29.5% ▲ +82.6%
Lower than 83% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Walgett · Council (LGA)
Religion in Walgett
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Forty-two percent of people in Walgett identify as Christians, making it a more religious area than the national average. While the number of residents claiming no religion has risen by 13 percentage points since 2011, the community remains more spiritually affiliated than most other parts of Australia.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 41.9%, while 29.5% of people have no religion. This last group is well below the Australian figure of 38.9%, though Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam each account for less than 1% of the population.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Walgett, the largest group is Christianity at 42%, followed by No religion (30%) and Not stated (27%).
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- Catholic 17.2%
- Anglican 16.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.3%
- Other Christian 2.5%
- Uniting Church 1.0%
- Orthodox 1.0%
- Baptist 0.4%
- Pentecostal 0.1%
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- No religion 29.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.1%
- Sikhism 0.1%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.1%
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 Walgett [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17900/walgett/topic/religion