Fascinating new results from the 2021 census for England and Wales: England and Wales now minority Christian countries, census reveals Data shows Leicester and Birmingham have become UK’s first ‘minority majority’ cities in new age of ‘super-diversity’ www.theguardian.com Religion, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics The religion of usual residents and household religious composition in England and Wales, Census 2021 data.
www.ons.gov.
uk A breakdown: 94.0% of respondents answered the voluntary Religion question (56 million) 46.2% identified as Christian down from 59.
3% in 2011 No religion was the second largest group, 37.2% from 25.2% Muslim is 6.
5% in 2021, up from 4.9% in 2011 “Hindu” is 1.7% in 2021, up from 1.
5% in 2011 At this rate, no religion will be the largest group in 2031. This is already the case in Wales. On ethnicity: Across the two countries, 81.
7% of the population is now white, including non-British, down from 86% in 2011, 9.3% is Asian British, up from 7.5%, 2.
5% is Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean-African and African, up from 1.8%, and 1.6% are other ethnicities.
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Interesting stuff indeed. statsman said: Fascinating new results from the 2021 census for England and Wales: England and Wales now minority Christian countries, census reveals Data shows Leicester and Birmingham have become UK’s first ‘minority majority’ cities in new age of ‘super-diversity’ www.theguardian.
com Religion, England.