45.0% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Mafeking · Suburb / Locality
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A gap of over 6 percentage points separates Mafeking from the national average in its lack of religious affiliation. Nearly half of the population identifies as having no religion, creating a local landscape where non-belief is just as common as Christianity.
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 45% of residents report no religion, which is well above the figures for Victoria and Australia. This matches the 45% of the community who still identify as Christian.
45.0% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Mafeking splits fairly evenly between Christianity (43%) and No religion (43%), with Not stated at 14%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Religion in Mafeking [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21570/mafeking/topic/religion