31.9% ▲ +121.8%
Lower than 82% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Orange · Sub-region (SA3)
Religion in Orange
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than half of the people in Orange identify as Christians, making it the most common faith in the area. While more people have claimed no religion over the last decade, the city remains more religious than the national average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the primary faith for 58.4% of residents. Those with no religion make up 31.9%, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Australian figure of 38.9%, though this group rose 18 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Orange, Christianity is the majority at 58%; No religion is next at 32%.
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- Catholic 25.9%
- Anglican 17.3%
- Uniting Church 5.0%
- Other Christian 4.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.3%
- Baptist 1.5%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 31.6%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- 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 Orange [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10304/orange/topic/religion