44.8% ▲ +82.5%
Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 44.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Bega · State Electorate
Religion in Bega
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A higher share of people in Bega report having no religion compared to most similar areas. This trend has grown quickly over the last decade, with the proportion of non-religious residents jumping 20 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 44.8% of people here have no religion, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 33.2%. This group is now slightly larger than those who identify as Christians, who make up 44.3% of the population.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Bega splits fairly evenly between No religion (45%) and Christianity (44%), with Not stated at 9%.
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- No religion 44.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Catholic 17.1%
- Anglican 16.9%
- Other Christian 3.8%
- Uniting Church 2.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.1%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
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 Bega [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10009/bega/topic/religion