47.9% ▲ +76.0%
Higher than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 47.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Blue Mountains · State Electorate
Religion in Blue Mountains
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in the Blue Mountains report having no religion, making it a far more secular area than most of the state. This shift is striking, as the number of people with no religious affiliation has jumped by 21 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 47.9% of residents have no religion, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 33.2% and well above the national average. Christianity is the next most common affiliation at 43.4%, followed by Buddhism at 1.5%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Blue Mountains splits fairly evenly between No religion (48%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 6%.
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- No religion 47.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.4%
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- Catholic 16.8%
- Anglican 13.3%
- Other Christian 5.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Baptist 2.1%
- Uniting Church 2.1%
- Pentecostal 1.0%
- Orthodox 0.8%
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- Other religious groups 0.7%
- Sikhism 0.0%
- 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 Blue Mountains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10011/blue-mountains/topic/religion