Census Data

Wakefield: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000036

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Key Facts

All Residents 353,368
Male 173,831
Female 179,539
Households 153,076
Population Density (people/km2) 1,043.6
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 353,367
Christian 173,070
Buddhist 797
Hindu 1,270
Jewish 127
Muslim 11,279
Sikh 501
No religion 145,949
No religion: Agnostic 113
No religion: Atheist 65
No religion: Free Thinker 1
No religion: Humanist 19
No religion: No religion 145,751
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 1,402
Other religion: Alevi 2
Other religion: Animism 1
Other religion: Baha'i 6
Other religion: Believe in God 7
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 4
Other religion: Chinese Religion 1
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 2
Other religion: Druid 11
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 41
Other religion: Jain 3
Other religion: Mixed Religion 26
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 1
Other religion: New Age 1
Other religion: Occult 4
Other religion: Other religions 277
Other religion: Own Belief System 8
Other religion: Pagan 449
Other religion: Pantheism 7
Other religion: Rastafarian 19
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 3
Other religion: Satanism 32
Other religion: Scientology 3
Other religion: Shamanism 1
Other religion: Shintoism 2
Other religion: Spiritual 96
Other religion: Spiritualist 279
Other religion: Taoist 12
Other religion: Theism 2
Other religion: Thelemite 1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 1
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 5
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 0
Other religion: Wicca 81
Other religion: Witchcraft 5
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 9
Religion not stated 18,972

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