Census Data

Manchester: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000003

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Key Facts

All Residents 551,938
Male 274,061
Female 277,877
Households 214,729
Population Density (people/km2) 4,772.7
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 551,943
Christian 199,873
Buddhist 3,219
Hindu 6,048
Jewish 2,632
Muslim 122,962
Sikh 2,718
No religion 179,037
No religion: Agnostic 402
No religion: Atheist 150
No religion: Free Thinker 3
No religion: Humanist 86
No religion: No religion 178,396
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 2,741
Other religion: Alevi 43
Other religion: Animism 6
Other religion: Baha'i 66
Other religion: Believe in God 27
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 3
Other religion: Chinese Religion 2
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 2
Other religion: Deist 15
Other religion: Druid 12
Other religion: Druze 2
Other religion: Eckankar 6
Other religion: Heathen 21
Other religion: Jain 191
Other religion: Mixed Religion 74
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 1
Other religion: New Age 4
Other religion: Occult 6
Other religion: Other religions 658
Other religion: Own Belief System 22
Other religion: Pagan 516
Other religion: Pantheism 16
Other religion: Rastafarian 93
Other religion: Ravidassia 15
Other religion: Reconstructionist 7
Other religion: Satanism 75
Other religion: Scientology 22
Other religion: Shamanism 17
Other religion: Shintoism 8
Other religion: Spiritual 370
Other religion: Spiritualist 179
Other religion: Taoist 40
Other religion: Theism 15
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 14
Other religion: Unification Church 4
Other religion: Universalist 3
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 6
Other religion: Wicca 105
Other religion: Witchcraft 10
Other religion: Yazidi 18
Other religion: Zoroastrian 47
Religion not stated 32,713

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