37.7% ▲ +102.3%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Ballina · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Ballina
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Over half of the people in Ballina identify as Christians, shaping a local landscape where traditional faith and a growing number of non-religious residents coexist. This balance reflects a community that is slightly more secular than the state average but remains more religious than the national trend.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Half of the population (50.1%) are Christian, while 37.7% report no religion, which is well above the New South Wales figure. Other faiths are less common, with Buddhism, Hinduism, and other religions each making up about 1% of the area.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Ballina, Christianity is the majority at 50%; No religion is next at 38%.
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- Catholic 20.2%
- Anglican 17.6%
- Other Christian 3.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.6%
- Uniting Church 3.2%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 37.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 0.7%
- Other religious groups 0.1%
- 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 Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10163/ballina/topic/religion