Research & Statistics Facts and stats about the Church of England.

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Facts and stats about theChurch of England

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13,000 parishes

16,000 churches (12,500 are of listed heritage)*

Caring for 52 million people across England and Europe

*Currently 15 church buildings are being offered for community use each year


Average weekly attendance 2009

1.1m people

each week

801k adults each

Sunday

145k children

each Sunday

79k children

mid week

107k adults

mid week


Christmas and Easter 2009

2,420,000 attendance

1,410,000 attendance

1,020,000 communicants

on Easter Day/Eve


Occasional offices 2009

138,000 baptisms

6,000 thanksgivin

gs

53,000 marriages

4,000 blessings

177,000 funerals at churches

and crematoria/cemeterie

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25,000 confirmatio

ns


Church of England Schools 20114,400 schools

780,000 pupils

Primary

schools

205 schools

182,000 pupils

Secondary

schools


Volunteering

• Over 50,000 people support parish church administration– Based on each PCC requiring a secretary, treasurer and

two church wardens

• Over 100,000 people work with children and young people as volunteers

• Over 10,000 people work as volunteer ministers and a further 8,000 active retired clergy and readers continue to serve the church, alongside a number of volunteer chaplains


Church of England licensed ministers 2010

Licensed stipendiary clergy 8,501Licensed self-supporting clergy 3,151Chaplains and other ministries 1,598Licensed layworkers and lay Church Army evangelists 289Active retired ordained 5,674Licensed Readers 7,172Readers with permission to officiate and active emeriti 2,713Totals CHURCH OF ENGLAND 29,092


Stipendiary clergy projections20

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Age profiles of stipendiary clergy

Under

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Age profiles of licensed ministers 2010

FT Stipendiary women

FT Stipendiary men

Self supporting women

Self supporting men

Licensed readers women

Licensed readers men

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

12%

12%

2%

4%

2%

2%

72%

64%

42%

42%

44%

41%

16%

24%

56%

54%

53%

57%

Under 40

40 - 59 years

60 and over


Diocesan clergy 2010: gender

Senior staff men3%

Senior staff women<1%

Stipendiary men55%

Stipendiary women

15%

SSM men13%

SSM women14%


Paid Chaplains 2010 Armed Forces men14%

Armed Forces women

<1%

Prison chaplains men8%

Prison chaplains women

5%

Hospital chaplains men16%

Hospital chaplains women11%

Education chap-lains men

20%

Education chap-lains women

4%

Other chaplains men18%

Other chaplains women4%


Clergy ethnicity, 2010Asian or Asian British1%

Black or Black British1%

Chinese or other ethnic group<1%

Dual heritage 1%

White 97%


Clergy ethnicity 2005 and 2010

Under 29

30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70 and over

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10%

15%

20%

25%

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Age in years


Ordination of women resolutions and petitions (1 Jan 2011)

6% resolution A

7% resolution B

3% petition

for extended episcopal ministry


Church of England core congregations 2007

Two in three

attending

adults

are female

The average age of core

congregation members is 61yrs

• 95% of core congregation members responding to the survey attended once a month or more frequently


Church of England core congregations 2007

18-24

25-34

35-44

45-54

55-64

65 and over

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Giving 1999 to 2009

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 20090

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Weekly average tax efficient planned giving per subscriber

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Growth in income and expenditure

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IncomeRecurring One off

ExpenditureCapital Recurring

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