Census Data

Basildon: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Non-metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E07000066

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Key Facts

All Residents 187,571
Male 91,067
Female 96,504
Households 76,363
Population Density (people/km2) 1,705.1
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 187,570
Christian 87,239
Buddhist 556
Hindu 2,326
Jewish 403
Muslim 3,381
Sikh 355
No religion 82,780
No religion: Agnostic 62
No religion: Atheist 24
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 10
No religion: No religion 82,684
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 732
Other religion: Alevi 25
Other religion: Animism 1
Other religion: Baha'i 3
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 2
Other religion: Druid 1
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 8
Other religion: Jain 21
Other religion: Mixed Religion 30
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 2
Other religion: Other religions 167
Other religion: Own Belief System 2
Other religion: Pagan 171
Other religion: Pantheism 4
Other religion: Rastafarian 6
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 11
Other religion: Scientology 3
Other religion: Shamanism 29
Other religion: Shintoism 1
Other religion: Spiritual 71
Other religion: Spiritualist 119
Other religion: Taoist 10
Other religion: Theism 2
Other religion: Thelemite 1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 1
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 1
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 32
Other religion: Witchcraft 5
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 2
Religion not stated 9,798

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