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Mendip: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Non-metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E07000187

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Key Facts

All Residents 116,089
Male 56,386
Female 59,703
Households 50,294
Population Density (people/km2) 157.0
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 116,088
Christian 54,485
Buddhist 601
Hindu 173
Jewish 151
Muslim 338
Sikh 28
No religion 50,786
No religion: Agnostic 70
No religion: Atheist 38
No religion: Free Thinker 1
No religion: Humanist 47
No religion: No religion 50,630
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 1,407
Other religion: Alevi 0
Other religion: Animism 11
Other religion: Baha'i 11
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 2
Other religion: Druid 31
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 23
Other religion: Jain 1
Other religion: Mixed Religion 55
Other religion: Mysticism 11
Other religion: Native American Church 3
Other religion: New Age 6
Other religion: Occult 4
Other religion: Other religions 216
Other religion: Own Belief System 16
Other religion: Pagan 628
Other religion: Pantheism 22
Other religion: Rastafarian 9
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 11
Other religion: Scientology 1
Other religion: Shamanism 8
Other religion: Shintoism 4
Other religion: Spiritual 194
Other religion: Spiritualist 58
Other religion: Taoist 25
Other religion: Theism 2
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 9
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 33
Other religion: Witchcraft 3
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 3
Religion not stated 8,119

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