41.6% ▲ +113.7%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
West Gosford · Suburb / Locality
Religion in West Gosford
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far more people in West Gosford now report having no religion than they did in previous censuses. This shift is clear in the latest data, where 41.6% of residents identify as non-religious, making it more secular than the state average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 45.0%, while 41.6% of people have no religion, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2%. Other groups include Hinduism at 1.9% and Buddhism at 1.6%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →West Gosford splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (42%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- Catholic 17.3%
- Anglican 13.1%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Other Christian 2.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.9%
- Orthodox 1.7%
- Baptist 1.4%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
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- No religion 41.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.7%
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- Sikhism 0.6%
- Other religious groups 0.3%
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 West Gosford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14261/west-gosford/topic/religion