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Doncaster: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000017

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Key Facts

All Residents 308,106
Male 152,826
Female 155,280
Households 133,479
Population Density (people/km2) 542.4
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 308,107
Christian 156,747
Buddhist 821
Hindu 1,294
Jewish 116
Muslim 6,898
Sikh 1,391
No religion 122,645
No religion: Agnostic 99
No religion: Atheist 63
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 31
No religion: No religion 122,451
No religion: Realist 1
Other religion 1,725
Other religion: Alevi 335
Other religion: Animism 2
Other religion: Baha'i 7
Other religion: Believe in God 5
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 4
Other religion: Druid 12
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 40
Other religion: Jain 3
Other religion: Mixed Religion 31
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 1
Other religion: New Age 2
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 277
Other religion: Own Belief System 9
Other religion: Pagan 331
Other religion: Pantheism 8
Other religion: Rastafarian 24
Other religion: Ravidassia 3
Other religion: Reconstructionist 1
Other religion: Satanism 38
Other religion: Scientology 1
Other religion: Shamanism 105
Other religion: Shintoism 3
Other religion: Spiritual 95
Other religion: Spiritualist 281
Other religion: Taoist 4
Other religion: Theism 0
Other religion: Thelemite 3
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 2
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 83
Other religion: Witchcraft 8
Other religion: Yazidi 3
Other religion: Zoroastrian 4
Religion not stated 16,470

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