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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

n 2023, there were approximately 67,800 baptism and thanksgiving services performed by the Church of England, compared with 82,100 in 2022.

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 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 1989 English Church Census (SN:2842) found there had been a drastic drop in those, aged 15-19, attending the English church in the 1980's. The aim was to discover why they had left and what, if anything, could be done about it. A key finding was the importance of having people in church who understood teenagers, their values and their language.

In order to gauge the views of a wide range of teenage church attenders the sample of church teenagers was structured by denomination, churchmanship, environment and area. The denomination and churchmanship categories were based on an analysis of current teenage church attendance from the English Church Census. Churches were sampled in three areas (the North, South and London). Within these areas churches were sampled in four environments (city centre, suburb, council estate and rural).

Teenagers who were not regular churchgoers were contacted through secondary schools. Schools which agreed to take part in the survey were clustered in geographical areas close to responding churches.

Transcripts, with glosses and translations, of primary-age children's unguided prayers in Roman Catholic, Church of England and non-faith settings. Analysis of the proportion of religious language used by age groups and by setting. Prayers were gathered as part of a study on the effect of learned religious vocabulary on the language of non-directed prayer in children aged 5 to 11.

This dataset includes a collection of photos, showing the installation and a selection of typical responses illustrating the range of items collected. The file names show where the data was collected and where to find the transcripts.

The first two letters identify the faith-stance of the school: RC = Roman Catholic, CE = Church of England, NF = Non-Faith. The number after yr identifies the school year of the child: yr 1 = age 5 or 6, yr 3 = age 7 or 8, yr 5 = age 9 or 10. The final numbers identify a location in the accompanying transcript: the first number gives the section, and the second the individual entry.

So an image with file name CE yr 3 5-8 shows a response collected in a Church of England school, from a year 3 child, and is listed in the transcripts in section 5, item 8

The 1998 English Church Attendance Survey (SN:4394) found there had been a drastic drop in those, aged under 15, attending the English church in the 1990's. The aim was to discover why they had left and what, if anything, could be done about it. A key finding was the lack of 'fun' in church, the influence of grandparents and the importance of having people in church who understood tweenagers, their values and their language.

The sample of church tweenagers was structured by denomination, churchmanship, environment and area. Other tweenagers were contacted through schools, those which agreed to take part in the survey, clustered in geographical areas close to responding churches. In addition, forms were distributed to various Christian organisations working with young people in this age range.

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Counts of places of religious worship in England and Wales. Geographies include local authority districts (LADs), built up areas (BUAs) and combined authorities.