Census Data

Sandwell: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000028

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Key Facts

All Residents 341,832
Male 168,255
Female 173,577
Households 130,244
Population Density (people/km2) 3,994.9
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 341,831
Christian 136,354
Buddhist 943
Hindu 9,447
Jewish 79
Muslim 45,763
Sikh 39,252
No religion 89,099
No religion: Agnostic 84
No religion: Atheist 34
No religion: Free Thinker 2
No religion: Humanist 14
No religion: No religion 88,965
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 2,429
Other religion: Alevi 21
Other religion: Animism 5
Other religion: Baha'i 3
Other religion: Believe in God 10
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 4
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 2
Other religion: Druid 4
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 1
Other religion: Heathen 19
Other religion: Jain 18
Other religion: Mixed Religion 74
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 1
Other religion: New Age 1
Other religion: Occult 3
Other religion: Other religions 336
Other religion: Own Belief System 3
Other religion: Pagan 277
Other religion: Pantheism 5
Other religion: Rastafarian 85
Other religion: Ravidassia 1,004
Other religion: Reconstructionist 1
Other religion: Satanism 17
Other religion: Scientology 13
Other religion: Shamanism 14
Other religion: Shintoism 2
Other religion: Spiritual 106
Other religion: Spiritualist 165
Other religion: Taoist 14
Other religion: Theism 3
Other religion: Thelemite 1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 6
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 2
Other religion: Valmiki 130
Other religion: Vodun 2
Other religion: Wicca 72
Other religion: Witchcraft 0
Other religion: Yazidi 1
Other religion: Zoroastrian 4
Religion not stated 18,465

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