43.8% ▲ +95.2%
Higher than 68% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Gold Coast · Region (SA4)
Religion in Gold Coast
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far more people here identify as having no religion compared to most other areas. In the Gold Coast, 43.8% of the population describes themselves as non-religious, which is well above the national figure.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Since 2011, the number of people with no religion has risen by 21 percentage points to 43.8%. This is a little above the Queensland figure, while Christianity remains the most common faith at 43.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Gold Coast splits fairly evenly between Christianity (44%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- Catholic 18.1%
- Anglican 11.9%
- Other Christian 5.6%
- Uniting Church 2.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.0%
- Pentecostal 1.3%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Orthodox 1.1%
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- No religion 43.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
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- Sikhism 0.4%
- Other religious groups 0.4%
- 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 Gold Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/309/gold-coast/topic/religion