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Town: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Electoral Wards/Divisions, ONS Geographic Code: E05010747

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Key Facts

All Residents 22,263
Male 12,194
Female 10,069
Households 9,938
Population Density (people/km2) 3,616.8
Table Codets031
Issued2022-11-29
Unit of MeasurePerson
Number of Response Options58

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in England and Wales by religion. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Summary

The religion people connect or identify with (their religious affiliation), whether or not they practice or have belief in it.

This question was voluntary and the variable includes people who answered the question, including ‘No Religion’, alongside those who chose not to answer this question.

This variable classifies responses into the eight tick-box response options. Write-in responses are classified by their "parent" religious affiliation, including "No Religion", where applicable.

Religion (detailed): Total: All Usual Residents 22,259
Christian 10,234
Buddhist 111
Hindu 131
Jewish 15
Muslim 2,909
Sikh 274
No religion 7,090
No religion: Agnostic 11
No religion: Atheist 12
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 8
No religion: No religion 7,058
No religion: Realist 1
Other religion 168
Other religion: Alevi 35
Other religion: Animism 0
Other religion: Baha'i 0
Other religion: Believe in God 0
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 3
Other religion: Druid 0
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 0
Other religion: Jain 0
Other religion: Mixed Religion 5
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 28
Other religion: Own Belief System 2
Other religion: Pagan 35
Other religion: Pantheism 3
Other religion: Rastafarian 9
Other religion: Ravidassia 3
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 3
Other religion: Scientology 0
Other religion: Shamanism 10
Other religion: Shintoism 0
Other religion: Spiritual 5
Other religion: Spiritualist 17
Other religion: Taoist 0
Other religion: Theism 0
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 0
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 9
Other religion: Witchcraft 0
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 1
Religion not stated 1,327

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