34.5% ▲ +108.5%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Goulburn · State Electorate
Religion in Goulburn
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than half of Goulburn residents, 54.6%, identify as Christians. While the number of people claiming no religion has risen sharply to 34.5% since 2011, this figure remains well below the national average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The proportion of people with no religion is much lower than in most similar areas, though it is a little above the New South Wales figure. Other faiths are less common here, with Buddhism and Hinduism each making up 0.7% of the population.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Goulburn, Christianity is the majority at 55%; No religion is next at 35%.
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- Catholic 23.5%
- Anglican 20.1%
- Other Christian 3.7%
- Uniting Church 3.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.9%
- Baptist 1.0%
- Orthodox 0.7%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
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- No religion 34.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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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 Goulburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10031/goulburn/topic/religion