Census Data

Dorset: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Unitary Authorities, ONS Geographic Code: E06000059

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Key Facts

All Residents 379,579
Male 184,413
Female 195,166
Households 169,258
Population Density (people/km2) 152.4
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 379,583
Christian 195,676
Buddhist 1,613
Hindu 714
Jewish 453
Muslim 1,562
Sikh 117
No religion 152,268
No religion: Agnostic 202
No religion: Atheist 92
No religion: Free Thinker 4
No religion: Humanist 114
No religion: No religion 151,856
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 2,364
Other religion: Alevi 20
Other religion: Animism 6
Other religion: Baha'i 17
Other religion: Believe in God 10
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 10
Other religion: Druid 34
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 5
Other religion: Heathen 95
Other religion: Jain 5
Other religion: Mixed Religion 78
Other religion: Mysticism 1
Other religion: Native American Church 1
Other religion: New Age 4
Other religion: Occult 1
Other religion: Other religions 374
Other religion: Own Belief System 25
Other religion: Pagan 820
Other religion: Pantheism 34
Other religion: Rastafarian 15
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 2
Other religion: Satanism 19
Other religion: Scientology 11
Other religion: Shamanism 63
Other religion: Shintoism 7
Other religion: Spiritual 302
Other religion: Spiritualist 258
Other religion: Taoist 26
Other religion: Theism 8
Other religion: Thelemite 2
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 11
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 1
Other religion: Wicca 83
Other religion: Witchcraft 11
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 5
Religion not stated 24,816

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