10.1% ▲ +66.5%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Tiwi Islands · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Religion in Tiwi Islands
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A far lower share of people report having no religion in the Tiwi Islands compared to the rest of the country. While 38.9% of Australians identify as non-religious, only 10.1% of people here do the same, making it one of the lowest areas for this trend.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 81.2%. Meanwhile, those with no religion make up 10.1% of the population, a figure that rose 4.0 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Tiwi Islands, Christianity is the majority at 81%; No religion is next at 10%.
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- Catholic 78.5%
- Other Christian 1.3%
- Anglican 0.8%
- Uniting Church 0.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.2%
- Baptist 0.2%
- Pentecostal 0.1%
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- No religion 7.9%
- Other spiritual beliefs 2.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
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- Aboriginal traditional 1.7%
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 Tiwi Islands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/702031060/tiwi-islands/topic/religion