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White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller

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 Irish Travellers, regardless of skin colour, living in Britain, Ireland and North America, see Irish Travellers.

White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller
Population pyramid of White: Gypsy or Irish Travellers in 2021
Total population
United Kingdom United Kingdom: 73,709 – 0.1% (2021/22 Census)
 England: 64,205 – 0.1% (2021)[1]
 Scotland: 3,343 – 0.06% (2022)[2]
 Wales: 3,552 – 0.1% (2021)[1]
 Northern Ireland: 2,609 – 0.1% (2021)[note 1][3]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Angloromani · British English · Hiberno-English · Shelta
Beurla Reagaird · Irish · Welsh Romani
Religion
Predominantly Christianity
Note
  1. ^ (including 'White' people, as defined by NISRA, in the 'Irish Traveller' ethnic group)

White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census. In the 2011 census, the White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller population was 63,193 or about 0.1 percent of the total population of the country. The ethnicity category may encompass populace from the distinct ethnic groups of Romanichal Travellers or Irish Travellers, and their respective related subgroupings, who identify as, or are perceived to be, white people in the United Kingdom.

Within Britain, England and Wales statistics (which make up around 95 per cent of the UK's census data) designate the category as the article describes.[4] The Scottish census lists the category, in a slightly different form, as 'White: Gypsy/Traveller'.

In Northern Ireland, where only the term 'White' is used in ethnic classification, 'Irish Traveller' is listed as a separate "ethnic group" to 'White'. The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, however, does treat 'Irish Traveller' as a subgroup of 'White' in census data analysis.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Ethnic group, England and Wales: Census 2021". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Scotland's Census 2022 - Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion - Chart data". Scotland's Census. National Records of Scotland. 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024. Alternative URL 'Search data by location' > 'All of Scotland' > 'Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion' > 'Ethnic Group'
  3. ^ "MS-B01: Ethnic group". Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  4. ^ "2011 Census: Ethnic group, local authorities in England and Wales". Office for National Statistics. 11 December 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  5. ^ National Identity (Classification 1) by Ethnic Group DC2206NI (administrative geographies), Accessed 13 June 2014
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