44.6% ▲ +105.8%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 44.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Cardiff · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Cardiff
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Almost half of all residents in Cardiff now report having no religion, a figure well above the national average. This shift means a growing number of people here live without a formal faith, though Christianity remains the most common affiliation.
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%. Christians are the largest group at 46.6%, while those practicing Hinduism, Buddhism, or other faiths each account for less than 1%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Cardiff splits fairly evenly between Christianity (47%) and No religion (45%), with Not stated at 6%.
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- Catholic 17.4%
- Anglican 15.1%
- Other Christian 5.2%
- Uniting Church 3.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.8%
- Baptist 1.8%
- Pentecostal 1.7%
- Orthodox 0.6%
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- No religion 44.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.6%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.1%
- 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 Cardiff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10808/cardiff/topic/religion