Census Data

Bolton: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000001

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Key Facts

All Residents 295,963
Male 145,907
Female 150,056
Households 118,789
Population Density (people/km2) 2,117.0
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 295,967
Christian 139,144
Buddhist 576
Hindu 5,887
Jewish 159
Muslim 58,997
Sikh 219
No religion 76,246
No religion: Agnostic 76
No religion: Atheist 51
No religion: Free Thinker 2
No religion: Humanist 31
No religion: No religion 76,086
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 981
Other religion: Alevi 27
Other religion: Animism 0
Other religion: Baha'i 4
Other religion: Believe in God 5
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 2
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 4
Other religion: Druid 4
Other religion: Druze 2
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 24
Other religion: Jain 26
Other religion: Mixed Religion 39
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 1
Other religion: Occult 2
Other religion: Other religions 213
Other religion: Own Belief System 3
Other religion: Pagan 284
Other religion: Pantheism 2
Other religion: Rastafarian 13
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 2
Other religion: Satanism 21
Other religion: Scientology 6
Other religion: Shamanism 3
Other religion: Shintoism 1
Other religion: Spiritual 72
Other religion: Spiritualist 127
Other religion: Taoist 9
Other religion: Theism 1
Other religion: Thelemite 1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 2
Other religion: Unification Church 4
Other religion: Universalist 0
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 71
Other religion: Witchcraft 1
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 5
Religion not stated 13,758

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