This report presents selected information for the Lancashire-14 and Lancashire-12 areas, individual local authority areas within these boundaries and electoral wards. The dataset was originally published in November 2022 although figures for electoral wards were not specifically published until January 2023. The following article uses statistics for local authorities from the Phase 1 - Census 2021 topic summaries. There were more people in the Lancashire-12 area who identified as 'Pagan' (1,631) than as 'Jewish' (958).
In three wards in Pendle, where the district proportion of 'Muslims' was 26%, there was a 'Muslim' majority.6.9% of respondents identified as 'Muslim' in the Lancashire-12 area, but this was 35% in Blackburn with Darwen where 8 of the 17 wards had a 'Muslim' majority.'No religion' was the dominant category in two more wards in Pendle, three in Lancaster and three in Blackpool, where the district proportion amounted to 41%.In contrast only 26.3% of people identified with 'No religion' in Preston, although this category dominated in one of the 16 wards.40.1% of people identified with 'No religion' in Rossendale, more than the England and Wales average of 37.2%, though in all of the district's 14 wards 'Christian' dominated - sometimes by a small margin.Christianity was still the dominant religion in all of the districts in Lancashire and in 216 of 233 wards in the Lancashire-12 area and in 243 out of 271 wards in the Lancashire-14 area.This fell by 14.1 percentage points from 68.8% in 2011.The religion with which most people identified in the Lancashire-12 area was Christian (54.7%).
0 kommentar(er)
