Number of Parades
According to the Parades Commission, a total of 3405 parades (not counting funerals) were held in Northern Ireland in 2007. The following table groups these parades by type and sponsoring organisation.
| Organisation or type | Political affiliation | Number of parades | No. of sensitive parades |
| Loyalist bands | Unionist | 483 | 33 |
| Orange Order | Unionist | 452 | 23 |
| Civic (including schools, trade unions, community groups) | Non-aligned, mixed or either | 249 | 5 |
| Apprentice Boys of Derry | Unionist | 231 | 17 |
| Royal Black and Royal Arch Purple | Unionist | 167 | 5 |
| Church parades (including Boys' Brigade, Girl Guides, Legion of Mary etc.) | Non-aligned | 157 | 0 |
| Military (including British Legion) | Non-aligned | 149 | 1 |
| Other | 98 | 0 | |
| Nationalist bands | Nationalist | 59 | 11 |
| Other nationalist/republican (includes political parties) | Nationalist | 51 | 5 |
| Hibernians and Foresters | Nationalist | 28 | 2 |
| Other unionist (includes political parties) | Unionist | 21 | 0 |
| Residents' groups | Nationalist | 6 | 2 |
| Total unionist/loyalist (excluding church parades) | 1354 | 78 | |
| Total nationalist/republican (excluding church parades) | 144 | 20 |
The Police Service of Northern Ireland uses different statistics, and recorded a total of 2863 parades in 2007. Of these, 2270 were loyalist, 144 nationalist, and 449 neither. Four of these were illegal and of these three were nationalist. 45 parades were re-routed, of which all but two (one nationalist, one other) were loyalist, and 78 parades had other conditions imposed, of which 70 were loyalist, 7 nationalist and one neither. Disorder occurred at just ten parades, of which nine were loyalist and one nationalist. This is a significant decline from previous years; in 2005 disorder was recorded at 34 parades.
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