41.3% ▲ +64.3%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 41.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Cooktown · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Cooktown
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A little more than 41% of people in Cooktown report having no religion, which is slightly above the national figure. This reflects a split community where those with no faith and those identifying as Christian make up the vast majority of the population.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
People with no religion make up 41.3% of the area, a figure about the same as the Queensland average. Christians follow closely at 39.8%, while Buddhism (0.7%) and Hinduism (0.4%) are less common.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Cooktown splits fairly evenly between No religion (41%) and Christianity (40%), with Not stated at 18%.
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- No religion 40.5%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Catholic 12.3%
- Other Christian 11.4%
- Anglican 9.7%
- Uniting Church 1.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.7%
- Baptist 1.7%
- Pentecostal 1.5%
- Orthodox 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30675/cooktown/topic/religion