New census data has shown Watford's latest ethnicity and national identity stats – and also revealed one in four people aren't religious.

Just 44.4% of people in Watford are Christian, while 24.8% identified as having no religion, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.

Muslims made up 13% of the local authority district’s population.

English was the main language for 76.8% of households.

In terms of ethnicity, 60.9% of people were white, 24.5% were Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh, 6.3% were black, black British, black Welsh, Caribbean or African, and 4.6% belonged to mixed or multiple ethnic groups.

For national identity 76.9% identified as a UK identity, while 19.5% identified as a non-UK identity online. Those who identified with both made up 3.6%.

Nationally, 46.2% of the population described themselves as Christian in the 2021 census, down from almost 60% in 2011.

The 2021 survey, carried out on March 21 last year, was filled out by more than 24 million households across England and Wales.

The data released on Tuesday covers ethnicity, religion, national identity and language.

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