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
246,477
Christian
123,908
Buddhist
2,048
Hindu
7,516
Jewish
217
Muslim
9,721
Sikh
5,272
No religion
82,816
No religion: Agnostic
90
No religion: Atheist
41
No religion: Free Thinker
1
No religion: Humanist
26
No religion: No religion
82,658
No religion: Realist
0
Other religion
993
Other religion: Alevi
36
Other religion: Animism
0
Other religion: Baha'i
18
Other religion: Believe in God
9
Other religion: Brahma Kumari
0
Other religion: Chinese Religion
0
Other religion: Church of All Religion
0
Other religion: Confucianist
1
Other religion: Deist
1
Other religion: Druid
5
Other religion: Druze
0
Other religion: Eckankar
0
Other religion: Heathen
19
Other religion: Jain
39
Other religion: Mixed Religion
43
Other religion: Mysticism
1
Other religion: Native American Church
2
Other religion: New Age
2
Other religion: Occult
1
Other religion: Other religions
217
Other religion: Own Belief System
4
Other religion: Pagan
170
Other religion: Pantheism
2
Other religion: Rastafarian
11
Other religion: Ravidassia
72
Other religion: Reconstructionist
0
Other religion: Satanism
13
Other religion: Scientology
3
Other religion: Shamanism
16
Other religion: Shintoism
5
Other religion: Spiritual
94
Other religion: Spiritualist
116
Other religion: Taoist
27
Other religion: Theism
4
Other religion: Thelemite
1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion
4
Other religion: Unification Church
0
Other religion: Universalist
1
Other religion: Valmiki
0
Other religion: Vodun
2
Other religion: Wicca
39
Other religion: Witchcraft
2
Other religion: Yazidi
0
Other religion: Zoroastrian
13
Religion not stated
13,986
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