41.5% ▲ +85.4%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Forest Hill · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Forest Hill
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith in Forest Hill, where 43.7% of people identify with the religion. The area has a significant proportion of residents with no faith, which is well above the state figure.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 41.5% of residents have no religion, a figure that is a little above the national average and well above the New South Wales figure. Other faith groups are small, with Hinduism at 1.9% and Buddhism at 1.1%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Forest Hill splits fairly evenly between Christianity (44%) and No religion (41%), with Not stated at 11%.
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- Catholic 18.8%
- Anglican 12.4%
- Other Christian 5.1%
- Uniting Church 2.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.3%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Pentecostal 1.0%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- No religion 41.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.3%
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 Forest Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11547/forest-hill/topic/religion