43.5% ▲ +78.1%
Higher than 63% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Outer Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Religion in Outer Regional Australia
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A jump of 19 percentage points since 2011 marks a major shift in Outer Regional Australia, where 43.5% of people now report no religion. This is well above the national figure and shows a growing trend of residents moving away from religious affiliation.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 43.9%, though those with no religion follow closely at 43.5%. Other faiths are less common, with Buddhism at 1.1% and Islam at 0.8%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Outer Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between Christianity (44%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 10%.
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- Catholic 16.6%
- Anglican 10.6%
- Uniting Church 6.6%
- Other Christian 5.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Baptist 1.0%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- No religion 43.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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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 Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA22/outer-regional-australia/topic/religion