Census Data

West Yorkshire: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E11000006

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Key Facts

All Residents 2,351,583
Male 1,150,725
Female 1,200,857
Households 972,875

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Metropolitan Counties. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within West Yorkshire. 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 2,351,571
Christian 955,201
Buddhist 6,256
Hindu 18,140
Jewish 6,988
Muslim 340,875
Sikh 19,245
No religion 863,869
No religion: Agnostic 1,048
No religion: Atheist 535
No religion: Free Thinker 6
No religion: Humanist 335
No religion: No religion 861,945
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 9,816
Other religion: Alevi 45
Other religion: Animism 31
Other religion: Baha'i 139
Other religion: Believe in God 88
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 24
Other religion: Chinese Religion 7
Other religion: Church of All Religion 2
Other religion: Confucianist 1
Other religion: Deist 31
Other religion: Druid 80
Other religion: Druze 2
Other religion: Eckankar 9
Other religion: Heathen 207
Other religion: Jain 116
Other religion: Mixed Religion 234
Other religion: Mysticism 5
Other religion: Native American Church 4
Other religion: New Age 11
Other religion: Occult 23
Other religion: Other religions 2,172
Other religion: Own Belief System 106
Other religion: Pagan 2,685
Other religion: Pantheism 78
Other religion: Rastafarian 196
Other religion: Ravidassia 246
Other religion: Reconstructionist 18
Other religion: Satanism 250
Other religion: Scientology 26
Other religion: Shamanism 19
Other religion: Shintoism 32
Other religion: Spiritual 894
Other religion: Spiritualist 1,192
Other religion: Taoist 129
Other religion: Theism 29
Other religion: Thelemite 16
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 17
Other religion: Unification Church 2
Other religion: Universalist 29
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 5
Other religion: Wicca 523
Other religion: Witchcraft 29
Other religion: Yazidi 6
Other religion: Zoroastrian 58
Religion not stated 131,181

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

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