It's a statistic that would make anyone bolt upright – suggesting that there are more cults in the country than there are Sainsbury's – although many viewers will, fortunately, have had little to no personal contact with such groups.
Unchosen itself is a fictional story about an extreme fundamentalist Christian cult, which is largely separated from wider British society and maintains a patriarchal culture where women are expected to be submissive.
It's a set-up that resembles some suspected cults in the UK and abroad, which acted as reference points for the cast and crew when bringing this story to life. Here are the real-life influences on Netflix's Unchosen.
Unchosen true story: Real-life influences on Netflix drama
In a synergistic piece of scheduling, Unchosen is being released on Netflix mere days after four-part docuseries Trust Me: The False Prophet became a global hit for the streaming platform.
Like the fictional group in Unchosen, the devoutly religious female members are subservient to men, including self-described "prophet" Samuel Bateman, and mistrustful of outsiders with whom they rarely socialise.
Jeffs himself is investigated in more detail in earlier Netflix documentary Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, whose director Rachel Dretzin is among a large number of people who believe the FLDS to be a "cult" (which she spoke about during her appearance on the You Can't Make This Up podcast).
In the US, cults are not illegal, so they cannot be disbanded solely on the basis of meeting the common indicators. Authorities can, however, prosecute members for illegal acts committed within the cult, as they did with Jeffs.
In the UK, the law is similar, with cult membership (or even leadership) being legal, but associated acts such as "fraud, false imprisonment or harassment" are punishable in the context of such activity.
Coercion is considered a key effect of cults by former member and current academic Dr Alexandra Stein, who told File on 4 that a "fear and love dynamic" emerges in which followers become "controllable and exploitable".
Stein also highlights a "charismatic and authoritarian leader or leadership group", a "steeply hierarchical structure" and an "absolute belief system" as hallmarks of a cult that one should look out for.
It's clear that writer Julie Gearey has done her research in conveying the core tenets of cult behaviour.
Although they can seem like a far-fetched or distant concept, cult experts have warned that it's easier than you might expect to be drawn into such an organisation – and, as starkly shown in the aforementioned statistic, there are plenty of them knocking about.
In a separate interview for another BBC Radio 4 investigation, A Very British Cult, Stein said: "There's such a strong stereotype that the only cults are in California where people wear long orange robes... There is a cult in your neighbourhood."
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