Census Data

Cherwell: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Non-metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E07000177

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Key Facts

All Residents 161,016
Male 79,904
Female 81,112
Households 65,894
Population Density (people/km2) 273.5
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 161,020
Christian 80,987
Buddhist 900
Hindu 1,243
Jewish 200
Muslim 5,206
Sikh 622
No religion 61,284
No religion: Agnostic 86
No religion: Atheist 46
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 36
No religion: No religion 61,116
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 825
Other religion: Alevi 3
Other religion: Animism 0
Other religion: Baha'i 7
Other religion: Believe in God 13
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 2
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 4
Other religion: Druid 10
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 23
Other religion: Jain 24
Other religion: Mixed Religion 28
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 1
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 3
Other religion: Other religions 207
Other religion: Own Belief System 2
Other religion: Pagan 205
Other religion: Pantheism 9
Other religion: Rastafarian 19
Other religion: Ravidassia 5
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 13
Other religion: Scientology 2
Other religion: Shamanism 20
Other religion: Shintoism 3
Other religion: Spiritual 70
Other religion: Spiritualist 88
Other religion: Taoist 8
Other religion: Theism 2
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 1
Other religion: Valmiki 1
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 37
Other religion: Witchcraft 7
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 8
Religion not stated 9,753

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