45.8% ▲ +88.5%
Higher than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Gladstone · Council (LGA)
Religion in Gladstone
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of all residents in Gladstone report having no religion, a figure that has surged by 22 percentage points since 2011. This makes the city notably less religious than both the state and national averages. While Christianity remains common, the shift toward no religion is the dominant story here.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 45.8% of people here have no religion, which is well above the 41.2% seen in Queensland and the 38.9% national figure. Other major groups include Christians at 43.1%, followed by much smaller communities of Buddhists (0.7%), Hindus (0.7%) and Muslims (0.4%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →Gladstone splits fairly evenly between No religion (46%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 9%.
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- No religion 45.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 16.4%
- Anglican 12.2%
- Other Christian 4.8%
- Uniting Church 3.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.7%
- Baptist 1.8%
- Pentecostal 1.3%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- 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 Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33360/gladstone/topic/religion