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Today, the vast majority of Ulster Protestants live in Northern Ireland, which was created in 1921 to have an Ulster Protestant majority, and in the east of County Donegal. Politically, most are unionists, who have an Ulster British identity and want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom.
In the Belfast City Council and Derry and Strabane District Council areas, the figures at ward level vary from 99% Protestant to 92% Catholic. Following the reform of local government in Northern Ireland the twenty-six districts created in 1973 were replaced with eleven "super districts". The first election using these districts took place on ...
The Belfast Metropolitan Area dominates in population terms, with over a third of the inhabitants of Northern Ireland. When Northern Ireland was created, it had a Protestant majority of approximately two-to-one, [2] [3] [4] unlike the Republic of Ireland, where Catholics were in the majority. [5]
BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for ...
The Belfast Islamic Centre states that roughly half of the Muslim population lives in Belfast alone. [17] The Muslims in Northern Ireland come from over 40 countries of origin, from Western Europe all the way through to the Far East. [18] This situation is reflected in comparably complex institutional arrangements. [19]
In Belfast, the 1970s were a time of rising residential segregation. [14] It was estimated in 2004 that 92.5% of public housing in Northern Ireland was divided along religious lines, with the figure rising to 98% in Belfast. [1] Self-segregation is a continuing process, despite the Northern Ireland peace process.
Three-quarters of Belfast's estimated 97 peace lines and related structures (such as gates and closed roads) are in the north and west of the city. [4] These are also the poorer and more disadvantaged areas of Belfast. 67% of deaths during the sectarian violence occurred within 500 metres (550 yd) of one of these "interface structures". [5]
Despite this, Protestantism since 2002 has been relegated to the third largest group recorded on the census, having been overtaken by those who choose "No Religion". [14] [16] Overall Protestants accounted for 4% of the total Irish population in 2006 and 2011. [14] In the 2016 census Protestantism accounted for 4.2% of the population. [17]