Last updated 9 December 2025
The Catholic Statistics Dashboard is a dashboard measuring the Catholic Church's impact on England & Wales.
In particular, it displays data and trends concerning the church's success in ministering the sacraments.
It helps answer questions such as:
It seeks to answer questions like these in an easy-to-understand way.
As a Catholic interested in spreading the Good News, I want to know which dioceses are better at converting people, so that I can learn from their approach.
As a reader of newspaper reports about the Catholic Church, I want a comprehensive source of reliable statistics, so that I can put cherry-picked statistics into context.
As a Catholic interested in the health of the Catholic Church, I want to know if the church is growing or shrinking, so that I can plan accordingly.
All data on this website up to 2022 is taken from Catholicism in Numbers, a project by the Catholic Record Society, and in particular by Timothea Kinnear and Dr Alana Harris.
Post-2022 data is taken from the statistics published on the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England & Wales website:
The Catholic Data Dashboard is not affiliated with the Catholic Record Society nor the CBCEW in any form.