38.6% ▲ +155.9%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 38.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Rutherford · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Rutherford
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than a third of people in Rutherford now report having no religion, reflecting a shift seen across the country. While 52.8% of the community still identify as Christians, the proportion of those without a faith has grown to 38.6%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
People with no religion make up 38.6% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2% and about the same as the national average.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Rutherford, Christianity is the majority at 53%; No religion is next at 39%.
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- Catholic 22.5%
- Anglican 19.5%
- Other Christian 3.5%
- Uniting Church 3.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Baptist 1.3%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 38.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 0.4%
- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
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 Rutherford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13464/rutherford/topic/religion