36.2% ▲ +85.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Lightning Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Lightning Ridge
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A gap of 3 percentage points separates Lightning Ridge from the state average in the number of people with no religion. Christianity remains the most common faith here, though over a third of the population does not identify with any religious group.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 39.1% of residents identify as Christians, while 36.2% have no religion. This latter figure is well above the New South Wales average of 33.2%, but sits a little below the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Lightning Ridge splits fairly evenly between Christianity (39%) and No religion (36%), with Not stated at 22%.
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- Catholic 15.2%
- Anglican 13.9%
- Other Christian 4.3%
- Orthodox 2.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.4%
- Uniting Church 0.9%
- Baptist 0.6%
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- No religion 36.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.5%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
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- Aboriginal traditional 0.3%
- Other religious groups 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 Lightning Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12329/lightning-ridge/topic/religion