13.8% ▲ +116.9%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Bankstown · State Electorate
Religion in Bankstown
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More people in Bankstown have claimed no religion since 2011, though this group remains small. The area is deeply religious, with 33.4% of people identifying as Christian and 32.0% as Muslim.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Only 13.8% of people have no religion, a figure far below the national level of 38.9%. While this is among the lowest proportions for similar areas, the number of people with no religion did rise by 7.4 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Bankstown splits fairly evenly between Christianity (33%) and Islam (32%), with No religion at 14%.
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- Catholic 18.1%
- Orthodox 5.6%
- Other Christian 3.7%
- Anglican 2.8%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Uniting Church 0.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.8%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
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- No religion 13.6%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.1%
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 Bankstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10005/bankstown/topic/religion