Census Data

Ashfield: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Non-metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E07000170

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Key Facts

All Residents 126,300
Male 61,859
Female 64,441
Households 54,507
Population Density (people/km2) 1,152.8
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 126,302
Christian 53,095
Buddhist 250
Hindu 418
Jewish 40
Muslim 762
Sikh 294
No religion 63,479
No religion: Agnostic 58
No religion: Atheist 37
No religion: Free Thinker 1
No religion: Humanist 17
No religion: No religion 63,366
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 597
Other religion: Alevi 0
Other religion: Animism 1
Other religion: Baha'i 6
Other religion: Believe in God 7
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 4
Other religion: Druid 9
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 20
Other religion: Jain 0
Other religion: Mixed Religion 15
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 100
Other religion: Own Belief System 2
Other religion: Pagan 239
Other religion: Pantheism 3
Other religion: Rastafarian 6
Other religion: Ravidassia 2
Other religion: Reconstructionist 2
Other religion: Satanism 15
Other religion: Scientology 0
Other religion: Shamanism 1
Other religion: Shintoism 2
Other religion: Spiritual 33
Other religion: Spiritualist 87
Other religion: Taoist 9
Other religion: Theism 3
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 27
Other religion: Witchcraft 3
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 1
Religion not stated 7,367

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