24.7% ▲ +34.5%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Cannington · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Cannington
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Only 24.7% of people in Cannington report having no religion, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area stand out as being much more religious than most other parts of the country.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 29%, followed by Islam at 12.2% and Hinduism at 8.4%. The proportion of people with no religion is far below the Western Australian figure of 42.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Cannington splits fairly evenly between Christianity (29%) and No religion (25%), with Islam at 12%.
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- Catholic 15.3%
- Other Christian 5.0%
- Anglican 3.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.4%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Uniting Church 1.1%
- Pentecostal 1.0%
- Orthodox 0.8%
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- No religion 24.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
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- Sikhism 10.3%
- Other religious groups 0.6%
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 Cannington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50246/cannington/topic/religion