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Walsall: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000030

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Key Facts

All Residents 284,124
Male 138,657
Female 145,467
Households 112,226
Population Density (people/km2) 2,733.1
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 284,124
Christian 126,921
Buddhist 533
Hindu 5,096
Jewish 74
Muslim 32,107
Sikh 17,148
No religion 85,820
No religion: Agnostic 62
No religion: Atheist 27
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 12
No religion: No religion 85,719
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 1,657
Other religion: Alevi 1
Other religion: Animism 1
Other religion: Baha'i 5
Other religion: Believe in God 8
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 1
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 1
Other religion: Deist 4
Other religion: Druid 3
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 2
Other religion: Heathen 33
Other religion: Jain 31
Other religion: Mixed Religion 45
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 2
Other religion: Other religions 251
Other religion: Own Belief System 4
Other religion: Pagan 255
Other religion: Pantheism 2
Other religion: Rastafarian 36
Other religion: Ravidassia 661
Other religion: Reconstructionist 1
Other religion: Satanism 12
Other religion: Scientology 8
Other religion: Shamanism 1
Other religion: Shintoism 0
Other religion: Spiritual 64
Other religion: Spiritualist 143
Other religion: Taoist 7
Other religion: Theism 4
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 1
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 0
Other religion: Valmiki 3
Other religion: Vodun 1
Other religion: Wicca 60
Other religion: Witchcraft 2
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 4
Religion not stated 14,768

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