36.8% ▲ +119.7%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Surfers Paradise · State Electorate
Religion in Surfers Paradise
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Fewer people in Surfers Paradise identify as having no religion compared to the state and national figures. While Christianity remains the most common faith for 45.1% of the population, the number of residents reporting no religion has surged by 20 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 36.8% of people here have no religion, which is well below the Queensland figure of 41.2% and a little below the Australian average. Other faiths include Hinduism at 2.0% and Buddhism at 1.8%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Surfers Paradise, the largest group is Christianity at 45%, followed by No religion (37%) and Not stated (12%).
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- Catholic 21.5%
- Anglican 12.2%
- Other Christian 3.8%
- Uniting Church 2.5%
- Orthodox 2.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.8%
- Baptist 0.7%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
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- No religion 36.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Sikhism 0.7%
- Other religious groups 0.5%
- 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 Surfers Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30082/surfers-paradise/topic/religion