Census Data

Rotherham: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000018

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Key Facts

All Residents 265,807
Male 130,260
Female 135,547
Households 113,925
Population Density (people/km2) 927.7
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 265,811
Christian 130,147
Buddhist 542
Hindu 666
Jewish 81
Muslim 13,465
Sikh 461
No religion 105,822
No religion: Agnostic 81
No religion: Atheist 41
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 30
No religion: No religion 105,670
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 935
Other religion: Alevi 38
Other religion: Animism 3
Other religion: Baha'i 9
Other religion: Believe in God 6
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 11
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 26
Other religion: Jain 3
Other religion: Mixed Religion 4
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 1
Other religion: Other religions 203
Other religion: Own Belief System 6
Other religion: Pagan 268
Other religion: Pantheism 2
Other religion: Rastafarian 3
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 0
Other religion: Satanism 21
Other religion: Scientology 3
Other religion: Shamanism 2
Other religion: Shintoism 1
Other religion: Spiritual 61
Other religion: Spiritualist 174
Other religion: Taoist 4
Other religion: Theism 4
Other religion: Thelemite 1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 0
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 2
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 2
Other religion: Wicca 71
Other religion: Witchcraft 2
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 3
Religion not stated 13,692

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