43.8% ▲ +77.9%
Higher than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Claremont · Council (LGA)
Religion in Claremont
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More people identify as having no religion in Claremont than in most similar areas. This is a growing trend in the community, with the number of people reporting no faith jumping 19 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 43.8% of residents have no religion, a figure well above the national average of 38.9%. Christianity remains the most common faith at 45.3%, while smaller groups include Buddhists at 1.4%, Hindus at 0.8%, and Jews at 0.7%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Claremont splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- Anglican 18.1%
- Catholic 17.3%
- Uniting Church 3.2%
- Other Christian 2.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.4%
- Orthodox 1.2%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
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- No religion 43.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.5%
- 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 Claremont [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51750/claremont/topic/religion