40.3% ▲ +114.4%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Tweed Heads West · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Tweed Heads West
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Forty per cent of people in Tweed Heads West report having no religion, making the area more secular than the state average. This shift is reflected in the local landscape, where nearly half the population still identifies as Christian while a growing number of residents now claim no faith.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 45.9%, followed by those with no religion at 40.3%, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2%. Smaller groups include Buddhists at 1.1% and Hindus at 0.8%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Tweed Heads West, the largest group is Christianity at 46%, followed by No religion (40%) and Not stated (11%).
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- Catholic 18.8%
- Anglican 14.3%
- Other Christian 4.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.0%
- Uniting Church 2.2%
- Pentecostal 1.4%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 39.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Sikhism 0.6%
- Other religious groups 0.4%
- 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 Tweed Heads West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14004/tweed-heads-west/topic/religion