Census Data

Wigan: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000010

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Key Facts

All Residents 329,330
Male 162,997
Female 166,333
Households 143,105
Population Density (people/km2) 1,750.0
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 329,333
Christian 206,870
Buddhist 831
Hindu 995
Jewish 84
Muslim 4,155
Sikh 122
No religion 99,784
No religion: Agnostic 84
No religion: Atheist 42
No religion: Free Thinker 3
No religion: Humanist 24
No religion: No religion 99,631
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 1,102
Other religion: Alevi 11
Other religion: Animism 5
Other religion: Baha'i 7
Other religion: Believe in God 8
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 16
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 26
Other religion: Jain 0
Other religion: Mixed Religion 16
Other religion: Mysticism 1
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 1
Other religion: Other religions 249
Other religion: Own Belief System 13
Other religion: Pagan 362
Other religion: Pantheism 10
Other religion: Rastafarian 7
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 4
Other religion: Satanism 25
Other religion: Scientology 1
Other religion: Shamanism 1
Other religion: Shintoism 7
Other religion: Spiritual 83
Other religion: Spiritualist 144
Other religion: Taoist 11
Other religion: Theism 1
Other religion: Thelemite 1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 4
Other religion: Unification Church 3
Other religion: Universalist 1
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 1
Other religion: Wicca 55
Other religion: Witchcraft 6
Other religion: Yazidi 15
Other religion: Zoroastrian 5
Religion not stated 15,390

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