35.5% ▲ +40.5%
Lower than 74% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Katherine · Sub-region (SA3)
Religion in Katherine
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Ten percentage points more people in Katherine now claim no religion than in 2011. While Christianity remains the most common faith at 42.7%, the number of people with no religious affiliation has climbed to 35.5%. This shift makes the area's lack of religious ties much lower than in most other similar regions.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
At 35.5%, the share of people with no religion is well below the national figure of 38.9%. Other faiths are less common here, with 3% following other religions, while Hinduism and Buddhism account for 1.2% and 0.6% respectively.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Katherine, the largest group is Christianity at 43%, followed by No religion (36%) and Not stated (16%).
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- Anglican 12.5%
- Catholic 10.4%
- Other Christian 9.0%
- Baptist 5.7%
- Pentecostal 2.8%
- Uniting Church 1.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 35.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Aboriginal traditional 2.6%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- Other religious groups 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 Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/70205/katherine/topic/religion