42.2% ▲ +68.5%
Higher than 56% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 42.2%
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.
A rise of 17 percentage points in people reporting no religion since 2011 is the biggest shift for Major Cities of Australia. Now, 42.2% of the population identifies as non-religious, making these urban areas more secular than the national figure.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The most common affiliation is no religion at 42.2%, which is well above the national figure of 38.9%. Christianity follows closely at 41.9%, while other faiths include Islam (3%), Buddhism (2.5%) and Hinduism (2.4%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →Major Cities of Australia splits fairly evenly between No religion (42%) and Christianity (42%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- No religion 41.7%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 19.5%
- Anglican 9.8%
- Other Christian 5.6%
- Baptist 1.6%
- Uniting Church 1.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.3%
- Orthodox 1.3%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
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- Sikhism 0.9%
- Other religious groups 0.4%
- 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/RA50/major-cities-of-australia/topic/religion