40.9% ▲ +100.6%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Buxton · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Buxton
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
About half of the people in Buxton identify with a religion, placing the area around the middle for its level compared to similar places. While Christianity remains the most common faith, a large portion of the population now reports having no religion.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Half of residents are Christian, while 40.9% report no religion—a figure well above the New South Wales rate of 33.2%. Other faiths are less common, with Buddhism at 0.8%, other religions at 0.4%, and Islam at 0.2%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Buxton, Christianity is the majority at 50%; No religion is next at 41%.
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- Catholic 21.9%
- Anglican 21.1%
- Other Christian 2.5%
- Uniting Church 2.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.2%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Orthodox 0.5%
- Pentecostal 0.2%
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- No religion 40.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.7%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
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 Buxton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10724/buxton/topic/religion