38.6% ▲ +103.2%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 38.6%
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.
Religious habits in The Gap (Mount Isa - Qld) have shifted over the last decade, with more people now reporting no faith. Nearly 39% of the population now identifies as having no religion, making it a community where faith is no longer the default for many residents.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common faith at 46.3%, while 38.6% of people have no religion, a figure about the same as the national average. Other faiths are less common here, with Islam and other religions each at 0.9%, and Buddhism at 0.5%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In The Gap, the largest group is Christianity at 46%, followed by No religion (38%) and Not stated (13%).
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- Catholic 23.7%
- Other Christian 6.7%
- Anglican 5.7%
- Uniting Church 2.8%
- Baptist 2.3%
- Pentecostal 2.1%
- Orthodox 1.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.7%
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- No religion 38.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
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- Sikhism 0.9%
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/SAL32791/the-gap/topic/religion