54.4% ▲ +73.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 54.4%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Thornbury · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Thornbury
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A far higher proportion of people in Thornbury identify as having no religion compared to the rest of the country. More than half the population, or 54.4%, now report no religious affiliation, which is 16 percentage points above the national figure.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The most common response is no religion at 54.4%, a figure far above the 39.3% seen across Victoria. Other common affiliations include Christianity at 34.9%, Islam at 2.1%, Buddhism at 1.7% and Hinduism at 1.1%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Thornbury, No religion is the majority at 54%; Christianity is next at 35%.
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- No religion 53.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.8%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Catholic 17.8%
- Orthodox 10.5%
- Anglican 2.5%
- Other Christian 2.1%
- Uniting Church 0.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.5%
- Baptist 0.4%
- Pentecostal 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- 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 Thornbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22508/thornbury/topic/religion