39.3% —
Lower than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Yan Yean (Northern Victoria) · State Electorate
Religion in Yan Yean (Northern Victoria)
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Faith and belief are diverse in Yan Yean, where 44.2% of people identify as Christians. The area's spiritual landscape is shifting, as the number of people reporting no religion rose by 5.7 percentage points since 2016.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Almost 40% of residents now report no religion, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages. While Christianity remains the most common faith, other groups include Hindus at 4.0%, those of other religions at 3.1%, and Muslims at 2.8%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Yan Yean (Northern Victoria) splits fairly evenly between Christianity (44%) and No religion (39%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- Catholic 23.6%
- Anglican 6.7%
- Other Christian 4.7%
- Orthodox 4.1%
- Uniting Church 1.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.3%
- Pentecostal 1.2%
- Baptist 1.0%
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- No religion 38.9%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 2.7%
- Other religious groups 0.4%
- 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 Yan Yean (Northern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED28704/yan-yean/topic/religion