58.8% ▲ +60.9%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.6%
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 58.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Mount Alexander · Council (LGA)
Religion in Mount Alexander
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than half of the people in Mount Alexander report having no religion. This is a huge shift for the area, with the number of people claiming no faith jumping by 22 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
At 58.8%, the proportion of people with no religion is far above the Victorian and national figures. This group is the largest in the region, followed by Christians at 27.2% and Buddhists at 1.0%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Mount Alexander, No religion is the majority at 59%; Christianity is next at 27%.
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- No religion 57.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.4%
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- Catholic 9.0%
- Anglican 7.8%
- Uniting Church 3.9%
- Other Christian 3.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.3%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.5%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
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- Other religious groups 0.6%
- 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 Mount Alexander [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA25430/mount-alexander/topic/religion