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Epping Forest: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Non-metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E07000072

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Key Facts

All Residents 134,980
Male 65,591
Female 69,389
Households 54,557
Population Density (people/km2) 398.2
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 134,980
Christian 66,733
Buddhist 512
Hindu 2,848
Jewish 4,376
Muslim 4,699
Sikh 1,847
No religion 44,976
No religion: Agnostic 68
No religion: Atheist 22
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 22
No religion: No religion 44,863
No religion: Realist 1
Other religion 869
Other religion: Alevi 261
Other religion: Animism 1
Other religion: Baha'i 21
Other religion: Believe in God 6
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 2
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 6
Other religion: Jain 61
Other religion: Mixed Religion 52
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 131
Other religion: Own Belief System 1
Other religion: Pagan 130
Other religion: Pantheism 5
Other religion: Rastafarian 5
Other religion: Ravidassia 5
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 3
Other religion: Scientology 2
Other religion: Shamanism 0
Other religion: Shintoism 1
Other religion: Spiritual 71
Other religion: Spiritualist 56
Other religion: Taoist 11
Other religion: Theism 3
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 16
Other religion: Witchcraft 3
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 15
Religion not stated 8,120

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