15 January 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Kevin Phillips, ''The Cousins' Wars'' (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 480–84. Phillips notes: "The subjugation [of the Irish] of the seventeenth century was almost complete.... During the first quarter of the eighteenth century [after the Treaty of Union], Catholic bishops were banned and priests required to register. Catholics lost their right to vote, hold office, own a gun or a horse worth more than 5 pounds, or live in towns without paying special fees... Once again the Irish were pushed west to poorer lands, an exodus that prefigured the disposition of the American Indians over the next two centuries."</ref> as well as the high number of English [[Recusancy|recusants]] in [[Lancashire]].{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}