47.2% ▲ +74.3%
Higher than 78% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 47.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Holdfast Bay · Council (LGA)
Religion in Holdfast Bay
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of Holdfast Bay residents now report having no religion, making it the largest group in the area. This shift is a major change for the region, with the number of people claiming no faith jumping 20 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
At 47.2%, the share of people with no religion is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 38.9%. Christianity is the next most common faith at 44.1%, followed by smaller groups of Hindus (1.0%) and Buddhists (0.9%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →Holdfast Bay splits fairly evenly between No religion (47%) and Christianity (44%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- No religion 46.6%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 18.7%
- Anglican 10.5%
- Uniting Church 5.5%
- Other Christian 5.1%
- Orthodox 2.0%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.8%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
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- Other religious groups 0.5%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- 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 Holdfast Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA42600/holdfast-bay/topic/religion