38.8% ▲ +98.1%
Lower than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wollongong · Council (LGA)
Religion in Wollongong
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly 20 percentage points more people now report having no religion in Wollongong than they did in 2011. This shift means that 38.8% of the population now identify as non-religious, while about half the community remains Christian.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While the number of people with no religion has risen sharply to 38.8%, this figure is still lower than in most similar areas. This group is now well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2%, though it sits about the same as the national average.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Wollongong, Christianity is the majority at 50%; No religion is next at 39%.
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- Catholic 22.8%
- Anglican 12.7%
- Other Christian 4.6%
- Orthodox 4.5%
- Uniting Church 2.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.7%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
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- No religion 38.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- 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 Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA18450/wollongong/topic/religion