In 2023, the average weekly church attendance at Church of England services was 693,000. Between 2009 and 2019 the average weekly church attendance for the Church of England fell by approximately 218,000. Church attendance figures fell even more during 2020 and 2021, although this was due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2023, 36 percent of people that were regular attendees of Church of England services were aged 70 or over, with just under half being aged between 18 and 69, and 18 percent being 17 or younger.

In 2023, approximately 1.96 million people in England attended a Christmas Church of England service, compared with the average weekly attendance of 693,000 people.

This statistic presents the average weekly attendance figures for the Church of England in London from 2012 to 2017. During this period there has been a net decrease of 12 thousand people attending church in London, a trend which is also reflected in the weekly attendance figures for the whole of England.

The aim of the study was to assess afresh the current number and frequency of people attending church of all denominations in England in 1998. A previous study had been undertaken in 1989 and it was felt important to see how trends had changed.
The 1989 study is held at the UK Data Archive under SN:2842, and two similar Scottish studies (1984 and 1994) are held under SNs 2554 and 4395.

The English Church Census, 1989 was carried out on October 15th, 1989 by MARC Europe (this research body ceased to exist and Christian Research was formed out of it). The main aim of the survey was to get details of church attendance in England by denomination, churchmanship, county and environment. Comparable studies have been conducted in 1979, 1998, and 2005.

The aim of the project was to assess afresh the current number and frequency of people attending church of all denomonations in Scotland in 1994. A previous study had been undertaken in 1984 (held at the UKDA under SN 2554), and it was felt important to see how trends had changed. In particular, the principal investigators wanted to know how attendance had developed especially with regard to the age of those going to church. The survey also asked questions about the Bible version used in the church and whether churches had Bible study meetings.

This statistic shows the standardized weekly attendance at Methodist Churches in Great Britain in 2012/2013, by type of service. The most common type of service were groups and outreach programs and sessions that take place in an informal environment. These types of worship had over double the amount of attendees as the normal Sunday services.

The aim of the study was to ascertain the number and frequency of people attending church of all denominations in Scotland in 2002. Several denominational changes had taken place in Scotland since the last census in 1994 (SN 4395) and 1984 (SN 2554). Political changes, with the formation of the Scottish Parliament, had brought about boundary changes for many councils, by which church attendance was previously analysed. A combination of denomination, political and population change had necessitated a revision of church attendance. In particular the study was to evaluate if the age structure of churchgoers had altered over the past decade and to establish if the trend in decline in the number of young people attending Sunday worship in England was true of Scotland.

This source hails from the earlier years of large-scale survey research in Britain, with the electronic data file created following scanning of and data capture from original survey returns. The data collection provides insight into the lifestyles and religiosity of urban young people, predominantly working-class, at the dawn of the affluent society. It comprises a stratified random sample survey of the religious, social and associational lives of young people aged 15-24 in urban England in 1957. It was designed and fielded by the Newman Demographic Survey, a private research institute directed by religious sociologist Tony Spencer, in collaboration with Young Christian Workers, a faith-based youth organisation. The investigators aimed to yield a sample of English urban youth which would include at least 1000 Catholic respondents, representing all English Catholic dioceses. 8196 was achieved, of which following some apparently random data loss 5834 were of sufficient quality for scanning and data capture in 2010. The survey instrument consisted primarily of closed-form items piloted in Gateshead, Highgate and Manchester, and was designed following correspondence with specialist survey experts: Len England (1901-1999), Director of Mass Observation; Leslie Austen, director of Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Ltd; and W.L. Readman at the National Food Survey at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. John Mandeville of the British Tabulating Machine Company, a British-based company operating under licence to IBM, also provided advice to the survey investigators. The electoral register was used as the sampling frame, using a version of the 'nth page' method. To prevent interviewer fatigue, about half of the respondents (70% of Anglicans) completed a short version of the questionnaire, covering items on leisure and religious belief, while the remainder completed a longer version including items on associational memberships, schooling, religious attendance and practice, marital status, and parental country and religion of origin. Some written-in responses (on leisure, religious affiliation, associational memberships and occupation) have been captured. Design and post-stratification weights have been calculated for users.

