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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Pamela Duncan, Carmen Aguilar García and Lucy Swan

Census 2021 in charts: Christianity now minority religion in England and Wales

Cars drive past the United Reform Church in Muswell Hill, London.
Cars drive past the United Reform Church in Muswell Hill, London. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Census 2021 will probably be remembered as the one in which Christianity became a minority religion in England and Wales.

On census day, 21 March 2021, 46.2% of people identified themselves as Christians, compared with 59.3% of the population in the 2011 census, a 13-percentage point drop in a decade.

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