The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has recently published a report giving a detailed breakdown of findings about religion from the 2011 census. The report, Full story: What does the Census tell us about religion in 2011?, highlights that in the 2011 Census, Christianity was the largest religious group in England and Wales with 33.2 million people (59%). The second largest religious group were Muslims, with 2.7 million people (5%). The proportion of people who reported that they did not have a religion reached 14.1 million, a quarter of the population (25%). In 2011, there were 4.1 million fewer people reporting as Christian (from 72% to 59%), 6.4 million more people reporting no religion (from 15% to 25%) and 1.2 million more people reporting as Muslim (from 3% to 5%).
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