43.2% ▲ +69.6%
Higher than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 43.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Bancroft · State Electorate
Religion in Bancroft
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith in Bancroft, where 45.8% of people identify with a Christian denomination. While religious views are shifting, this remains the largest group in a community where nearly half of the residents now claim no religion.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 43.2% of people here have no religion, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen by 18 percentage points since 2011. Other groups include Hinduism at 1.8%, Buddhism at 0.9%, and other religions at 1.2%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Bancroft splits fairly evenly between Christianity (46%) and No religion (43%), with Not stated at 6%.
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- Catholic 16.4%
- Anglican 11.0%
- Other Christian 8.1%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Baptist 2.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.1%
- Pentecostal 1.8%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- No religion 42.7%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 0.8%
- 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 Bancroft [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30003/bancroft/topic/religion