34.8% ▲ +72.7%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Greater Shepparton · Council (LGA)
Religion in Greater Shepparton
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Faith and spiritual beliefs play a significant role in the daily lives of people in Greater Shepparton. While the number of people claiming no religion has risen, the area remains more religious than both the state and national averages. This is most visible in the 45.1% of residents who identify as Christians.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Nearly 45% of the population identifies as Christian and 6.4% as Muslim, which helps explain why far fewer people here identify as having no religion (34.8%) compared to the national figure of 38.9%. However, this number has risen by 15 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Greater Shepparton, the largest group is Christianity at 45%, followed by No religion (35%) and Not stated (9%).
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- Catholic 22.4%
- Anglican 8.6%
- Uniting Church 4.6%
- Other Christian 4.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Orthodox 1.3%
- Pentecostal 1.0%
- Baptist 0.8%
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- No religion 34.5%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Sikhism 2.1%
- Other religious groups 0.3%
- 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 Greater Shepparton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA22830/greater-shepparton/topic/religion