46.5% ▲ +76.2%
Higher than 77% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 46.5%
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.
A massive 20 percentage point jump in people reporting no religion has reshaped the spiritual landscape of Inner Regional Australia since 2011. Nearly half of the population, 46.5%, now identify as non-religious, which is well above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Those with no religion make up 46.5% of the area, a figure much higher than most similar regions. This group is now larger than those who identify as Christians, who account for 42.7% of the population.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Inner Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between No religion (46%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- No religion 46.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 19.9%
- Anglican 10.1%
- Uniting Church 4.3%
- Other Christian 3.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.6%
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- Sikhism 0.3%
- Other religious groups 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/RA21/inner-regional-australia/topic/religion