Census Data

Melton: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Non-metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E07000133

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Key Facts

All Residents 51,752
Male 25,256
Female 26,496
Households 22,597
Population Density (people/km2) 107.5
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 51,755
Christian 27,771
Buddhist 148
Hindu 200
Jewish 28
Muslim 130
Sikh 70
No religion 20,364
No religion: Agnostic 31
No religion: Atheist 16
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 6
No religion: No religion 20,311
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 183
Other religion: Alevi 7
Other religion: Animism 0
Other religion: Baha'i 0
Other religion: Believe in God 4
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 1
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 1
Other religion: Heathen 1
Other religion: Jain 0
Other religion: Mixed Religion 2
Other religion: Mysticism 1
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 38
Other religion: Own Belief System 1
Other religion: Pagan 77
Other religion: Pantheism 5
Other religion: Rastafarian 0
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 2
Other religion: Scientology 0
Other religion: Shamanism 0
Other religion: Shintoism 0
Other religion: Spiritual 16
Other religion: Spiritualist 16
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 0
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 9
Other religion: Witchcraft 1
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 0
Religion not stated 2,861

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