A summary of the responses to the Whats your religion? question in the 2011 census for England and Wales.

Christian

• 33.2 million said they were Christian
• The number of people identifying as Christian has decreased from 71.7% in 2001 to 59.3% in 2011.
• 14.1 million said they had no religion
• The number of people saying they had no religion increased from 14.8% to 25.1% between 2001 and 2011
• Knowsley was the local authority with the highest proportion of the population saying they were Christian (80.9% of the local residents)

Other religions

• Islam is the 2^nd most popular faith in England and Wales with 2.7 million people saying they are Muslim
• The number saying they are Muslim has increased from 3% in 2001 to 4.8% in 2011
• 817,000 said they were Hindu (1.5% of the population of England and Wales)
• 423,000 said they were Sikh (0.8% of the population)
• 263,000 said they were Jewish (0.5% of the population)
• 248,000 said they were Buddhist (0.4% of the population)
• 240,000 said they were followers of other faiths not listed above (0.4% of the population).

No religion

• 14.1 million said they had no religion
• The number of people saying they had no religion increased from 14.8% to 25.1% between 2001 and 2011.
• Norwich was the local authority with the highest proportion of the population saying they have no religion at 42.5%. Brighton and Hove was the next closest with 42.1% saying they had no religion.
• Caerphilly had the largest increase in the number of locals saying they had no religion with the percentage going up from 16% in 2001 to 41% in 2011.

Refuse to answer

• The "What is your religion?" question was a voluntary question in the 2011 census
• 7.2% did not answer the question.