Census Data

Greater Manchester: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E11000001

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Key Facts

All Residents 2,867,762
Male 1,412,734
Female 1,455,031
Households 1,178,238

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Metropolitan Counties. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within Greater Manchester. They may not, therefore, be precisely accurate. Age-standardised statistics and population density are not available for aggregated datasets.

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 2,867,755
Christian 1,347,104
Buddhist 9,529
Hindu 27,892
Jewish 28,075
Muslim 373,877
Sikh 7,353
No religion 915,587
No religion: Agnostic 1,268
No religion: Atheist 525
No religion: Free Thinker 10
No religion: Humanist 347
No religion: No religion 913,436
No religion: Realist 1
Other religion 10,797
Other religion: Alevi 101
Other religion: Animism 26
Other religion: Baha'i 244
Other religion: Believe in God 79
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 8
Other religion: Chinese Religion 5
Other religion: Church of All Religion 2
Other religion: Confucianist 3
Other religion: Deist 36
Other religion: Druid 69
Other religion: Druze 17
Other religion: Eckankar 10
Other religion: Heathen 173
Other religion: Jain 554
Other religion: Mixed Religion 288
Other religion: Mysticism 2
Other religion: Native American Church 1
Other religion: New Age 17
Other religion: Occult 17
Other religion: Other religions 2,524
Other religion: Own Belief System 78
Other religion: Pagan 2,650
Other religion: Pantheism 71
Other religion: Rastafarian 211
Other religion: Ravidassia 23
Other religion: Reconstructionist 27
Other religion: Satanism 236
Other religion: Scientology 58
Other religion: Shamanism 43
Other religion: Shintoism 34
Other religion: Spiritual 1,118
Other religion: Spiritualist 1,098
Other religion: Taoist 137
Other religion: Theism 34
Other religion: Thelemite 9
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 37
Other religion: Unification Church 21
Other religion: Universalist 10
Other religion: Valmiki 1
Other religion: Vodun 10
Other religion: Wicca 508
Other religion: Witchcraft 39
Other religion: Yazidi 47
Other religion: Zoroastrian 121
Religion not stated 147,541

These values are calculated by adding up the values for census output areas contained within Greater Manchester. They may, therefore, be slightly inaccurate due to administrative boundaries not precisely aligning with census boundaries.

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