44.7% ▲ +99.2%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 44.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Darling Downs · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Darling Downs
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A much higher share of people in Darling Downs identify as having no religion compared to the national average. Nearly 45% of the population report no religious affiliation, which is well above the Australian figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 47.7% of residents are Christians, 44.7% have no religion, a figure a little above the Western Australian average. Other faiths are less common, with Hinduism at 1.0% and Islam at 0.7%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Darling Downs splits fairly evenly between Christianity (48%) and No religion (45%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- Catholic 16.8%
- Anglican 15.3%
- Other Christian 5.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 5.2%
- Baptist 1.7%
- Uniting Church 1.4%
- Pentecostal 1.4%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 44.7%
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- Sikhism 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 Darling Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50389/darling-downs/topic/religion