45.0% ▲ +81.5%
Higher than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Central Goldfields · Council (LGA)
Religion in Central Goldfields
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Central Goldfields report having no religion, making it the most common response. This shift is stark, as the number of residents identifying this way has jumped 20 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 45% of residents have no religion, which is well above the 39.3% seen in Victoria. Christianity is almost as common at 44.2%, while other faiths like Buddhism (0.5%) and Hinduism (0.3%) are very rare here.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Central Goldfields splits fairly evenly between No religion (45%) and Christianity (44%), with Not stated at 9%.
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- No religion 44.6%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Anglican 15.1%
- Catholic 15.1%
- Uniting Church 5.9%
- Other Christian 4.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.5%
- Baptist 0.6%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 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 Central Goldfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA21670/central-goldfields/topic/religion