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
4,880,053
Christian
2,214,151
Buddhist
14,521
Hindu
120,345
Jewish
4,313
Muslim
210,766
Sikh
53,950
No religion
1,950,354
No religion: Agnostic
2,309
No religion: Atheist
1,023
No religion: Free Thinker
20
No religion: Humanist
738
No religion: No religion
1,946,259
No religion: Realist
5
Other religion
24,812
Other religion: Alevi
757
Other religion: Animism
43
Other religion: Baha'i
269
Other religion: Believe in God
196
Other religion: Brahma Kumari
19
Other religion: Chinese Religion
2
Other religion: Church of All Religion
1
Other religion: Confucianist
5
Other religion: Deist
83
Other religion: Druid
222
Other religion: Druze
20
Other religion: Eckankar
24
Other religion: Heathen
466
Other religion: Jain
1,324
Other religion: Mixed Religion
755
Other religion: Mysticism
7
Other religion: Native American Church
12
Other religion: New Age
26
Other religion: Occult
39
Other religion: Other religions
4,606
Other religion: Own Belief System
157
Other religion: Pagan
7,227
Other religion: Pantheism
151
Other religion: Rastafarian
392
Other religion: Ravidassia
461
Other religion: Reconstructionist
55
Other religion: Satanism
428
Other religion: Scientology
56
Other religion: Shamanism
120
Other religion: Shintoism
52
Other religion: Spiritual
2,019
Other religion: Spiritualist
2,963
Other religion: Taoist
214
Other religion: Theism
57
Other religion: Thelemite
14
Other religion: Traditional African Religion
32
Other religion: Unification Church
1
Other religion: Universalist
44
Other religion: Valmiki
23
Other religion: Vodun
5
Other religion: Wicca
1,190
Other religion: Witchcraft
84
Other religion: Yazidi
47
Other religion: Zoroastrian
144
Religion not stated
286,841
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