Census Data

Tower Hamlets: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: London Boroughs, ONS Geographic Code: E09000030

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Key Facts

All Residents 310,306
Male 155,869
Female 154,437
Households 120,539
Population Density (people/km2) 15,702.9
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 310,307
Christian 69,223
Buddhist 2,961
Hindu 6,298
Jewish 1,341
Muslim 123,912
Sikh 966
No religion 82,635
No religion: Agnostic 295
No religion: Atheist 92
No religion: Free Thinker 0
No religion: Humanist 31
No religion: No religion 82,217
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 1,653
Other religion: Alevi 94
Other religion: Animism 10
Other religion: Baha'i 30
Other religion: Believe in God 15
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 4
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 7
Other religion: Druid 8
Other religion: Druze 4
Other religion: Eckankar 1
Other religion: Heathen 5
Other religion: Jain 152
Other religion: Mixed Religion 59
Other religion: Mysticism 0
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 0
Other religion: Occult 1
Other religion: Other religions 450
Other religion: Own Belief System 22
Other religion: Pagan 147
Other religion: Pantheism 13
Other religion: Rastafarian 44
Other religion: Ravidassia 6
Other religion: Reconstructionist 7
Other religion: Satanism 28
Other religion: Scientology 7
Other religion: Shamanism 2
Other religion: Shintoism 21
Other religion: Spiritual 283
Other religion: Spiritualist 75
Other religion: Taoist 42
Other religion: Theism 10
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 13
Other religion: Unification Church 0
Other religion: Universalist 8
Other religion: Valmiki 1
Other religion: Vodun 7
Other religion: Wicca 31
Other religion: Witchcraft 6
Other religion: Yazidi 2
Other religion: Zoroastrian 38
Religion not stated 21,318

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