45.8% ▲ +71.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wonthaggi · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Wonthaggi
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly 46% of people in Wonthaggi report having no religion, which is well above the national figure. This shift makes a lack of religious affiliation the most common response for the area, edging out Christianity.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 45.8% of residents claim no religion, a figure well above the 39.3% seen across Victoria. Christianity follows closely at 43.4%, while Buddhism is the next most common faith at 1.1%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Wonthaggi splits fairly evenly between No religion (46%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- No religion 45.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 19.3%
- Anglican 11.5%
- Other Christian 3.6%
- Uniting Church 3.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.3%
- Baptist 2.1%
- Pentecostal 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- Other religious groups 0.5%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.1%
- Sikhism 0.1%
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 Wonthaggi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22829/wonthaggi/topic/religion