The second Scottish Church Census was carried out on May 11-12, 2002. Comparable studies have been conducted in Scotland in 1984 and 1994 and in England in 1979, 1989, 1998 and 2005. All were organized and led by Dr Peter Brierley, executive director of the organization Christian Research prior to his retirement in 2007.

The aim of the study was to ascertain the number and frequency of people attending church of all denominations in Scotland in 2002. Several denominational changes had taken place in Scotland since the last census in 1994 ("https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4395#!/details" Target="_blank">SN 4395) and 1984 ("https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=2554" Target="_blank">SN 2554). Political changes, with the formation of the Scottish Parliament, had brought about boundary changes for many councils, by which church attendance was previously analyzed. A combination of denomination, political and population changes had necessitated a revision of church attendance. In particular the study was to evaluate if the age structure of churchgoers had altered over the past decade and to establish if the trend in decline in the number of young people attending Sunday worship in England was true of Scotland.

The fourth English Church Census was carried out on 8 May 2005. Comparable studies had been conducted in 1979, 1989 and 1998. All were organised and led by Dr Peter Brierley, executive director of the organisation Christian Research prior to his retirement in 2007. The goal of the study was to enumerate a complete census of Trinitarian Christian churches in England and their attendance, along with gathering data on a number of questions relating to age and racial makeup, evangelistic ministries, and mission-related activities. A similar attendance survey in Scotland was conducted in 2002.

The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on A Vision of Britain webpages, where users can browse the database's documentation system online.

These data were computerised by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project and its collaborators. They form part of the Great Britain Historical Database, which contains a wide range of geographically-located statistics, selected to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain, generally at sub-county scales.

The 1851 Census of Religious Worship was a separate census from the 1851 Census of Population, gathering data on church attendance on Sunday 30th March 1851. These data are taken from the published reports, which for England and Wales assemble data by Registration District, and for Scotland by counties and burghs. The data for England and Wales were computerised by Paul Ell as part of his doctoral research, and include some changes to the tabulated numbers based on information in the footnotes to the tables. The Scottish data were computerised later for the GBHDB, with funding from the ESRC and the UK National Lottery.

The data list, for each religious denomination within each area, the number of churches, the number of "sittings" (total seats available across all services on the census Sunday) and the number of "attendances", i.e. persons attending services. The only non-Christian group included were Jews.

To ascertain the numbers going to church regularly in Scotland, their trend, by geographical area and denomination, their age/sex, and the Bible version used in churches.

The English Church Census, 2005 followed-up from English Church Census, 1989 (available from the UKDA under SN 2842). The project surveyed each of the 37,000 churches in England and the response rate was 50 percent. The main form was completed by someone in authority and provides key characteristics of the church, its leadership, the congregation (size and frequency of attendance, age, ethnicity), ethos ('churchmanship' or theology), midweek activities, community service and so on. A very brief, anonymous form was also given to each person attending on census day asking for gender, broad age category and frequency of attendance. The counts obtained from these slips were recorded for each church, but no individual-level data are held.

The English Church Census, 2005 had a two-fold aim:

• to provide the best information available on the extent of religious activity by Christians in England
• to make progress in answering a number of important questions about contemporary religious practice

This statistic shows the distribution of Church of England congregations in England and Europe in 2013, by size. Over ** percent of Churches had under ** regular attendees, and ** percent had under **. Only * percent of churches had congregations that exceeded *** members.

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In 1963, details of the membership of congregations in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United Kingdom and Ireland took place and was published in The Construction Era. Individual congregations and their membership, which is assumed to be total membership, was published alongside a chart indicating how far it had progressed in the Church Building Programme. A total membership of 29,174 persons was recorded. However, only 150 out of 185 (81.1%) of congregations returned figures. There are ten variables in the dataset: ID, unit name, membership, date, Stake, City, Latitude, Longitude, Easting, and Northing. The data is ready for incorporation into a GIS system.

As of August 2025, approximately 28 percent of people in Great Britain said that they believed in a God / Gods, compared with 38 percent who had no belief in God / Gods at all.

This statistic displays the share of respondent’s attendance at religious services. Of the ***** individuals surveyed, ** percent stated that they never attend religious services, this was the largest share recorded. It was followed by ** percent of individuals who stated that they attend religious services less often than monthly. Only ** percent of respondents stated that they attend religious services weekly.