43.6% ▲ +93.7%
Higher than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Warrnambool · Council (LGA)
Religion in Warrnambool
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A shift toward secularism has been rapid in Warrnambool, where the number of people reporting no religion rose by 21 percentage points since 2011. Now, 43.6% of residents identify as having no religion, a figure well above the national average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common faith at 47.3%, while those with no religion make up 43.6% of the area. This non-religious group is larger than in most other areas and sits well above the Victorian figure of 39.3%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Warrnambool splits fairly evenly between Christianity (47%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- Catholic 26.7%
- Anglican 6.6%
- Other Christian 4.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 4.2%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Baptist 1.3%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 43.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- 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 Warrnambool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA26730/warrnambool/topic/religion