40.2% ▲ +51.4%
Lower than 52% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Religion in Remote Australia
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith in Remote Australia, where 48.1% of people identify with a Christian denomination. While religious beliefs remain a significant part of life here, the number of people reporting no religion has climbed sharply over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 40.2% of people in the area now claim no religion, a figure that has risen by 14 percentage points since 2011. This is a little above the national figure of 38.9% and sits around the middle for similar areas.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Remote Australia, the largest group is Christianity at 48%, followed by No religion (40%) and Not stated (10%).
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- Catholic 13.3%
- Uniting Church 11.2%
- Anglican 11.1%
- Other Christian 8.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.9%
- Baptist 1.3%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
- Orthodox 0.1%
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- No religion 39.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.5%
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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA23/remote-australia/topic/religion