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
56,490,047
Christian
26,167,899
Buddhist
262,433
Hindu
1,020,533
Jewish
269,283
Muslim
3,801,186
Sikh
520,092
No religion
20,715,667
No religion: Agnostic
30,352
No religion: Atheist
13,059
No religion: Free Thinker
290
No religion: Humanist
9,579
No religion: No religion
20,662,316
No religion: Realist
71
Other religion
332,406
Other religion: Alevi
25,460
Other religion: Animism
733
Other religion: Baha'i
4,489
Other religion: Believe in God
2,313
Other religion: Brahma Kumari
229
Other religion: Chinese Religion
109
Other religion: Church of All Religion
22
Other religion: Confucianist
76
Other religion: Deist
1,036
Other religion: Druid
2,268
Other religion: Druze
619
Other religion: Eckankar
319
Other religion: Heathen
4,478
Other religion: Jain
24,887
Other religion: Mixed Religion
10,981
Other religion: Mysticism
137
Other religion: Native American Church
74
Other religion: New Age
373
Other religion: Occult
457
Other religion: Other religions
63,227
Other religion: Own Belief System
2,067
Other religion: Pagan
68,629
Other religion: Pantheism
2,158
Other religion: Rastafarian
5,802
Other religion: Ravidassia
9,564
Other religion: Reconstructionist
697
Other religion: Satanism
4,751
Other religion: Scientology
1,833
Other religion: Shamanism
7,624
Other religion: Shintoism
1,337
Other religion: Spiritual
29,918
Other religion: Spiritualist
30,994
Other religion: Taoist
3,525
Other religion: Theism
830
Other religion: Thelemite
209
Other religion: Traditional African Religion
651
Other religion: Unification Church
195
Other religion: Universalist
721
Other religion: Valmiki
1,034
Other religion: Vodun
246
Other religion: Wicca
11,946
Other religion: Witchcraft
967
Other religion: Yazidi
392
Other religion: Zoroastrian
4,029
Religion not stated
3,400,548
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