38.1% —
Lower than 66% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 38.1%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Kimberley · Sub-region (SA3)
Religion in Kimberley
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Christianity and those with no religion are the two dominant beliefs in Kimberley, with 38.6% and 38.1% of the population respectively. This split shows a community where faith and secular views are almost equally common.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 38.1% of people here report having no religion, a figure that is well below the Western Australian average but about the same as the national rate. This number has risen by 7.0 percentage points since 2016.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Kimberley splits fairly evenly between Christianity (39%) and No religion (38%), with Not stated at 21%.
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- Catholic 21.0%
- Other Christian 7.9%
- Anglican 4.6%
- Pentecostal 1.7%
- Uniting Church 1.7%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.1%
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- No religion 37.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Aboriginal traditional 0.9%
- Other religious groups 0.2%
- Sikhism 0.1%
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 Kimberley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/51001/kimberley/topic/religion