44.3% —
Higher than 64% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 44.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Colac - Corangamite · Sub-region (SA3)
Religion in Colac - Corangamite
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far more people in Colac - Corangamite report having no religion compared to the national average. While Christianity remains the most common faith, the number of people claiming no religion has jumped by 12 percentage points since 2016.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 44.3% of residents have no religion, which is well above the figures for Victoria (39.3%) and Australia (38.9%). Christianity is the largest religious group at 45.6%, followed by small groups of Buddhists (0.6%), Muslims (0.3%), and other faiths (0.3%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →Colac - Corangamite splits fairly evenly between Christianity (46%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 9%.
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- Catholic 22.4%
- Anglican 8.7%
- Uniting Church 6.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.4%
- Other Christian 2.6%
- Baptist 1.0%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 44.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- 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 Colac - Corangamite [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/21703/colac-corangamite/topic/religion