44.5% ▲ +111.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 44.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
East Ballina · Suburb / Locality
Religion in East Ballina
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A much higher share of people in East Ballina report having no religion compared to the state average. Nearly 45% of the population identifies as non-religious, which is a far more common trend here than in the rest of New South Wales.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Almost 45% of residents have no religion, a figure well above the Australian average of 38.9%. This stands alongside 47.6% of the community who identify as Christians.
Religious affiliation
View on map →East Ballina splits fairly evenly between Christianity (48%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 6%.
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- Catholic 21.6%
- Anglican 15.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.5%
- Other Christian 3.3%
- Uniting Church 2.7%
- Baptist 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.5%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
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- No religion 44.0%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- 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 East Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11348/east-ballina/topic/religion