24.9% —
Lower than 88% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Earlwood · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Religion in Earlwood
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Religious faith remains a strong part of life in Earlwood, where the proportion of people identifying with a religion is far higher than across the rest of the country. Over 62% of the community identifies as Christian, contributing to a very low rate of people reporting no faith.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Only 24.9% of residents have no religion, a figure that is well below the New South Wales rate of 33.2% and far below the Australian average. Christianity is the most common faith at 62.6%, followed by Buddhism at 3%, Islam at 2.9%, and Hinduism at 0.5%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Earlwood, Christianity is the majority at 63%; No religion is next at 25%.
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- Catholic 28.9%
- Orthodox 24.8%
- Anglican 4.1%
- Other Christian 2.6%
- Uniting Church 0.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.6%
- Baptist 0.5%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
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- No religion 24.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- Sikhism 0.1%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
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 Earlwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/119021662/earlwood/topic/religion