43.6% ▲ +130.8%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Ipswich · State Electorate
Religion in Ipswich
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A shift away from faith is shaping daily life in Ipswich, where the number of people reporting no religion has climbed by 25 percentage points since 2011. Now, 43.6% of the population identifies as non-religious, making it one of the most striking changes in the area's social makeup.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common faith at 46.3%, though the 43.6% who claim no religion is well above the national figure of 38.9%. Other faiths are less common, with Hinduism at 0.8% and Buddhism at 0.6%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Ipswich splits fairly evenly between Christianity (46%) and No religion (44%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- Catholic 17.7%
- Anglican 10.9%
- Other Christian 7.3%
- Uniting Church 4.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.1%
- Baptist 1.9%
- Pentecostal 1.7%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 43.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.5%
- 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 Ipswich [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30037/ipswich/topic/religion