45.3% ▲ +55.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 37.9%
- 2021: 45.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Merredin · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Merredin
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of Merredin residents report having no religion, making this a more secular community than most. While 45.3% of people claim no faith, about 40.7% still identify as Christians.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
At 45.3%, the share of people with no religion is well above the national figure of 38.9%. Other faiths are far less common, with Buddhism and Islam each representing around 0.5% of the population.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Merredin splits fairly evenly between No religion (45%) and Christianity (41%), with Not stated at 12%.
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- No religion 44.9%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 16.3%
- Anglican 11.6%
- Other Christian 8.1%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.6%
- Baptist 0.5%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- Sikhism 0.2%
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 Merredin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50938/merredin/topic/religion