41.4% ▲ +71.1%
Higher than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wentworth · Council (LGA)
Religion in Wentworth
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A jump of 17 percentage points since 2011 marks the fastest-growing group in Wentworth, where people reporting no religion now make up 41.4% of the population. This shift means a little more than four in ten residents now identify as non-religious, a figure that sits slightly above the national average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common faith at 43.5%, while 41.4% of people report no religion, which is well above the New South Wales figure. Other faiths are less common, with Buddhism at 0.6%, other religions at 0.4%, and Islam at 0.3%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Wentworth splits fairly evenly between Christianity (44%) and No religion (41%), with Not stated at 14%.
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- Catholic 18.8%
- Anglican 12.0%
- Uniting Church 4.8%
- Other Christian 4.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.1%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.3%
- Baptist 0.2%
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- No religion 41.0%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 0.2%
- Other religious groups 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 Wentworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA18200/wentworth/topic/religion