38.4% ▲ +144.5%
Lower than 65% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 38.4%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Maitland · Sub-region (SA3)
Religion in Maitland
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A significant shift in faith has occurred in Maitland, where the proportion of people with no religion rose by 23 percentage points since 2011. While over half the population still identifies as Christian, the number of residents without a religious affiliation has grown rapidly to reach 38.4%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
More than half of residents (53.7%) identify as Christian, while 38.4% report no religion. This last figure is well above the New South Wales average, though it sits about the same as the national figure.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Maitland, Christianity is the majority at 54%; No religion is next at 38%.
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- Catholic 23.1%
- Anglican 18.2%
- Other Christian 4.2%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Baptist 1.5%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 38.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Sikhism 0.3%
- Other religious groups 0.3%
- 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 Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10602/maitland/topic/religion