What is your religion?

This infographic illustrates data on religion from the 2011 Census to provide a picture of the various faiths across England and Wales.


What is your religion? infographic. This question was on the 2011 Census in England and Wales. It was open to all respondents but answering it was voluntary. There was a choice of 7 options which were: No religion, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh. If a respondent did not select any of these options they could have given a written answer, or left the question blank. This question aimed to measure how we connect or identify with a religion regardless of practice or belief.

Number percent
All categories: Religion 56,075,912 100
Christian 33,243,175 59.3
Buddhist 247,743 0.4
Hindu 816,633 1.5
Jewish 263,346 0.5
Muslim (Islam) 2,706,066 4.8
Sikh 423,158 0.8
Other religion: Total 240,530 0.4
Animism 541 0
Baha’i 5,021 0
Believe in God 2,969 0
Brahma Kumari 442 0
Chinese Religion 182 0
Church of All Religion 408 0
Confucianist 124 0
Deist 1,199 0
Druid 4,189 0
Druze 515 0
Eckankar 379 0
Heathen 1,958 0
Jain 20,288 0
Other religion: Mixed Religion 23,566 0
Mysticism 204 0
Native American Church 127 0
New Age 698 0
Occult 502 0
Own Belief System 1,949 0
Pagan 56,620 0.1
Pantheism 2,216 0
Rastafarian 7,906 0
Ravidassia 11,058 0
Reconstructionist 251 0
Satanism 1,893 0
Scientology 2,418 0
Shamanism 650 0
Shintoism 1,075 0
Spiritual 13,832 0
Spiritualist 39,061 0.1
Taoist 4,144 0
Theism 830 0
Thelemite 184 0
Traditional African Religion 588 0
Unification Church 452 0
Universalist 923 0
Vodun 208 0
Wicca 11,766 0
Witchcraft 1,276 0
Zoroastrian 4,105 0
Other religions 13,813 0
No religion: Total 14,097,229 25.1
No religion 13,836,778 24.7
Agnostic 32,382 0.1
Atheist 29,267 0.1
Free Thinker 513 0
Heavy Metal 6,242 0
Humanist 15,067 0
Jedi Knight 176,632 0.3
Realist 348 0
Religion not stated 4,038,032 7.2

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