45.8% ▲ +77.7%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Heywood · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Heywood
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly 46% of people in Heywood report having no religion, a figure well above the national average. This shift toward secularism is more pronounced here than in most other similar areas. Christianity remains the second most common affiliation at 39.1%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 45.8% of residents have no religion, which is 6.9 percentage points higher than the Australian figure. Other faiths are rare here, with only 0.3% of people identifying with religions other than Christianity.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Heywood, the largest group is No religion at 46%, followed by Christianity (39%) and Not stated (15%).
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- No religion 45.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 12.0%
- Anglican 10.7%
- Uniting Church 6.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.9%
- Other Christian 3.3%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
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 Heywood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21181/heywood/topic/religion