46.7% ▲ +96.8%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 46.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Merewether · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Merewether
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far more people in Merewether claim no religion than in most other areas. Nearly half the population, or 46.7%, do not identify with any faith, making the area significantly less religious than the rest of the state.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 46.9% of residents identify as Christians, those with no religion make up 46.7% of the population. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 33.2% and well above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Merewether splits fairly evenly between Christianity (47%) and No religion (47%), with Not stated at 4%.
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- Catholic 23.2%
- Anglican 13.4%
- Uniting Church 3.0%
- Other Christian 2.7%
- Orthodox 1.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.7%
- Baptist 0.6%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
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- No religion 46.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- 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 Merewether [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12584/merewether/topic/religion