Census Data

Leeds: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000035

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Key Facts

All Residents 811,956
Male 396,374
Female 415,579
Households 341,466
Population Density (people/km2) 1,471.7
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 811,950
Christian 343,311
Buddhist 2,874
Hindu 9,217
Jewish 6,267
Muslim 63,054
Sikh 10,047
No religion 326,230
No religion: Agnostic 536
No religion: Atheist 230
No religion: Free Thinker 1
No religion: Humanist 129
No religion: No religion 325,334
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 3,635
Other religion: Alevi 14
Other religion: Animism 10
Other religion: Baha'i 71
Other religion: Believe in God 35
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 17
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 14
Other religion: Druid 27
Other religion: Druze 1
Other religion: Eckankar 9
Other religion: Heathen 71
Other religion: Jain 64
Other religion: Mixed Religion 109
Other religion: Mysticism 4
Other religion: Native American Church 3
Other religion: New Age 4
Other religion: Occult 7
Other religion: Other religions 848
Other religion: Own Belief System 36
Other religion: Pagan 945
Other religion: Pantheism 37
Other religion: Rastafarian 73
Other religion: Ravidassia 41
Other religion: Reconstructionist 4
Other religion: Satanism 110
Other religion: Scientology 9
Other religion: Shamanism 7
Other religion: Shintoism 15
Other religion: Spiritual 414
Other religion: Spiritualist 312
Other religion: Taoist 55
Other religion: Theism 16
Other religion: Thelemite 4
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 12
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 9
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 4
Other religion: Wicca 174
Other religion: Witchcraft 13
Other religion: Yazidi 6
Other religion: Zoroastrian 31
Religion not stated 47,315

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