41.9% ▲ +92.5%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Mount Pleasant · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Mount Pleasant
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
About 42% of people in Mount Pleasant report having no religion, placing the area around the middle for its level compared to similar places. This makes it a little more secular than the national figure, with roughly half of the population still identifying as Christian.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Nearly half of residents (49.6%) identify as Christian, while 41.9% have no religion, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2%. Other faiths are less common, including Islam at 1.6%, Hinduism at 1.4% and Buddhism at 0.6%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Mount Pleasant, the largest group is Christianity at 50%, followed by No religion (42%) and Not stated (5%).
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- Catholic 22.1%
- Anglican 10.6%
- Other Christian 6.8%
- Orthodox 4.8%
- Uniting Church 2.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.5%
- Baptist 0.9%
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- No religion 41.8%
- Secular beliefs 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 Mount Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12795/mount-pleasant/topic/religion