41.5% ▲ +164.6%
Higher than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Carpentaria · Council (LGA)
Religion in Carpentaria
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
About the same as most similar areas, Carpentaria sees 41.5% of its people claiming no religion. This is a significant shift for the region, as the number of people with no religious affiliation has surged by 26 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 43.3%, while those with no religion make up 41.5% of the population, a figure slightly above the national 38.9%. Other groups are small, with Buddhism at 0.7%, Hinduism at 0.4%, and Islam at 0.2%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Carpentaria splits fairly evenly between Christianity (43%) and No religion (41%), with Not stated at 14%.
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- Catholic 13.8%
- Anglican 13.2%
- Other Christian 6.5%
- Uniting Church 3.6%
- Pentecostal 2.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.8%
- Baptist 1.4%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 41.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
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- 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 Carpentaria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA32250/carpentaria/topic/religion