46.5% ▲ +40.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 46.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Upper Orara · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Upper Orara
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Upper Orara report having no religion, a figure far higher than the state and national averages. This shift toward non-religious identities is the defining feature of the area's spiritual landscape.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Those with no religion make up 46.5% of residents, which is 13 percentage points higher than the New South Wales figure. Christianity is the next most common affiliation at 41.8%, while Buddhism and other religions each account for 0.3%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Upper Orara splits fairly evenly between No religion (47%) and Christianity (42%), with Not stated at 11%.
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- No religion 46.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.6%
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- Anglican 10.8%
- Catholic 10.6%
- Other Christian 9.4%
- Pentecostal 3.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.1%
- Uniting Church 3.0%
- Baptist 0.8%
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- Sikhism 0.5%
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 Upper Orara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14059/upper-orara/topic/religion