41.9% ▲ +92.1%
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Ipswich · Council (LGA)
Religion in Ipswich
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A significant shift in faith has seen 41.9% of Ipswich residents now claiming no religion. This means nearly half the population does not identify with a faith, a figure that has surged by 20 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common faith at 44.6%, while 1.9% of people are Hindu. The proportion of residents with no religion is well above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Ipswich splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (42%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- Catholic 16.4%
- Anglican 9.6%
- Other Christian 9.0%
- Uniting Church 3.3%
- Pentecostal 2.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.9%
- Baptist 1.9%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- No religion 41.5%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 0.8%
- Other religious groups 0.5%
- 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 Ipswich [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33960/ipswich/topic/religion