44.0% ▲ +76.2%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Pyrenees · Council (LGA)
Religion in Pyrenees
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A jump of 19 percentage points since 2011 means that 44% of people in Pyrenees now report no religion. This is well above the figures for both Victoria and Australia. While many people still identify as Christians, a growing number of residents are moving away from religious affiliation.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Forty-four percent of the population reports no religion, which is much higher than most similar areas. This far outweighs other groups, with Christianity following at 40.6% and other faiths like Buddhism and Islam making up very small proportions of the area.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Pyrenees splits fairly evenly between No religion (44%) and Christianity (41%), with Not stated at 14%.
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- No religion 43.7%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 14.7%
- Anglican 12.7%
- Uniting Church 6.9%
- Other Christian 2.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.3%
- Baptist 0.4%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- 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 Pyrenees [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA25990/pyrenees/topic/religion