44.6% ▲ +95.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 44.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Bega · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Bega
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Bega identify as having no religion, making it a less religious place than most of the state. This shift is reflected in the local landscape, where the absence of faith is now more common than any single religious group.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Those with no religion make up 44.6% of the population, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 33.2%. Christianity is also common at 43.1%, while Buddhism and Hinduism account for 1.1% and 0.5% respectively.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Bega splits fairly evenly between No religion (45%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 10%.
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- No religion 43.8%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
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- Anglican 17.0%
- Catholic 16.8%
- Other Christian 4.8%
- Uniting Church 2.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.2%
- Baptist 0.6%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
- Orthodox 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.1%
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 Bega [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10253/bega/topic/religion