Census Data

Knowsley: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000011

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Key Facts

All Residents 154,519
Male 73,849
Female 80,668
Households 66,073
Population Density (people/km2) 1,787.0
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 154,519
Christian 102,929
Buddhist 260
Hindu 456
Jewish 86
Muslim 968
Sikh 65
No religion 42,001
No religion: Agnostic 33
No religion: Atheist 20
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 6
No religion: No religion 41,942
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 285
Other religion: Alevi 13
Other religion: Animism 0
Other religion: Baha'i 10
Other religion: Believe in God 0
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 1
Other religion: Druid 6
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 11
Other religion: Jain 0
Other religion: Mixed Religion 2
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 3
Other religion: Other religions 75
Other religion: Own Belief System 2
Other religion: Pagan 72
Other religion: Pantheism 6
Other religion: Rastafarian 1
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 1
Other religion: Satanism 6
Other religion: Scientology 1
Other religion: Shamanism 0
Other religion: Shintoism 1
Other religion: Spiritual 28
Other religion: Spiritualist 18
Other religion: Taoist 6
Other religion: Theism 0
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 0
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 22
Other religion: Witchcraft 0
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 0
Religion not stated 7,469

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