37.3% ▲ +60.1%
Lower than 61% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Major Cities of Australia · Remoteness Area
Religion in Major Cities of Australia
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Diverse faith and belief systems shape the daily life of people across the Major Cities of Australia. Christianity remains the most common faith at 40.3%, while the number of people reporting no religion has jumped 14 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 37.3% of people here have no religion, which is a little below the national figure of 38.9%. Other significant groups include Islam at 5.2%, Hinduism at 4.1%, and Buddhism at 3.8%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Major Cities of Australia splits fairly evenly between Christianity (40%) and No religion (37%), with Not stated at 6%.
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- Catholic 20.9%
- Anglican 5.5%
- Orthodox 4.5%
- Other Christian 4.3%
- Uniting Church 1.7%
- Baptist 1.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
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- No religion 36.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 1.7%
- 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 Major Cities of Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA20/major-cities-of-australia/topic/religion