38.8% ▲ +109.6%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Virginia · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Virginia
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A variety of faiths shape the daily lives of people in Virginia, where 40.3% identify as Christians. While a significant portion of the population holds no religious faith, the community is more diverse in its beliefs than the state average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 38.8% of residents have no religion, which is about the same as the national figure but well below South Australia's 45.8%. Buddhism is also prominent here at 8.6%, alongside smaller groups of people practicing Islam and other faiths.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Virginia splits fairly evenly between Christianity (40%) and No religion (39%), with Buddhism at 9%.
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- Catholic 19.7%
- Orthodox 7.7%
- Anglican 4.6%
- Other Christian 3.2%
- Uniting Church 3.0%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.5%
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- No religion 38.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 1.7%
- 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 Virginia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41507/virginia/topic/religion