42.5% ▲ +83.0%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Whitsunday · Council (LGA)
Religion in Whitsunday
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Almost 19 percentage points more people in Whitsunday now report having no religion than they did in 2011. This shift means that those without a faith now make up the largest group in the region, at 42.5%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Those with no religion represent 42.5% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 38.9%. Christianity follows closely at 42.4%, while Buddhism accounts for 0.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Whitsunday splits fairly evenly between No religion (43%) and Christianity (42%), with Not stated at 13%.
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- No religion 42.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 17.2%
- Anglican 11.9%
- Uniting Church 5.2%
- Other Christian 4.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.9%
- Baptist 1.0%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- 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 Whitsunday [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA37340/whitsunday/topic/religion