Census Data

Chorley: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Non-metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E07000118

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Key Facts

All Residents 117,732
Male 58,687
Female 59,045
Households 50,132
Population Density (people/km2) 580.6
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 117,736
Christian 72,438
Buddhist 286
Hindu 335
Jewish 59
Muslim 1,648
Sikh 59
No religion 36,384
No religion: Agnostic 47
No religion: Atheist 11
No religion: Free Thinker 3
No religion: Humanist 17
No religion: No religion 36,306
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 537
Other religion: Alevi 0
Other religion: Animism 4
Other religion: Baha'i 0
Other religion: Believe in God 9
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 3
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 13
Other religion: Jain 6
Other religion: Mixed Religion 23
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 102
Other religion: Own Belief System 8
Other religion: Pagan 186
Other religion: Pantheism 1
Other religion: Rastafarian 10
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 11
Other religion: Scientology 2
Other religion: Shamanism 1
Other religion: Shintoism 0
Other religion: Spiritual 39
Other religion: Spiritualist 73
Other religion: Taoist 5
Other religion: Theism 3
Other religion: Thelemite 1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 2
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 27
Other religion: Witchcraft 4
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 2
Religion not stated 5,990

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