Census Data

Oldham: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000004

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Key Facts

All Residents 242,088
Male 118,323
Female 123,766
Households 93,137
Population Density (people/km2) 1,700.5
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 242,083
Christian 108,720
Buddhist 468
Hindu 1,222
Jewish 146
Muslim 59,031
Sikh 132
No religion 60,504
No religion: Agnostic 54
No religion: Atheist 26
No religion: Free Thinker 1
No religion: Humanist 18
No religion: No religion 60,404
No religion: Realist 1
Other religion 587
Other religion: Alevi 3
Other religion: Animism 0
Other religion: Baha'i 3
Other religion: Believe in God 6
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 1
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 4
Other religion: Druid 4
Other religion: Druze 1
Other religion: Eckankar 2
Other religion: Heathen 7
Other religion: Jain 7
Other religion: Mixed Religion 9
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 138
Other religion: Own Belief System 3
Other religion: Pagan 159
Other religion: Pantheism 5
Other religion: Rastafarian 38
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 3
Other religion: Satanism 10
Other religion: Scientology 3
Other religion: Shamanism 0
Other religion: Shintoism 2
Other religion: Spiritual 60
Other religion: Spiritualist 68
Other religion: Taoist 7
Other religion: Theism 3
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 1
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 37
Other religion: Witchcraft 1
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 2
Religion not stated 11,273

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