57.4% ▲ +50.5%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.1%
- 2016: 48.4%
- 2021: 57.4%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Castlemaine · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Castlemaine
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More people here have no religion than in almost any other similar area, with 57.4% of the population reporting no faith. This makes Castlemaine significantly less religious than the typical Victorian or Australian community.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
At 57.4%, the share of people with no religion is far above the Victorian figure of 39.3% and the national figure of 38.9%. Those who do identify with a faith are mostly Christian at 23.8%, while Buddhism accounts for 1.3%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Castlemaine, No religion is the majority at 57%; Christianity is next at 24%.
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- No religion 56.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.6%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.4%
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- Anglican 7.3%
- Catholic 7.3%
- Uniting Church 3.9%
- Other Christian 3.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.1%
- Baptist 0.5%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.5%
- Sikhism 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 Castlemaine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20516/castlemaine/topic/religion