48.5% ▲ +279.6%
Higher than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 48.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Cooper · State Electorate
Religion in Cooper
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the population in Cooper identifies as having no religion. This is the most common response for the area, marking a significant shift in the local spiritual landscape over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Almost 48.5% of residents now report no religion, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen by 36 percentage points since 2011. This group is much larger than in most other areas, while 43.7% of the community identifies as Christian.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Cooper splits fairly evenly between No religion (48%) and Christianity (44%), with Not stated at 5%.
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- No religion 47.7%
- Secular beliefs 0.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 24.5%
- Anglican 9.3%
- Uniting Church 3.1%
- Other Christian 2.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.6%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Orthodox 0.8%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
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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 Cooper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30023/cooper/topic/religion