The number of people who say they have no religion has risen.
For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales describe themselves as Christian, the Census 2021 has revealed.
Ticking "no religion" does not mean having no beliefs, says Prof Linda Woodhead, from King's College London. The number of people identifying as Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African was 2.5% of the population, up from 1.8%, taking the figure from 990,000 to 1.5 million. With its very simple optional question, "What is your religion?", the census does not illustrate the range of 22.2 million people in the "no religion" category; from those who do not believe in god at all to those who do in some form, or believe in the power of prayer and an afterlife or are spiritual in some way.
And south-west England is shown to be the least religiously diverse region, with 3.2% selecting a religion other than Christian.
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