47.7% ▲ +83.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 47.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Balgowlah · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Balgowlah
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of all residents in Balgowlah report having no religion, a figure far above the state average. This shift makes the area significantly less religious than most other parts of New South Wales and Australia.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Almost 47.7% of people here have no religion, which is 14 percentage points higher than the New South Wales figure. The remaining population is mostly Christian at 45.4%, while Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism each account for about 1% or less.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Balgowlah splits fairly evenly between No religion (48%) and Christianity (45%), with Not stated at 4%.
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- No religion 47.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Catholic 23.0%
- Anglican 14.3%
- Other Christian 2.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.9%
- Orthodox 1.4%
- Uniting Church 1.3%
- Baptist 0.6%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
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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 Balgowlah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10154/balgowlah/topic/religion