THE number of people who identify as English in Carlisle has been revealed.

St George's Day – a celebration of England’s patron saint and the country’s history – is on Tuesday, April 23.

But the latest population survey from the Office for National Statistics, which covers all of last year, shows just 43 per cent of people in England said they identified as English.

Respondents can select as many options as they like from British, English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish or ‘other’.

In Carlisle, 47 per cent of people said they identified as English last year – up from 30 per cent in the year to June 2016, before the Brexit referendum.

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A decade earlier, 42 per cent of people identified as English, while it was 63 per cent in 2004.

Nationally, the number of people identifying as English has broadly fallen over the last decade.

In Carlisle, 52 per cent of respondents said they identified as British – below the national average of 57 per cent.