40.6% ▲ +63.2%
Higher than 50% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 24.9%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 40.6%
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 sharp 16 percentage point rise in people with no religion since 2011 marks the biggest shift in faith for Remote Australia. Now, 40.6% of the population reports no religious affiliation, making it the most common response in the region.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 40.6% of people have no religion, Christianity remains nearly as common at 40.2%. Other faiths are less frequent, with Hinduism at 1.8% and Buddhism at 1.2%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between No religion (41%) and Christianity (40%), with Not stated at 13%.
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- No religion 40.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 19.5%
- Other Christian 7.8%
- Anglican 5.6%
- Uniting Church 2.5%
- Baptist 1.9%
- Pentecostal 1.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- Sikhism 0.9%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.8%
- Other religious groups 0.3%
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/RA73/remote-australia/topic/religion