28.8% ▲ +103.3%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Ruse · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Ruse
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than half of the people in Ruse identify as Christian, which helps explain why the area has a much lower rate of people with no religion than the national average. Over 56% of residents follow a Christian faith, making it the dominant religious group in the community.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The proportion of people reporting no religion is 28.8%, which is far below the Australian figure of 38.9% and well below New South Wales. Other religious groups include Islam at 6.4%, while Buddhism and Hinduism both stand at 1.3%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Ruse, Christianity is the majority at 57%; No religion is next at 29%.
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- Catholic 27.8%
- Anglican 16.4%
- Other Christian 5.3%
- Orthodox 2.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.5%
- Uniting Church 1.4%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
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- No religion 28.5%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.6%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- Aboriginal traditional 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 Ruse [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13458/ruse/topic/religion