33.0% ▲ +63.9%
Lower than 80% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Northern Territory - Outback · Region (SA4)
Religion in Northern Territory - Outback
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Northern Territory - Outback identify as Christians, making it a more religious region than most of the country. While those with no religion have grown to 33.0%, this remains well below the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 46.7%, while 33.0% of people report no religion. This last group has grown by 13 percentage points since 2011, though the figure is still much lower than the 38.5% seen across the Northern Territory.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Northern Territory - Outback, the largest group is Christianity at 47%, followed by No religion (33%) and Not stated (13%).
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- Catholic 15.0%
- Other Christian 12.7%
- Anglican 6.3%
- Uniting Church 6.1%
- Baptist 4.1%
- Pentecostal 1.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 32.6%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Aboriginal traditional 3.7%
- Sikhism 0.5%
- 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 Northern Territory - Outback [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/702/northern-territory-outback/topic/religion