39.9% ▲ +72.1%
Lower than 53% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Very Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Religion in Very Remote Australia
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly 40% of people in Very Remote Australia report having no religion. This shift is part of a significant trend, as the number of people with no religious affiliation has climbed by 17 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common faith at 41.3%, while those with no religion make up 39.9% of the population. This last figure is a little above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Very Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between Christianity (41%) and No religion (40%), with Not stated at 15%.
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- Other Christian 13.0%
- Catholic 10.2%
- Uniting Church 7.9%
- Anglican 6.8%
- Orthodox 1.5%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
- Baptist 0.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.6%
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- No religion 39.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Aboriginal traditional 1.8%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- Other religious groups 0.2%
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 Very Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA44/very-remote-australia/topic/religion