45.2% ▲ +80.6%
Higher than 68% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 45.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wakefield - Barunga West · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Religion in Wakefield - Barunga West
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Wakefield - Barunga West now report having no religion. This shift is the area's biggest story, with the number of people without a faith jumping 20 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 46.2%. However, those with no religion make up 45.2% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Wakefield - Barunga West splits fairly evenly between Christianity (46%) and No religion (45%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- Uniting Church 15.5%
- Catholic 11.0%
- Other Christian 9.5%
- Anglican 7.4%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 44.9%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 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 Wakefield - Barunga West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/405021119/wakefield-barunga-west/topic/religion