41.0% ▲ +92.8%
Lower than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 41.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Nambucca Valley · Council (LGA)
Religion in Nambucca Valley
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Forty-one per cent of people in Nambucca Valley report having no religion, a figure that has jumped by 20 percentage points since 2011. While nearly half the population still identifies as Christian, the shift away from organised faith is a defining trend for the region.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 46.7%, though those with no religion now make up 41.0% of the area. This last group is well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2% and slightly higher than the national average.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Nambucca Valley, the largest group is Christianity at 47%, followed by No religion (41%) and Not stated (10%).
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- Catholic 17.2%
- Anglican 15.8%
- Other Christian 5.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.6%
- Uniting Church 3.1%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
- Baptist 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 40.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- 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 Nambucca Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15700/nambucca-valley/topic/religion