Religion, spirituality and belief: Geographic area
Data and breakdowns of religion by geographic region are available from Scotland’s Census Data Explorer.
In 2011:
- Over a quarter of people in all local authorities except Glasgow City and City of Edinburgh reported Church of Scotland as their religion. The highest proportion of people reporting Church of Scotland as their religion were in South Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, and Eilean Siar.
- The highest proportion of people reporting Roman Catholic as their religion was in Inverclyde, while the highest proportion of people reporting Other Christian was in Eilean Siar.
- The highest proportion of people reporting being Muslim was in Glasgow City (5.4% of people in that local authority).
- Almost half of people living in Aberdeen City reporting having no religion. The local authority with the lowest proportion of people reporting having no religion was Eilean Siar.
More information on religion by geographic area can be found in Dimensions of Diversity (2010) (4.4MB).
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.
