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 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.

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 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.

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 number of visits to Westminster Abbey, one of the United Kingdom’s most iconic churches in the heart of London, increased in 2024 over the previous year, reaching *** million. Westminster Abbey lies very close to the Houses of Parliament and is famous for being the burial place for several monarchs, as well as the location where they are coroneted. What are the most visited paid attractions in London? Westminster Abbey is among the most visited paid tourist attractions in London, together with the Kew Gardens and the St. Paul's Cathedral. That said, it is the Tower of London that took the top spot both before and after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2024, the number of visits to the Tower of London reached nearly ***** million but remained slightly below the figure reported in 2019. What are the most visited museums in London? Three museums topped the ranking of the most visited tourist attractions in London in 2024: the British Museum, the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, and the Tate Modern. While attendance at the British Museum and the Natural History Museum exceeded pre-pandemic levels, the number of visits to the Tate Modern stayed below the figure from 2019.