Census Data

Tyne and Wear: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E11000007

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Key Facts

All Residents 1,127,191
Male 550,666
Female 576,524
Households 498,496

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Metropolitan Counties. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within Tyne and Wear. 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 1,127,200
Christian 544,503
Buddhist 3,211
Hindu 6,427
Jewish 3,729
Muslim 42,121
Sikh 3,648
No religion 463,779
No religion: Agnostic 506
No religion: Atheist 237
No religion: Free Thinker 7
No religion: Humanist 134
No religion: No religion 462,894
No religion: Realist 1
Other religion 4,211
Other religion: Alevi 118
Other religion: Animism 7
Other religion: Baha'i 77
Other religion: Believe in God 19
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 0
Other religion: Chinese Religion 2
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 5
Other religion: Deist 14
Other religion: Druid 35
Other religion: Druze 4
Other religion: Eckankar 3
Other religion: Heathen 109
Other religion: Jain 64
Other religion: Mixed Religion 82
Other religion: Mysticism 1
Other religion: Native American Church 2
Other religion: New Age 9
Other religion: Occult 12
Other religion: Other religions 890
Other religion: Own Belief System 33
Other religion: Pagan 1,014
Other religion: Pantheism 23
Other religion: Rastafarian 27
Other religion: Ravidassia 1
Other religion: Reconstructionist 15
Other religion: Satanism 107
Other religion: Scientology 28
Other religion: Shamanism 7
Other religion: Shintoism 17
Other religion: Spiritual 403
Other religion: Spiritualist 643
Other religion: Taoist 54
Other religion: Theism 13
Other religion: Thelemite 0
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 4
Other religion: Unification Church 4
Other religion: Universalist 10
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 3
Other religion: Wicca 270
Other religion: Witchcraft 12
Other religion: Yazidi 4
Other religion: Zoroastrian 66
Religion not stated 55,571

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

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