40.9% ▲ +67.5%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wollongong · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Wollongong
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A gap of 7.7 percentage points separates Wollongong from the state average in terms of non-religious residents. About 40.9% of people here claim no religion, which is a little above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 40.9% of people have no religion, Christianity remains the most common faith at 42.0%. Other groups include Islam at 4.3%, Hinduism at 2.6%, and Buddhism at 2.3%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Wollongong splits fairly evenly between Christianity (42%) and No religion (41%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- Catholic 18.2%
- Anglican 8.5%
- Orthodox 6.1%
- Other Christian 4.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.5%
- Uniting Church 1.4%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
- Baptist 0.8%
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- No religion 40.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.6%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.4%
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 Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14376/wollongong/topic/religion