42.3% ▲ +79.0%
Higher than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Yorke Peninsula · Council (LGA)
Religion in Yorke Peninsula
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A shift toward secularism has seen the number of people with no religion rise by 19 percentage points since 2011 in Yorke Peninsula. While 42.3% of residents now claim no faith, Christianity remains the most common affiliation at 46.9%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The proportion of people with no religion is well above the national figure, though it remains well below that of South Australia. Other faiths are rare here, with Buddhism at 0.4% and Hinduism at 0.1%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Yorke Peninsula splits fairly evenly between Christianity (47%) and No religion (42%), with Not stated at 10%.
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- Uniting Church 14.3%
- Anglican 10.6%
- Catholic 9.6%
- Other Christian 8.1%
- Pentecostal 2.4%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 42.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.1%
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 Yorke Peninsula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA48830/yorke-peninsula/topic/religion