42.9% ▲ +108.9%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Horsham · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Horsham
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly 43% of people in Horsham report having no religion, making it more likely for residents here to be non-religious than in the rest of Victoria or Australia. This shift reflects a wider trend toward secularism, though Christianity remains the most common affiliation for almost half the population.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 47.8%, while 42.9% of people have no religion, which is well above the national figure of 38.9%. Other groups are small, with Hinduism at 1.0%, Buddhism at 0.6%, and Islam at 0.5%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Horsham splits fairly evenly between Christianity (48%) and No religion (43%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- Catholic 14.3%
- Other Christian 11.1%
- Uniting Church 10.5%
- Anglican 8.2%
- Pentecostal 1.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.3%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 42.6%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Sikhism 0.2%
- 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 Horsham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21206/horsham/topic/religion