42.2% ▲ +88.1%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 42.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Blaxland · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Blaxland
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than four in ten people in Blaxland report having no religion, a figure well above the national average. While Christianity remains the most common faith, the area shows a significant shift away from traditional religious affiliation compared to the rest of the state.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Around 42.2% of residents claim no religion, which is 9.0 percentage points higher than in New South Wales. Christianity is still the most common affiliation at 51.7%, followed by smaller groups of Buddhists (0.6%), Hindus (0.5%) and other religions (0.6%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Blaxland, Christianity is the majority at 52%; No religion is next at 42%.
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- Catholic 19.5%
- Anglican 15.7%
- Other Christian 6.4%
- Uniting Church 2.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.5%
- Baptist 2.5%
- Pentecostal 1.8%
- Orthodox 0.8%
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- No religion 41.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.6%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.6%
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 Blaxland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10406/blaxland/topic/religion