10.1% ▲ +65.5%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Tiwi Islands · Council (LGA)
Religion in Tiwi Islands
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A growing number of people in the Tiwi Islands now report no religion, though the area remains deeply spiritual. While this figure rose 4.0 percentage points since 2011, the vast majority of the population still identifies as Christian.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the dominant faith at 81.2%. Those with no religion make up 10.1% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 38.9% and the Northern Territory's 38.5%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Tiwi Islands, Christianity is the majority at 81%; No religion is next at 10%.
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- Catholic 78.5%
- Other Christian 1.3%
- Anglican 0.8%
- Uniting Church 0.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.2%
- Baptist 0.2%
- Pentecostal 0.1%
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- No religion 7.9%
- Other spiritual beliefs 2.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
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- Aboriginal traditional 1.7%
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 Tiwi Islands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA74050/tiwi-islands/topic/religion