44.9% ▲ +61.3%
Higher than 69% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 44.9%
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.
Nearly 45% of people in the major cities of Australia report having no religion. This shift reflects a growing trend toward secularism in urban centres, where the number of people with no faith has jumped by 17 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Those with no religion make up 44.9% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 38.9%. Other common faiths include Christianity at 39.9%, Islam at 2.9%, Hinduism at 2.7%, and Buddhism at 2.3%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Major Cities of Australia splits fairly evenly between No religion (45%) and Christianity (40%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- No religion 44.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 16.8%
- Anglican 7.0%
- Other Christian 5.9%
- Uniting Church 3.9%
- Orthodox 3.1%
- Baptist 1.6%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.6%
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- Sikhism 1.2%
- Other religious groups 0.5%
- 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/RA40/major-cities-of-australia/topic/religion