45.8% ▲ +80.7%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Newtown · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Newtown
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Newtown report having no religion, making it a place where secular views are much more common than in the rest of the country. This trend is clear in the local data, with 45.8% of residents identifying as non-religious.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 46.9% of people identify as Christians, those with no religion make up 45.8% of the area. This is well above the national figure of 38.9% and the Queensland figure of 41.2%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Newtown splits fairly evenly between Christianity (47%) and No religion (46%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- Catholic 17.3%
- Anglican 14.0%
- Other Christian 5.8%
- Uniting Church 4.6%
- Pentecostal 1.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.7%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 45.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.7%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32138/newtown/topic/religion