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
263,729
Christian
115,640
Buddhist
915
Hindu
9,882
Jewish
94
Muslim
14,489
Sikh
31,769
No religion
73,317
No religion: Agnostic
79
No religion: Atheist
30
No religion: Free Thinker
0
No religion: Humanist
20
No religion: No religion
73,187
No religion: Realist
1
Other religion
3,158
Other religion: Alevi
0
Other religion: Animism
2
Other religion: Baha'i
7
Other religion: Believe in God
18
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
9
Other religion: Druze
0
Other religion: Eckankar
1
Other religion: Heathen
24
Other religion: Jain
21
Other religion: Mixed Religion
64
Other religion: Mysticism
0
Other religion: Native American Church
0
Other religion: New Age
2
Other religion: Occult
3
Other religion: Other religions
272
Other religion: Own Belief System
4
Other religion: Pagan
267
Other religion: Pantheism
7
Other religion: Rastafarian
91
Other religion: Ravidassia
1,903
Other religion: Reconstructionist
2
Other religion: Satanism
16
Other religion: Scientology
1
Other religion: Shamanism
12
Other religion: Shintoism
1
Other religion: Spiritual
85
Other religion: Spiritualist
135
Other religion: Taoist
13
Other religion: Theism
1
Other religion: Thelemite
1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion
1
Other religion: Unification Church
0
Other religion: Universalist
3
Other religion: Valmiki
119
Other religion: Vodun
1
Other religion: Wicca
58
Other religion: Witchcraft
5
Other religion: Yazidi
1
Other religion: Zoroastrian
7
Religion not stated
14,465
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