43.9% ▲ +132.1%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 43.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Glendale · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Glendale
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A shift towards secularism is clear in Glendale, where 43.9% of residents now report having no religion. This is well above the national figure of 38.9% and far higher than the New South Wales average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 48.6% of people identify as Christian, the proportion of those with no religion is much higher here than in most other areas. Other faiths are less common, with Islam at 1.1% and Buddhism at 0.6%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Glendale splits fairly evenly between Christianity (49%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- Catholic 19.0%
- Anglican 13.8%
- Other Christian 5.0%
- Uniting Church 4.1%
- Baptist 2.4%
- Pentecostal 1.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.5%
- Orthodox 1.0%
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- No religion 43.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Sikhism 0.3%
- Other religious groups 0.2%
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 Glendale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11662/glendale/topic/religion