16.8% ▲ +114.9%
Lower than 98% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
MacDonnell · Council (LGA)
Religion in MacDonnell
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Christianity is the dominant faith in MacDonnell, where 60% of the population identifies with a religion. Very few people here report having no religion compared to the rest of the country, though this group has grown since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Only 16.8% of people identify as having no religion, a figure far below the Northern Territory (38.5%) and Australia (38.9%). This proportion has risen 9.0 percentage points since 2011, while other faiths like Hinduism (0.2%) and Buddhism (0.1%) remain very rare.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In MacDonnell, Christianity is the majority at 60%; Not stated is next at 21%.
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- Other Christian 41.3%
- Catholic 15.0%
- Anglican 1.1%
- Uniting Church 1.1%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.1%
- Orthodox 0.1%
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- No religion 16.6%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
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- Aboriginal traditional 1.9%
- 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 MacDonnell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA72330/macdonnell/topic/religion