- The 2011 UK Census recorded over 52 million people in England and Wales answering the question on religion. Christianity was the largest group with over 33 million people. - The second and third largest groups were Muslim and Jewish with over 2.7 million and 816,000 respectively. - Smaller religious groups collectively made up around 240,000 people, with over 56,000 people identifying as Shinto, 39,000 as Deist, and 23,500 as Wiccan. - Over 14 million people, or 25% of respondents, reported having no religion, with over 176,000 identifying as a "Realist" and 32,000 as a "Free Thinker".

1. RELIGION STATISTICS
Data from the 2011 Census

2. 0 5,000,000 10,000,000 15,000,000 20,000,000 25,000,000 30,000,000 35,000,000
Buddhist
Jewish
Sikh
Hindu
Muslim (Islam)
Christian33,243,175
2,706,066
816,633
423,158
263,346
247,743
Main
Religious
Groups
In 2011,
52,037,880 people
in England & Wales
answered the Census
question on religion
4,038,032 did not.
This bar chart shows
the main religious
groups.

3. 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000
Shintoism
Deist
Witchcraft
Satanism
Own Belief System
Heathen
Pantheism
Scientology
Believe in God
Zoroastrian
Taoist
Druid
Baha'i
Rastafarian
Ravidassia
Wicca
Spiritual
Jain
Mixed Religion
Spiritualist
Pagan56,620
39,061
23,566
20,288
13,832
11,766
11,058
7,906
5,021
4,189
4,144
4,105
2,969
2,418
2,216
1,958
1,949
1,893
1,276
1,199
1,075
‘Other’
Religions
In 2011,
240,530 people
in England & Wales
stated a religion
the Office for National
Statistics classed
as ‘other’.
This was 0.4% of the
population.
This was up from
around 151,000
people in 2001.
This bar chart shows
the ones which more
than1000 people said.

4. 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 140,000 160,000 180,000 200,000
Realist
Free Thinker
Heavy Metal
Humanist
Atheist
Agnostic
Jedi Knight176,632
32,382
29,267
15,067
6,242
513
348
In 2011,
14,097,229 people
in England & Wales
were classed as
having ‘no religion’
by the Office
for National Statistics.
This was 25.1% of the
population.
This was up from
around 7.7million
people in 2001.
This bar chart shows
the most common
answers in this
category.
No
Religion