27.2% ▲ +201.8%
Lower than 88% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 27.2%
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.
Fewer people identify as having no religion in Very Remote Australia compared to most other similar areas. While the number of people with no religion rose by 18 points since 2011, this figure remains far below the national average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 29.7%, followed by those with no religion at 27.2% and Islam at 17.2%. The proportion of people claiming no religion is much lower than in most other areas, sitting 12 points below the Australian figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Very Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between Christianity (30%) and No religion (27%), with Not stated at 19%.
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- Anglican 11.9%
- Catholic 8.2%
- Uniting Church 4.1%
- Other Christian 3.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.9%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
- Orthodox 0.1%
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- No religion 26.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- 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/RA94/very-remote-australia/topic/religion