42.5% ▲ +551.6%
Higher than 53% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Lismore · State Electorate
Religion in Lismore
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Lismore sits around the middle of similar areas for its religious makeup, though it has a notably high number of people with no faith. This shift is striking, as the proportion of residents reporting no religion has soared from just 6.5% in 2011 to 42.5% today.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Nearly 43% of residents identify as Christian and 42.5% have no religion, a figure well above the national mark of 38.9%. Other faiths are less common, with Buddhism at 1.2%, other religions at 1.1%, and Hinduism at 0.8%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Lismore splits fairly evenly between Christianity (43%) and No religion (43%), with Not stated at 11%.
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- Catholic 17.3%
- Anglican 12.4%
- Other Christian 4.9%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.4%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
- Baptist 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 41.7%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.4%
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- Other religious groups 0.8%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- Aboriginal traditional 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 Lismore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10045/lismore/topic/religion