There has been a large fall in the number of people who consider themselves as Christian, dropping below half the population of England and Wales for the first time.
The Office for National Statistics has released it’s latest data taken from the 2021 Census, showing the changes since 2011.
Some 46.2% said they were Christian, down from 59.3% in 2011.
England and Wales are becoming less white and Christian, new official data reveals today.
The ONS also revealed that two-thirds of Londoners said they were from an ethnic minority in 2021 census
The number of people in England and Wales identifying as white has fallen by around 500,000 in a decade
And for the first time since the census began fewer than half the population said they were Christian
Some 81.7 per cent of residents in England and Wales described themselves as white on the day of the 2021 census, down from 86 per cent a decade earlier.