 Although some people objected to giving their religion, 51.0% had no religion, 37.1% were Christian, and 5.3% had other religions.In the 2013 census, just under 20 percent of Canterbury's population was born overseas, compared to 25 percent for New Zealand as a whole.The British Isles remains the largest region of origin, accounting for 36.5 percent of the overseas-born population in Canterbury.