33.4% ▲ +87.5%
Lower than 70% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 33.4%
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.
More than half of people in Remote Australia identify as Christian, making it a more religious region than the rest of the country. While the number of people with no religion has grown quickly, it remains well below the national figure.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 51.0%. Those with no religion make up 33.4% of the population, which is 5.5 percentage points lower than the Australian average, though this group rose by 16 points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Remote Australia, Christianity is the majority at 51%; No religion is next at 33%.
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- Catholic 21.7%
- Anglican 13.6%
- Other Christian 6.9%
- Uniting Church 4.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.0%
- Pentecostal 1.4%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 33.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- Sikhism 0.1%
- 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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA33/remote-australia/topic/religion