47.7% ▲ +111.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 47.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Adamstown · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Adamstown
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the population in Adamstown now reports having no religion, a figure that has climbed significantly over the last decade. This shift has made the area's lack of religious affiliation far more common than it is across the rest of the state.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 47.7% of people here have no religion, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 33.2%. Those with a religious faith are mostly Christian at 44.4%, followed by smaller groups of Hindus (1.0%), Buddhists (0.7%) and Muslims (0.5%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →Adamstown splits fairly evenly between No religion (48%) and Christianity (44%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- No religion 47.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 21.1%
- Anglican 11.1%
- Other Christian 3.9%
- Uniting Church 2.8%
- Orthodox 2.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.4%
- Baptist 1.0%
- Pentecostal 1.0%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- 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 Adamstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10016/adamstown/topic/religion