43.2% —
Higher than 58% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 43.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Goldfields · Sub-region (SA3)
Religion in Goldfields
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than four in ten people in Goldfields report having no religion. This makes the region's lack of religious affiliation much higher than the national figure, which is 38.9%. The number of people with no religion has grown significantly in recent years.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Those with no religion make up 43.2% of the population, a figure that rose 10 points since 2016. Christianity is the next most common affiliation at 36.6%, followed by Hinduism at 1.1% and Buddhism at 1.0%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Goldfields, the largest group is No religion at 43%, followed by Christianity (37%) and Not stated (16%).
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- No religion 42.9%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Catholic 16.0%
- Other Christian 8.7%
- Anglican 6.7%
- Baptist 1.6%
- Uniting Church 1.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- Aboriginal traditional 0.5%
- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.2%
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 Goldfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/51103/goldfields/topic/religion