32.3% ▲ +70.8%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Mortdale · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Mortdale
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A shift toward secularism has seen the number of people with no religion grow since 2011 in Mortdale. Half of the population still identifies as Christian, while about a third of residents now report no religious affiliation.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Roughly 32.3% of people here have no religion, which is lower than in most similar areas and well below the national figure of 38.9%. Christians make up 49.9% of the population, followed by Hindus at 5.5%, Buddhists at 3.3%, and Muslims at 2.5%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Mortdale, the largest group is Christianity at 50%, followed by No religion (32%) and Not stated (6%).
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- Catholic 23.1%
- Orthodox 9.2%
- Anglican 8.7%
- Other Christian 4.3%
- Baptist 1.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.2%
- Uniting Church 0.9%
- Pentecostal 0.7%
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- No religion 31.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 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 Mortdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12739/mortdale/topic/religion