20.5% ▲ +65.6%
Lower than 94% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
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Religion in Central Desert
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Faith plays a significant role in daily life for most people in Central Desert, where 65.5% of residents identify as Christian. This spiritual focus is much more common here than in the rest of the country, where far fewer people report a religious affiliation.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While the number of people with no religion rose 8.1 points since 2011, the 20.5% total is still far below the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Central Desert, Christianity is the majority at 66%; No religion is next at 21%.
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- Baptist 25.5%
- Other Christian 22.6%
- Catholic 8.7%
- Pentecostal 6.4%
- Anglican 1.5%
- Uniting Church 1.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.1%
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- No religion 20.5%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
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- Aboriginal traditional 0.8%
- Sikhism 0.1%
- Other religious groups 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 Central Desert [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA70620/central-desert/topic/religion