Census Data

Kirklees: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000034

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Key Facts

All Residents 433,216
Male 212,346
Female 220,870
Households 177,990
Population Density (people/km2) 1,060.3
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 433,217
Christian 170,577
Buddhist 996
Hindu 1,723
Jewish 187
Muslim 80,046
Sikh 3,476
No religion 150,598
No religion: Agnostic 130
No religion: Atheist 77
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 63
No religion: No religion 150,328
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 1,665
Other religion: Alevi 17
Other religion: Animism 6
Other religion: Baha'i 23
Other religion: Believe in God 9
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 6
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 1
Other religion: Deist 5
Other religion: Druid 10
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 38
Other religion: Jain 19
Other religion: Mixed Religion 37
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 1
Other religion: Occult 4
Other religion: Other religions 369
Other religion: Own Belief System 9
Other religion: Pagan 451
Other religion: Pantheism 5
Other religion: Rastafarian 41
Other religion: Ravidassia 27
Other religion: Reconstructionist 4
Other religion: Satanism 37
Other religion: Scientology 7
Other religion: Shamanism 6
Other religion: Shintoism 6
Other religion: Spiritual 158
Other religion: Spiritualist 201
Other religion: Taoist 27
Other religion: Theism 10
Other religion: Thelemite 3
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 2
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 1
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 111
Other religion: Witchcraft 7
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 7
Religion not stated 23,949

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