32.8% ▲ +18.4%
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2021: 32.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Thornlie (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Religion in Thornlie (East Metropolitan)
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far fewer people report having no religion in Thornlie compared to most similar areas. While 32.8% of residents identify as non-religious, this is well below the national figure of 38.9%. The area remains more religious than the typical Australian suburb.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 39.6%, followed by Islam at 11.8%. Although the share of people with no religion rose 5.1 percentage points since 2011, it remains far below the Western Australian figure of 42.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Thornlie (East Metropolitan), the largest group is Christianity at 40%, followed by No religion (33%) and Islam (12%).
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- Catholic 17.4%
- Anglican 8.4%
- Other Christian 6.7%
- Baptist 2.5%
- Pentecostal 1.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.4%
- Uniting Church 1.2%
- Orthodox 0.7%
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- No religion 32.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 1.8%
- 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 Thornlie (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED55202/thornlie/topic/religion