Today’s release looks at the religion people connect or identify with (their religious affiliation), whether or not they practise or have belief in it, by age and sex using Census 2021 data.
Main Points
- In 2021, people who identified as “Christian” had the oldest average age of the tick-box response options, 51 years, compared to 40 years for the overall population of England and Wales.
- People who described themselves as “Muslim” had the youngest average age, 27 years, followed by those who reported “No religion”, 32 years.
- Only 8.8% of the 22.2 million people who reported “No religion” in 2021 were aged 65 years and over, this compares with 18.6% of the overall population who were aged 65 years and over.
- When considering the groups derived from the “Any other religion” write-in response option, the average age ranged from 27 years for the 413 people who identified as “Yazidi” to 61 years for the 235 people who identified as “Brahma Kumari”.
- Females accounted for a higher percentage of people who responded with “Other religion” (56.1%), followed by “Buddhist” (55.7%) and “Christian” (54.6%), compared with the overall population of England and Wales (51.0% females).
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