Fewer than half of people in England and Wales now count themselves as Christian, after a big increase in people with no religion, while the share of the population who identify as white has dropped, new census data showed on Tuesday.
England and Wales's white population slipped to 81.7% of the total in 2021's census from 86% in 2011, while the proportion who described their ethnicity as "Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh" rose to 9.3% from 7.5%.
England and Wales's population of people who identified as "Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African" rose to 4% from 3.3%.