Census Data

West Midlands: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E11000005

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Key Facts

All Residents 2,919,653
Male 1,433,051
Female 1,486,603
Households 1,131,763

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Metropolitan Counties. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within West Midlands. 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 2,919,647
Christian 1,189,066
Buddhist 9,380
Hindu 68,376
Jewish 2,559
Muslim 501,480
Sikh 148,937
No religion 814,367
No religion: Agnostic 1,012
No religion: Atheist 416
No religion: Free Thinker 10
No religion: Humanist 257
No religion: No religion 812,669
No religion: Realist 3
Other religion 17,797
Other religion: Alevi 75
Other religion: Animism 23
Other religion: Baha'i 157
Other religion: Believe in God 126
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 10
Other religion: Chinese Religion 1
Other religion: Church of All Religion 1
Other religion: Confucianist 2
Other religion: Deist 34
Other religion: Druid 68
Other religion: Druze 2
Other religion: Eckankar 15
Other religion: Heathen 203
Other religion: Jain 453
Other religion: Mixed Religion 623
Other religion: Mysticism 2
Other religion: Native American Church 3
Other religion: New Age 10
Other religion: Occult 17
Other religion: Other religions 2,813
Other religion: Own Belief System 87
Other religion: Pagan 2,719
Other religion: Pantheism 66
Other religion: Rastafarian 712
Other religion: Ravidassia 5,512
Other religion: Reconstructionist 31
Other religion: Satanism 180
Other religion: Scientology 77
Other religion: Shamanism 73
Other religion: Shintoism 27
Other religion: Spiritual 1,020
Other religion: Spiritualist 1,243
Other religion: Taoist 128
Other religion: Theism 22
Other religion: Thelemite 6
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 29
Other religion: Unification Church 6
Other religion: Universalist 16
Other religion: Valmiki 463
Other religion: Vodun 9
Other religion: Wicca 530
Other religion: Witchcraft 36
Other religion: Yazidi 40
Other religion: Zoroastrian 127
Religion not stated 167,685

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

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