Census Data

Commons: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Electoral Wards/Divisions, ONS Geographic Code: E05012659

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Key Facts

All Residents 10,334
Male 4,961
Female 5,374
Households 4,320
Population Density (people/km2) 370.5
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 10,334
Christian 5,250
Buddhist 32
Hindu 18
Jewish 25
Muslim 46
Sikh 2
No religion 4,191
No religion: Agnostic 4
No religion: Atheist 3
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 1
No religion: No religion 4,183
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 83
Other religion: Alevi 12
Other religion: Animism 0
Other religion: Baha'i 0
Other religion: Believe in God 1
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 1
Other religion: Druid 0
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 1
Other religion: Jain 0
Other religion: Mixed Religion 4
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 10
Other religion: Own Belief System 0
Other religion: Pagan 15
Other religion: Pantheism 1
Other religion: Rastafarian 0
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 0
Other religion: Scientology 2
Other religion: Shamanism 0
Other religion: Shintoism 0
Other religion: Spiritual 7
Other religion: Spiritualist 20
Other religion: Taoist 1
Other religion: Theism 0
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 1
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 5
Other religion: Witchcraft 0
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 2
Religion not stated 687

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