41.6% ▲ +66.0%
Higher than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Knox · Council (LGA)
Religion in Knox
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Roughly half of the population in Knox identifies as Christian, while about 41.6% report no religion. This mix is typical for its size and reflects a broader shift in the area, where the number of people with no faith has climbed significantly over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The proportion of people with no religion rose 17 percentage points since 2011 to 41.6%, which is a little above the national figure of 38.9%. Christianity remains the most common faith at 42.7%, followed by Buddhism at 4.3% and Hinduism at 3.6%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Knox splits fairly evenly between Christianity (43%) and No religion (42%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- Catholic 18.8%
- Anglican 6.7%
- Other Christian 6.1%
- Orthodox 2.9%
- Baptist 2.3%
- Uniting Church 2.3%
- Pentecostal 1.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.7%
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- No religion 41.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 0.6%
- Other religious groups 0.6%
- 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 Knox [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA23670/knox/topic/religion