42.7% ▲ +108.0%
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 42.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Horsham · Council (LGA)
Religion in Horsham
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than four in ten people in Horsham now report having no religion, a figure that has jumped 22 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area's shift away from faith more pronounced than the national trend. Christianity remains the most common affiliation at 48.4%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
At 42.7%, the share of residents with no religion is well above the figures for Victoria and Australia. Other religious groups are small, with Hinduism at 0.8%, Buddhism at 0.5%, and Islam at 0.4%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Horsham, the largest group is Christianity at 48%, followed by No religion (43%) and Not stated (7%).
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- Catholic 13.9%
- Uniting Church 11.5%
- Other Christian 11.3%
- Anglican 8.0%
- Pentecostal 1.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.3%
- Baptist 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 42.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Sikhism 0.2%
- Other religious groups 0.2%
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 Horsham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA23190/horsham/topic/religion