44.0% ▲ +104.3%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Coolangatta · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Coolangatta
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the population in Coolangatta identifies as having no religion, with 44% of residents reporting no faith. This makes the area significantly less religious than the national average, reflecting a broader shift away from traditional beliefs.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Forty-four per cent of people here have no religion, which is well above the Australian figure of 38.9%. Those who do have a faith are mostly Christian at 44.8%, followed by small numbers of Buddhists at 1.4% and Hindus at 0.4%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Coolangatta splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 9%.
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- Catholic 19.2%
- Anglican 13.8%
- Other Christian 3.9%
- Uniting Church 2.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.6%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Orthodox 0.7%
- Pentecostal 0.7%
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- No religion 43.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.4%
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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 Coolangatta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30680/coolangatta/topic/religion