Census Data

Gateshead: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000037

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Key Facts

All Residents 196,151
Male 96,199
Female 99,952
Households 88,999
Population Density (people/km2) 1,378.0
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 196,153
Christian 99,572
Buddhist 469
Hindu 522
Jewish 2,905
Muslim 4,126
Sikh 386
No religion 78,572
No religion: Agnostic 64
No religion: Atheist 42
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 16
No religion: No religion 78,450
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 797
Other religion: Alevi 28
Other religion: Animism 1
Other religion: Baha'i 15
Other religion: Believe in God 1
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 10
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 0
Other religion: Heathen 25
Other religion: Jain 9
Other religion: Mixed Religion 20
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 1
Other religion: New Age 3
Other religion: Occult 2
Other religion: Other religions 164
Other religion: Own Belief System 6
Other religion: Pagan 190
Other religion: Pantheism 5
Other religion: Rastafarian 4
Other religion: Ravidassia 0
Other religion: Reconstructionist 4
Other religion: Satanism 22
Other religion: Scientology 4
Other religion: Shamanism 1
Other religion: Shintoism 2
Other religion: Spiritual 59
Other religion: Spiritualist 133
Other religion: Taoist 10
Other religion: Theism 3
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 1
Other religion: Unification Church 2
Other religion: Universalist 2
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 1
Other religion: Wicca 54
Other religion: Witchcraft 1
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 13
Religion not stated 8,804

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