40.6% ▲ +51.6%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Lyons · Suburb / Locality
Religion in Lyons
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A gap of 3.6 percentage points separates Lyons from the wider territory in terms of secularism. While 40.6% of people here report no religion, this is well below the Australian Capital Territory average. The area shows a diverse mix of faiths, with a significant number of residents identifying as Hindu or Buddhist.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 40.6% of residents have no religion, which is a little above the national figure of 38.9%. Other common affiliations include Christianity at 33.8%, Hinduism at 8.7%, Buddhism at 6.2%, and Islam at 3.0%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Lyons, the largest group is No religion at 41%, followed by Christianity (34%) and Hinduism (9%).
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- No religion 40.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 17.0%
- Anglican 7.0%
- Other Christian 4.1%
- Uniting Church 1.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.7%
- Orthodox 1.6%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Pentecostal 0.1%
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- Sikhism 1.1%
- Other religious groups 0.4%
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 Lyons [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80087/lyons/topic/religion