24.5% ▲ +55.2%
Lower than 91% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 24.5%
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.
A growing number of people in Very Remote Australia now report no religion, with this figure rising by 8.7 percentage points since 2011. While more people are moving away from faith, the area remains far more religious than the national average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Over half of the population identifies as Christian, while those with no religion make up 24.5%. This last group is among the lowest for similar areas and sits far below the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Very Remote Australia, Christianity is the majority at 54%; No religion is next at 24%.
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- Other Christian 18.2%
- Uniting Church 10.2%
- Catholic 10.0%
- Anglican 7.0%
- Baptist 6.4%
- Pentecostal 1.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.3%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 24.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
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- Aboriginal traditional 7.1%
- Other religious groups 0.1%
- Sikhism 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 Very Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA74/very-remote-australia/topic/religion