50.5% ▲ +24.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 50.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Hay · Suburb / Locality
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A growing number of residents in Hay now claim no religious faith, with 50.5% of the population falling into this group. This shift makes the area's lack of religious affiliation far more common than the national figure.
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
More than half the population reports no religion, a figure well above the 42.9% seen across Western Australia. Those who do identify with a faith are mostly Christian (33.5%), while 3.2% are Buddhist.
50.5% ▲ +24.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
In Hay, No religion is the majority at 51%; Christianity is next at 33%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Religion in Hay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50618/hay/topic/religion