40.7% —
Lower than 54% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Mid West · Sub-region (SA3)
Religion in Mid West
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Faith and belief systems are shifting in the Mid West, where 40.7% of the population now identifies as having no religion. This represents a significant change for the region, as the number of people with no religious affiliation has jumped by 10 percentage points since 2016.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common faith at 43%, followed closely by those with no religion at 40.7%. Other faiths are less common, with Islam at 1.1% and Buddhism at 0.8%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Mid West splits fairly evenly between Christianity (43%) and No religion (41%), with Not stated at 14%.
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- Catholic 20.2%
- Anglican 12.9%
- Other Christian 4.8%
- Uniting Church 2.2%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.9%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 40.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- 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 Mid West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/51104/mid-west/topic/religion