Census Data

Merton: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: London Boroughs, ONS Geographic Code: E09000024

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Key Facts

All Residents 215,186
Male 104,656
Female 110,531
Households 81,729
Population Density (people/km2) 5,721.6
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 215,185
Christian 101,320
Buddhist 1,899
Hindu 12,610
Jewish 754
Muslim 21,673
Sikh 614
No religion 60,224
No religion: Agnostic 157
No religion: Atheist 60
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 32
No religion: No religion 59,975
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 1,203
Other religion: Alevi 41
Other religion: Animism 3
Other religion: Baha'i 32
Other religion: Believe in God 20
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 6
Other religion: Druid 8
Other religion: Druze 7
Other religion: Eckankar 1
Other religion: Heathen 7
Other religion: Jain 114
Other religion: Mixed Religion 79
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 0
Other religion: Other religions 321
Other religion: Own Belief System 13
Other religion: Pagan 118
Other religion: Pantheism 9
Other religion: Rastafarian 28
Other religion: Ravidassia 1
Other religion: Reconstructionist 2
Other religion: Satanism 11
Other religion: Scientology 2
Other religion: Shamanism 4
Other religion: Shintoism 13
Other religion: Spiritual 158
Other religion: Spiritualist 88
Other religion: Taoist 17
Other religion: Theism 4
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 9
Other religion: Unification Church 4
Other religion: Universalist 0
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 6
Other religion: Wicca 24
Other religion: Witchcraft 3
Other religion: Yazidi 0
Other religion: Zoroastrian 50
Religion not stated 14,888

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