43.0% ▲ +85.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 43.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Echuca · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Echuca
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Echuca report having no religion, marking a shift in the town's spiritual landscape. While Christianity remains the most common faith, the number of residents without a religious affiliation is now well above the national figure.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Almost 43% of residents have no religion, which is well above the figures for both Victoria and Australia. For those with a faith, Christianity is the most common at 48%, followed by smaller groups of Buddhists (0.7%) and Hindus (0.6%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →Echuca splits fairly evenly between Christianity (48%) and No religion (43%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- Catholic 21.8%
- Anglican 12.4%
- Uniting Church 6.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.5%
- Other Christian 2.5%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Pentecostal 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 42.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- Sikhism 0.1%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
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 Echuca [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20838/echuca/topic/religion