29.0% ▲ +10.9%
Lower than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 29.0%
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.
A much lower share of people claim no religion in Inner Regional Australia compared to other similar areas. Only 29% of the population falls into this category, which is well below the national figure of 38.9%. This trend is shifting slowly, with the number of people reporting no faith rising by 2.8 points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 31.9%, followed by those with no religion at 29%. Other religions make up 3.9% of the population, while Islam and Hinduism both stand at 0.0%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Inner Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between Not stated (33%) and Christianity (33%), with No religion at 30%.
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- Anglican 14.2%
- Catholic 9.9%
- Other Christian 5.3%
- Baptist 2.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.3%
- Pentecostal 1.3%
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- No religion 29.8%
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- Aboriginal traditional 4.6%
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/RA91/inner-regional-australia/topic/religion