37.5% ▲ +103.6%
Lower than 61% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Religion in Inner Regional Australia
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Over half of the people in Inner Regional Australia identify as Christians, making it a predominantly religious area compared to the national average. While 51.5% follow a Christian faith, there has been a sharp rise in those with no religion over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
People with no religion now make up 37.5% of the population, a figure that rose 19 percentage points since 2011. This is a little below the Australian average of 38.9% and is lower than most similar areas.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Inner Regional Australia, Christianity is the majority at 52%; No religion is next at 37%.
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- Catholic 21.2%
- Anglican 17.8%
- Other Christian 4.1%
- Uniting Church 3.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.7%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- No religion 37.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- 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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA11/inner-regional-australia/topic/religion