Census Data

Merseyside: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E11000002

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Key Facts

All Residents 1,423,287
Male 690,711
Female 732,574
Households 620,902

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Metropolitan Counties. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within Merseyside. 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 1,423,288
Christian 851,424
Buddhist 4,585
Hindu 7,356
Jewish 2,576
Muslim 33,578
Sikh 1,204
No religion 441,535
No religion: Agnostic 649
No religion: Atheist 283
No religion: Free Thinker 3
No religion: Humanist 177
No religion: No religion 440,421
No religion: Realist 2
Other religion 5,163
Other religion: Alevi 192
Other religion: Animism 3
Other religion: Baha'i 71
Other religion: Believe in God 34
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 1
Other religion: Chinese Religion 21
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 0
Other religion: Deist 13
Other religion: Druid 46
Other religion: Druze 6
Other religion: Eckankar 11
Other religion: Heathen 95
Other religion: Jain 27
Other religion: Mixed Religion 112
Other religion: Mysticism 2
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 3
Other religion: Occult 13
Other religion: Other religions 1,106
Other religion: Own Belief System 40
Other religion: Pagan 1,466
Other religion: Pantheism 49
Other religion: Rastafarian 57
Other religion: Ravidassia 5
Other religion: Reconstructionist 18
Other religion: Satanism 111
Other religion: Scientology 14
Other religion: Shamanism 9
Other religion: Shintoism 18
Other religion: Spiritual 562
Other religion: Spiritualist 553
Other religion: Taoist 80
Other religion: Theism 40
Other religion: Thelemite 5
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 6
Other religion: Unification Church 1
Other religion: Universalist 15
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 10
Other religion: Wicca 293
Other religion: Witchcraft 22
Other religion: Yazidi 6
Other religion: Zoroastrian 27
Religion not stated 75,867

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

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