20.9% ▲ +142.2%
Lower than 94% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Bourke · Council (LGA)
Religion in Bourke
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith in Bourke, where 57.7% of the population identifies with a religion. While more people now report having no religion than in the past, the area remains far more religious than the state and national averages.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
More than half the people here are Christian, while those with no religion make up 20.9%. This last figure is far below the national average of 38.9%, although it has risen by 12 points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Bourke, Christianity is the majority at 58%; No religion is next at 21%.
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- Catholic 34.1%
- Anglican 13.8%
- Other Christian 2.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.7%
- Baptist 1.5%
- Uniting Church 1.4%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 20.7%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Aboriginal traditional 0.2%
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 Bourke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11150/bourke/topic/religion