50.1% ▲ +67.1%
Higher than 96% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 38.0%
- 2021: 50.1%
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.
Over half of the people in Inner Regional Australia report having no religion, making it the most common response. This represents a significant shift in the region, as the number of people without a faith has jumped by 20 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The typical resident in Inner Regional Australia does not follow a religion (50.1%), a figure far above the national mark of 38.9%. Christianity is the next most common faith at 40.5%, while Buddhism, other religions and Islam all account for less than 1% each.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Inner Regional Australia, No religion is the majority at 50%; Christianity is next at 40%.
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- No religion 49.6%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other Christian 11.6%
- Catholic 9.6%
- Anglican 8.4%
- Uniting Church 7.0%
- Baptist 1.4%
- Pentecostal 1.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- 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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA41/inner-regional-australia/topic/religion