Census Data

Forest: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Electoral Wards/Divisions, ONS Geographic Code: E05011818

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Key Facts

All Residents 8,923
Male 4,366
Female 4,557
Households 3,670
Population Density (people/km2) 2,068.2
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 8,922
Christian 3,849
Buddhist 60
Hindu 97
Jewish 15
Muslim 181
Sikh 9
No religion 4,139
No religion: Agnostic 3
No religion: Atheist 0
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 6
No religion: No religion 4,130
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 50
Other religion: Alevi 0
Other religion: Animism 0
Other religion: Baha'i 1
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 0
Other religion: Druid 1
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 0
Other religion: Jain 6
Other religion: Mixed Religion 2
Other religion: Mysticism 1
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 6
Other religion: Own Belief System 3
Other religion: Pagan 13
Other religion: Pantheism 0
Other religion: Rastafarian 1
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 0
Other religion: Scientology 0
Other religion: Shamanism 0
Other religion: Shintoism 0
Other religion: Spiritual 6
Other religion: Spiritualist 2
Other religion: Taoist 0
Other religion: Theism 1
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 1
Other religion: Witchcraft 0
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 6
Religion not stated 522

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