44.3% ▲ +149.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 44.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Maitland · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Maitland
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More people in Maitland identify as having no religion than in most similar areas. While 46.2% of the population identifies as Christian, a huge 44.3% say they have no religion, which is far higher than the New South Wales figure.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Nearly half of residents (44.3%) report no religion, a figure well above the 38.9% national average. Other groups are much smaller, with 1.1% identifying as Muslim and 0.7% each for Hinduism and other religions.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Maitland splits fairly evenly between Christianity (46%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 6%.
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- Catholic 20.4%
- Anglican 15.8%
- Other Christian 3.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.1%
- Uniting Church 2.0%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.4%
- Pentecostal 0.3%
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- No religion 43.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.5%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
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- Other religious groups 0.6%
- Sikhism 0.4%
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 Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12458/maitland/topic/religion