42.3% ▲ +77.5%
Higher than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wanneroo · Council (LGA)
Religion in Wanneroo
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A huge shift in beliefs has occurred in Wanneroo, where the share of people reporting no religion rose by 18 percentage points since 2011. Now, 42.3% of residents have no religious affiliation, a figure well above the national average of 38.9%. This trend has made the area's religious landscape much more divided between those with faith and those without.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 42.9%, followed closely by those with no religion at 42.3%. Other groups include Islam (3.0%), Buddhism (2.5%), and Hinduism (2.4%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →Wanneroo splits fairly evenly between Christianity (43%) and No religion (42%), with Not stated at 6%.
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- Catholic 18.1%
- Anglican 10.1%
- Other Christian 6.8%
- Baptist 2.1%
- Orthodox 1.9%
- Pentecostal 1.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.2%
- Uniting Church 1.0%
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- No religion 42.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Sikhism 0.5%
- Other religious groups 0.4%
- 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 Wanneroo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA58760/wanneroo/topic/religion