Church Services: Attendance

(asked on 15th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what is the average church attendance each week in (a) Rother Valley Constituency, (b) Yorkshire, and (c) England in each year of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 19th May 2020

The most recent survey of church attendance was published in 2018, and the table below contains figures aggregated from 2014-18 using average weekly attendance figures at all age services. These figures are collected each year during four weeks in October.

The figures in the table below include adult and child attendance at Sunday and midweek church services and fresh expressions, but not attendance at services for schools. Special local services such as memorials to commemorate flooding – can lead to fluctuations in the figures.

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Rother Valley*

1,450

1,260

1,170

1,130

980

Yorkshire*

82,600

82,800

77,600

75,500

75,200

Church of England

975,300

959,900

921,700

893,900

870,900

More information can be found in the annual Statistics for Mission report: https://www.churchofengland.org/media/18763

Parish boundaries do not coincide with constituency or county boundaries. Figures in the table are based on reasonable approximations as follows:

  • The Rother Valley figure refers to the parishes in the Deanery of Laughton along with the parishes of Whiston and Wickersley.
  • The Yorkshire figure refers to the Dioceses of York, Leeds, and Sheffield.
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