14.8% ▲ +92.5%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Fairfield · Council (LGA)
Religion in Fairfield
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far fewer people identify as having no religion in Fairfield compared to most similar areas. Only 14.8% of residents report no religious affiliation, which is far below the national figure of 38.9%. This highlights a strongly religious community where over half the population identifies as Christian.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 50.3%, followed by Buddhism at 19.9% and Islam at 6.3%. While the number of people with no religion rose 7.1 percentage points since 2011, the current 14.8% remains far below the New South Wales figure of 33.2%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Fairfield, Christianity is the majority at 50%; Buddhism is next at 20%.
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- Catholic 30.3%
- Other Christian 10.2%
- Orthodox 4.6%
- Anglican 2.6%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
- Uniting Church 0.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.4%
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- No religion 14.6%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.8%
- 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 Fairfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA12850/fairfield/topic/religion