Editing Purley, London (section)

==Demography==
As of 2022, the largest ethnic group in Purley & Woodcote was '''‘White’''', constituting 56.97% of the total population. The ‘'''Asian'''’ ethnic group was second largest, making up 20.13%, while ‘'''Black''', Caribbean or African’ accounted for 11.73% of the population. '''Mixed/'''multiple ethnicities made up 7.5%. '<nowiki/>'''Other ethnic groups'''' account for 3% of the population. The smallest ethnic group was ''''Arab',''' making up only 0.6% of the wards population.

71.4% of the wards population were born in the UK. The remaining 28.6% were from overseas, with the largest amount being listed as from 'The Middle East & Asia'.

The largest religion was listed as '''Christianity''', at 51.3%. The second largest religion was '''Islam''', at 9.5%. Third was '''Hinduism''', at 8.2%. Following that were '''Sikhism''' at 1%, '''Buddhism''' at 0.9%, '''Judaism''' at 0.2% and '<nowiki/>'''Other Religion'''<nowiki/>' at 0.8%. As well as this, ''''No Religion'''<nowiki/>' accounted for 28% of the population.