50.8% ▲ +49.8%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 46.7%
- 2021: 50.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Box Hill · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Box Hill
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than half of residents in Box Hill report having no religion, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This shift makes the suburb stand out, as 50.8% of the population identifies as non-religious.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The proportion of people with no religion is far above the national and state figures, which both sit around 39%. Among those with a faith, Christianity is the most common at 23.7%, followed by Buddhism at 9% and Hinduism at 4.5%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Box Hill, No religion is the majority at 51%; Christianity is next at 24%.
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- No religion 50.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Catholic 10.2%
- Other Christian 4.1%
- Anglican 3.2%
- Baptist 2.0%
- Uniting Church 1.6%
- Orthodox 1.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.8%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
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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 Box Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20314/box-hill/topic/religion