| White British | 74.6% |
| White Eastern European | 9.5% |
| White Irish | 4.4% |
| White Other | 3.9% |
| Black African | 2.5% |
| Mixed other | 1.9% |
| Afro-Caribbean/Other | 1.7% |
| Asian | 1.5% |
Does this list surprise you? It did surprise me. From 2008 statistics on Catholics in England, which make up only 4.2 million of the entire population. We are a minority Church. And dropping. There are less Catholics in England now than a hundred years ago by some statistics.
In the 2001 UK census, there were 4.2 million Catholics in England and Wales, some 8 per cent of the population. One hundred years earlier, in 1901, they had represented only 4.8 per cent of the population. The percentage of Catholics was at its highest in the 1981 census, with 8.7 per cent.[7] In 2009 an Ipsos Mori poll found 9.6 percent, or 5.2 million, Catholics in England and Wales.[8] Sizeable Catholic populations include North West England where one in five is Catholic.[9] This includes Liverpool which has the highest proportion of any city in Great Britain at 46 per cent; historically, this is due both to a large influx of Irish migrantsafter the 1800 Act of Union, in which Ireland became part of the United Kingdom,[10][11] as well as a high concentration of English recusants living in Lancashire.