Church of England attendance figures: Number of children in church falls in half over the past 20 years
from Hansard, H/T Anglican Ink:
Neil O’Brien: (Cons.) Harborough: To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what average weekly attendance was in each year since 1994.
Answered on 12 April 2024
Andrew Selous: The National Church Institutions first started collecting attendance data centrally in the autumn of 2000; as a result, it is not possible to publish data for the period 1994-1999. A methodological change also took place between 2000 and 2003 which means statistics for those years are not directly comparable with the data now collected. The data displayed below shows the longest period of comparable figures available, from 2003-2022.
Attendance figures are collected from churches for the first 4 Sundays of October and in the following Monday-Saturday midweek periods – this exercise is referred to as the “October count”. Figures include attendance at baptisms, as these usually take place in service, but not attendance at weddings and funerals. Attendance at services for schools is NOT included in the average weekly and average Sunday attendance figures but is reported separately.
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