41.2% —
Higher than 50% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Greater Geraldton · Council (LGA)
Religion in Greater Geraldton
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A shift away from organised faith has seen the number of people in Greater Geraldton reporting no religion jump by 11 percentage points since 2016. This trend means that while 41.2% of the community now identify as non-religious, Christianity remains the most common affiliation at 44.7%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The proportion of people with no religion is now a little above the national figure of 38.9%, though it sits slightly below the Western Australian average. Other faiths are less common, with Islam at 1.4%, Buddhism at 0.9% and Hinduism at 0.4%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Greater Geraldton splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (41%), with Not stated at 11%.
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- Catholic 22.3%
- Anglican 12.0%
- Other Christian 5.0%
- Uniting Church 2.0%
- Pentecostal 1.4%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 40.9%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- 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 Greater Geraldton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA53800/greater-geraldton/topic/religion