41.6% ▲ +102.9%
Lower than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wallsend · State Electorate
Religion in Wallsend
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Wallsend sits around the middle of similar areas for its religious makeup. While 46.6% of residents identify as Christian, those with no religion now make up 41.6% of the population.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The proportion of people with no religion has risen by 21 percentage points since 2011, reaching 41.6%. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2% and a little above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Wallsend, the largest group is Christianity at 47%, followed by No religion (42%) and Not stated (6%).
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- Catholic 18.5%
- Anglican 13.3%
- Other Christian 5.3%
- Uniting Church 3.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.8%
- Baptist 1.8%
- Orthodox 1.5%
- Pentecostal 1.2%
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- No religion 41.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- 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 Wallsend [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10089/wallsend/topic/religion