27.2% ▲ +144.2%
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Unclassified · State Electorate
Religion in Unclassified
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A significant 16 percentage point rise in people claiming no religion has occurred in Unclassified (OT). This shift brings the area's non-religious population to 27.2%, though this remains far below the national figure.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 29.8%, followed by Islam at 16% and Buddhism at 5.6%. While the number of people with no religion rose sharply since 2011, it is still much lower than in most other Australian areas.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Unclassified splits fairly evenly between Christianity (30%) and No religion (27%), with Not stated at 20%.
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- Anglican 12.0%
- Catholic 8.3%
- Uniting Church 3.9%
- Other Christian 2.9%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.9%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.1%
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- No religion 27.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.1%
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 Unclassified [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED99191/unclassified/topic/religion