49.8% ▲ +73.7%
Higher than 94% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 49.8%
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.
Almost half of the people in Inner Regional Australia report having no religion. This reflects a significant shift in the region, where the number of people with no faith has jumped by 21 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Nearly half of the population (49.8%) identifies with no religion, a figure far above the national average of 38.9%. This is one of the highest proportions of non-religious people among similar areas, while 38.0% of residents identify as Christians.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Inner Regional Australia, the largest group is No religion at 50%, followed by Christianity (38%) and Not stated (6%).
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- No religion 49.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Anglican 14.2%
- Catholic 13.5%
- Other Christian 4.2%
- Uniting Church 2.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.5%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.7%
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- Sikhism 0.6%
- 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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA61/inner-regional-australia/topic/religion