44.6% ▲ +63.7%
Higher than 70% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 44.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Deakin · Federal Electorate
Religion in Deakin
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far more people in Deakin report having no religion compared to most similar areas. Nearly 45% of residents identify this way, which is well above the figures for both Victoria and Australia. This represents a significant shift in the local community's beliefs over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 44.6% of people here have no religion, a figure that rose 17 percentage points since 2011. Christianity is the next most common faith at 42.5%, followed by Buddhism at 3.0%, Hinduism at 2.4% and Islam at 1.2%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Deakin splits fairly evenly between No religion (45%) and Christianity (42%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- No religion 44.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 17.3%
- Anglican 7.1%
- Other Christian 6.5%
- Baptist 3.8%
- Uniting Church 2.9%
- Orthodox 2.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.6%
- Pentecostal 1.3%
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- Sikhism 0.5%
- Other religious groups 0.5%
- 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 Deakin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED211/deakin/topic/religion