46.7% ▲ +82.0%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 46.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
The Gap · Suburb / Locality
Religion in The Gap
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the population in The Gap reports having no religion, which is a much higher figure than the national average. This shift towards secularism is a key feature of the area's social landscape, where 46.7% of people now identify 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 46.7% of the community, which is well above the 38.9% national figure. Other faiths are less common, with Hinduism and Buddhism each accounting for around 1% of residents.
Religious affiliation
View on map →The Gap splits fairly evenly between Christianity (47%) and No religion (47%), with Not stated at 4%.
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- Catholic 23.8%
- Anglican 10.3%
- Uniting Church 4.2%
- Other Christian 3.2%
- Baptist 1.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.9%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.8%
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- No religion 46.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- 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 The Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32790/the-gap/topic/religion