43.8% ▲ +84.1%
Higher than 61% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Gympie - Cooloola · Sub-region (SA3)
Religion in Gympie - Cooloola
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A rapid shift in faith has seen no religion grow by 20 percentage points since 2011 in Gympie - Cooloola. This area is now more likely to be non-religious than most other places, with 43.8% of the population reporting no faith.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While Christianity remains the most common faith at 45.5%, the number of people with no religion is now a little above the Queensland figure and well above the national average. Other faiths are less common, with Buddhism at 0.6% and Hinduism at 0.1%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Gympie - Cooloola splits fairly evenly between Christianity (46%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 9%.
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- Catholic 13.4%
- Anglican 13.0%
- Other Christian 7.9%
- Uniting Church 6.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.3%
- Baptist 1.6%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 43.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- 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 Gympie - Cooloola [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31903/gympie-cooloola/topic/religion