Gympie · State Electorate

Religion in Gympie

Name: Religion in Gympie — 2021 Census
Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics
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What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.

Christianity is the most common faith in Gympie, where 45.2% of people identify with the religion. However, the number of people reporting no religion has climbed sharply over the last decade. This shift means nearly half the population now identifies as non-religious.

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📍 Gympie, State Electorate

Religious affiliation

The mix of religions, and people with no religion.

People with no religion make up 44.0% of the population, a figure that is well above the Australian average and has risen by 18 points since 2011. Other faiths are less common here, with Buddhism at 0.7% and Islam at 0.2%.

Religious affiliation

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Gympie splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 9%.

Christianity 45%
- Catholic 13.2%
- Anglican 13.0%
- Other Christian 8.0%
- Uniting Church 6.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Baptist 1.6%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
- Orthodox 0.2%
No religion 44%
- No religion 43.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
Not stated 9%
Buddhism 1%
Other religions 1%
- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.1%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
Islam 0%
Hinduism 0%
Judaism 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 Gympie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30032/gympie/topic/religion