45.2% ▲ +65.6%
Higher than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 45.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Religion in Remote Australia
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A shift towards having no religion has defined the spiritual landscape of Remote Australia, with that group growing by 18 percentage points since 2011. Now, 45.2% of people here report no religion, a figure that is well above the national level of 38.9%. This makes the area more likely to be non-religious than most other similar regions.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 45.2% of the population claims no religion, 38.7% identify as Christian. Other groups are much smaller, including Hindus at 1.8%, Buddhists at 0.9%, and other religions at 0.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Remote Australia, the largest group is No religion at 45%, followed by Christianity (39%) and Not stated (12%).
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- No religion 44.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Anglican 15.9%
- Catholic 13.2%
- Other Christian 3.8%
- Uniting Church 3.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.7%
- Baptist 0.6%
- Pentecostal 0.3%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.6%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.1%
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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA63/remote-australia/topic/religion