27.6% ▲ +35.3%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Balga · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Balga
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Faith and spiritual identity play a strong role in daily life in Balga, where far more people identify with a religion than in most other areas. This is most evident in the fact that only 27.6% of residents report having no religion.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 40.0%, while Islam is the next largest group at 10.3%. The proportion of people with no religion is far below the national figure of 38.9% and the state's 42.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Balga, the largest group is Christianity at 40%, followed by No religion (28%) and Not stated (10%).
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- Catholic 15.8%
- Other Christian 8.3%
- Anglican 5.0%
- Orthodox 4.1%
- Baptist 3.1%
- Pentecostal 2.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.9%
- Uniting Church 0.7%
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- No religion 27.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 3.1%
- Other religious groups 0.5%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
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 Balga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50055/balga/topic/religion