42.3% ▲ +116.9%
Higher than 59% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Shortland · Federal Electorate
Religion in Shortland
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
About half of people in Shortland identify as Christians, though the area has seen a rapid shift away from faith. A striking 42.3% of residents now report no religion, making it far more likely for people here to be non-religious than in the rest of the country.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 50.5%, but those with no religion have surged by 23 percentage points since 2011. This figure is now well above the New South Wales rate of 33.2% and the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Shortland, Christianity is the majority at 50%; No religion is next at 42%.
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- Catholic 19.5%
- Anglican 16.7%
- Other Christian 4.2%
- Uniting Church 3.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.3%
- Baptist 1.8%
- Pentecostal 1.3%
- Orthodox 0.8%
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- No religion 41.9%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.1%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Religion in Shortland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED141/shortland/topic/religion